Motivation
The international TEAR workshop series brings together EA researchers from different research communities and provides a forum to present EA research results and to discuss future EA research directions.
The field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained considerable attention over the last of years. The understanding of the term Enterprise Architecture is diverse in both practitioner and scientific communities. Regarding the term architecture most agree on the ANSI/IEEE Standard 1471-2000, where architecture is defined as the “fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution”. For Enterprise Architecture the focus is on the overall enterprise. In contrast to traditional architecture management approaches such as IT architecture, software architecture or IS architecture, EA explicitly incorporates “pure” business-related artifacts in addition to traditional IS/IT artifacts.
EA is important because organisations need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of an enterprise, from business processes to IT support. Moreover, a change in a particular architecture may influence other architectures. For example, when a new product is introduced, business processes for production, sales and after-sales need to be adapted. It might be necessary to change applications, or even adapt the IT infrastructure. Each of these fields will have its own architectures. To keep the enterprise architecture coherent and aligned with the business goals, the relations between these different architectures must be explicit, and a change should be carried through methodically in all architectures.
In previous years the emergence of service oriented design paradigms (e.g. Service-oriented Architecture, SoA) contributed to the relevance of EA. The need to design business services and IT services and align them forced companies to pay more attention to business architectures. The growing complexity of existing application landscapes lead to increased attention to application architectures at the same time. To better align business and IS architectures a number of major companies started to establish EA efforts after introducing the service-oriented architecture style.
Until recently, practitioners, consulting firms and tool vendors have been leading in the development of the EA discipline. Research on EA has been taking place in relatively isolated communities. The main objective of this workshop series is to bring these different communities of EA researchers together and to identify future directions for EA research with special focus on service oriented paradigms. An important question in that respect is what EA researchers should do, as opposed to EA practitioners.
Location
Publication
Call for Papers
Organisers
Workshop co-chairs
- Joao Paulo Almeida,Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Chair: Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Erik Proper, Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Steering committee
- Stephan Aier / Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
- Marc M. Lankhorst, Novay Enschede, The Netherlands
- Marten Schönherr, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
- Raymond Slot, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
Submission
Papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to TEAR as described in the topics section. Papers submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. Papers are not to exceed 10 pages, including all references and figures. All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Submissions must be in English.
Collaboration with the SoEA4EE workshop
- Integrating service oriented and legacy architectures
- Service design on application and business levels
- Service orientation as EA design paradigm
- Service oriented architecture (SOA) and EA
are invited to submit these papers to the SoEA4EE workshop instead of TEAR.
Topics
- Case studies
- Combining BPM and EA
- Drivers and obstacles of EA dissemination (e.g. agility, flexibility, strategic planning, usage resistance)
- EA and e-government
- EA and organizational theory
- EA and system development
- EA business cases
- EA communication and marketing
- EA for small and medium-sized companies
- EA governance and integration into corporate/IT governance
- EA in university and executive education
- EA reference models, meta models and frameworks
- EA usage in corporate strategic planning
- EA usage potentials for the networked enterprise
- Enterprise modeling, EA and MDA
- Modeling of EA dynamics
- Event-driven architecture
- Evolution of an EA
- Incorporation of knowledge management and software engineering in EA
- Managing complexity in EA
- Maturity models for EA artifacts and processes
- Measurement, metrics, analysis, and evaluation of EA artifacts and processes
- Methodologies for EA research
- Processes and patterns for EA development, mastering, communication and enforcement
- Research theory and practices in EA context
- The relation between natural and EA modeling languages (understandability of EA models)
- Tool support for EA
- Viewpoints in EA
Program Committee
- Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Colette Rolland, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
- Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg, Germany
- Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen and Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, The Netherlands
- Florian Matthes, Technical University Munich, Germany
- Francois Habryn, KSRI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Gerhard Satzger, Karlsruhe Service Research Institute, Germany
- Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Gerold Riempp, European Business School, Germany
- Gil Regev, EPFL, Itecor, Switzerland
- Giuseppe Berio, University of South Brittany, France
- Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University, United States of America
- Marc Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands
- Martin Zelm, CIMOSA Association, Germany
- Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Matthias Goeken, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany
- Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America
- Pedro Sousa, Lisbon Technical University and Link Consulting, Portugal
- Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Rainer Schmidt, Univerity Aalen, Germany
- Selmin Nurcan – University Paris Panthéon Sorbonne, France
- Scott Bernard, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
- Tim O’Neill, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Udo Bub, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
- Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Germany
- Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel, Germany
- Wolfgang Keller, objectarchitects, Germany
- Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
