Dear colleagues,
We will be grateful to you for submitting your work and inviting your
colleagues and/or research students to submit their work to the 17th
Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise
Engineering (SoEA4EE 2026).
SoEA4EE 2026 is organised in conjunction with the 30th International
Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (EDOC) from
15 to 18 september 2026 in Enschede, Netherlands. EDOC 2026 will be
hosted by the University of Twente, being co-located with the 28th
International Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2026).
The SoEA4EE workshop (Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for
Enterprise Engineering) focuses on the paradigm of encapsulating digital
resources and capacities as services for enterprise architecture. The
workshop aims to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering
and management of service-oriented enterprise architectures (SoEA) and
the software systems supporting them in the Computing Continuum.
SoEA4EE 2026 papers will be published in a joint post-proceedings volume
for all EDOC 2026 + CBI 2026 workshops, with *Springer* under the
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (*LNBIP*) series.
Best regards,
Selmin Nurcan & Rainer Schmidt
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SoEA4EE 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS
17th International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture
for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE 2026) (you can spell 'Sophie')
in conjunction with EDOC 2026 & CBI 2026
September 15th to 18th, 2026, Enschede, Netherlands
https://conf.researchr.org/track/cbi-edoc-2026/cbi-edoc-2026-workshops
https://sites.google.com/view/soea4ee
Organisers:
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Papers submission deadline: *July 10, 2026*
Detailed Call for Papers is below.
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GOAL
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Enterprise Engineering (EE) is the application of engineering principles
to the design of Enterprise Architectures (EA). It enables deriving the
Enterprise Architecture from the enterprise goals and strategy, and
aligning it with the enterprise resources in the Computing Continuum.
Enterprise architecture maps the enterprise goal and strategy to the
enterprise’s resources (actors, assets, IT supports) and supports the
evolution of this mapping. It also provides documentation on the
assignment of enterprise resources to the enterprise goals and strategy,
e.g., for establishing new business models such as platforms and
multi-sided ecosystems.
The SoEA4EE workshop focuses on the paradigm of encapsulating digital
resources and capacities as services for enterprise architecture. The
workshop aims to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering
and management of service-oriented enterprise architectures (SoEA) and
the software systems supporting them in the Computing Continuum.
The 2026 edition places special emphasis on the transformative impact of
Agentic AI on enterprise architectures. Autonomous AI agents are
becoming active participants in business processes, capable of
negotiating, orchestrating, and consuming services across enterprise
boundaries. This raises fundamental questions about the adequacy of
existing EA notations and frameworks in a world where both human and
artificial agents shape enterprise behavior.
The SoEA4EE workshop has been conducted in collaboration with EDOC since
2009.
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TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
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During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:
1. Agentic AI and AI-Native Enterprise Architectures
- Foundation models and autonomous AI agents as
architectural components
- Multi-agent systems and inter-organizational service
orchestration
- Generative AI as a tool in Enterprise Engineering
- Trust, explainability, and accountability of AI agents in EA
2. Platform Ecosystems and Multi-Platform Networks
- Multi-platform network architectures and value creation paths
- Digital ecosystem governance
- Pervasive service ecosystems in the Computing Continuum
- Building service (value) nets consisting of business,
software, platform and infrastructure services
3. Digital Enterprises and Industry 4.0 in the Computing Continuum
- New trends in digitization for EA and EE, e.g., Industry
4.0, platforms
- Impacts of digitized products and digital twins on EA
- EA contributions and challenges for digital transformation
- Fitting SoEA with cloud, edge, and fog computing
- Context awareness and service orientation in ubiquitous
computing
- Low-code/no-code platforms and their impact on EA governance
4. SoEA and the Influence of AI, Social Information Systems, and Big Data
- Trends in SoEA leveraging AI, social information systems,
and big data (volume, variety, velocity, veracity)
- Impacts of AI, social information systems, and big data on
SoEA
- Data-driven monitoring of the fulfilment of non-functional
requirements (big data, IoT, etc.)
5. Alignment of Enterprise Goals and Strategy with SoEA
- Interdependencies between services and business goals
- Concepts and methods to align services with the business
strategy
- New potentials and trends created by services to
reengineer business processes
6. Quality, Compliance, and Sustainability
- Coherence of services with compliance requirements (GDPR,
EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, ISO 15408)
- Benchmarks and key performance indicators for services
- Approaches for the continual improvement of services
7. Design and Lifecycle of SoEA
- Specifications of business, software, platform, and
infrastructure services
- Matching business services with business processes
- Lifecycle of business, software, platform, and infrastructure
services
8. Governance of SoEA
- Impacts of SoEA on compliance and governance requirements
- Meta-services for business, software, platform, and
infrastructure services
- Impacts of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity,
Ambiguity) on the governance of EA
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SUBMISSION
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We invite contributions in three categories:
• Full papers (10–15 pages): describing mature research results.
• Short/position papers (6–10 pages): presenting emerging ideas,
recent research results, or ongoing projects to facilitate discussion.
• Industry experience reports (6–15 pages): providing new insights
gained in case studies or when applying service-oriented EA for
enterprise engineering.
The paper selection will be based on the relevance of a paper to the
main topics, its quality, and its potential to generate relevant
discussion. All contributions will be peer-reviewed based on the
complete version.
All submissions should be made in PDF format and comply with the
Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template :
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Please submit your paper via Easychair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences2/submissions?a=36125975
At least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to
register for the whole EDOC 2026 + CBI 2026 conference and attend the
workshop to present the paper.
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EXPECTED RESULTS
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SoEA4EE 2026 papers will be published in a joint post-proceedings volume
for all EDOC 2026 + CBI 2026 workshops, with Springer under the Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
The first special issue in *International Journal of Information Systems
in the Service Sector (IJISSS), *volume***7(1) January-March 2015,*
presents four papers selected from the four previous editions of
SoEA4EE, after a two-round peer review and covering a broad spectrum of
themes in Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture Engineering from
technical to conceptual and managerial themes.
https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/issue/118493
The second special issue in *International Journal of Information
Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)*, with the selected papers of the
three former SoEA4EE editions has been published in the volume *10**(3)
May 2018,* and includes four papers selected after a two-round peer review.
https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/issue/184903
A third special issue in *International Journal of Information Systems
in the Service Sector (IJISSS), *with the selected works of the last
SoEA4EE editions is being considered.
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-systems-service/1099
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop paper submission: July 10th, 2026
Workshop paper notification: July 28th, 2026
Author registration: July 31st, 2026
Workshop camera-ready paper for joint workshops LNBIP proceedings:
August 7th, 2026
Workshop date: September 15th, 2026
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ORGANISERS
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Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in progress)
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Khalid Benali - Université de Lorraine, LORIA - Inria, France
François Charoy - Université de Lorraine, LORIA - Inria, France
Ulrik Franke - Swedish Defence University, Sweden
Janis Grabis - Riga Technical University, Latvia
Mohamed Gharib - University of Tartu, Estonia
Sung-Kook Han - Won Kwang University, South Korea
Yosra Lassoued - ESEO, Paris, France
Zoran Milosevic - Deontik, Australia
Julio Cesar Nardi - Federal Institute of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Selmin Nurcan - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Henderik Proper - TU Wien, Austria
Jolita Ralyté - University of Geneva, Switzerland
Kurt Sandkuhl - University of Rostock, Germany
Rainer Schmidt - Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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The 20th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
- RCIS 2026
26-29 May, 2026, Toulouse, France
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Engineering - CAISE 2026
8-12 June, 2026, Verona, Italy
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Computing - EDOC 2026
15-18 September, 2026, Enschede, The Netherlands
https://conf.researchr.org/home/cbi-edoc-2026
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