Tools & DemosCBI & EDOC 2026

Call for Tools & Demos

Tools, in particular modelling tools, play a critical role in the practice of IT governance and management as well as enterprise modelling.

Modelling tools bring modelling languages and techniques to life and provide the interface to modellers using these languages and techniques. At the same time, tools that support governance and management systems are increasingly important. Likewise, tool vendors are highly interested in the latest scientific achievements and how to incorporate them into their tooling environments.

The aim of this track is to bridge the gap between (i) research on management and modelling tools and (ii) enterprise management and modelling tool practice as experienced by practitioners and tool vendors. In this track, we invite researchers, practitioners, and vendors to present and demonstrate innovative and/or recently developed tools, tool prototypes, and tool development platforms that help solve (or have helped solve) scientific challenges, ideally framed around explicit research question(s).

In the scientific realm, tools are often developed by Master’s or Ph.D. students who create software artefacts to prove a hypothesis or demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative idea. In the industrial realm, tool vendors develop, maintain, and extend professional and mature tools used by large user communities. By bringing together research innovation with experience from modelling practice at industrial scale, the Tools and Demos track aims to foster networking, knowledge exchange, and the initiation of fruitful collaborations.

Tools that are particularly relevant for this track typically satisfy one or more of the following points and are connected to a scientific research question:

• Implement new interfaces for modelling tools (e.g., tangible user interfaces, VR environments, web modelling tools, mobile interfaces)
• Support collaborative (inter-organisational) modelling
• Offer novel forms of modelling support
• Are developed or offered with new technologies
• Technically implement new modelling methods
• Support modeller-specific functionality
• Enable their use in university teaching for standards such as ArchiMate, BPMN, ER, UML, SysML, etc.

If you are convinced that your tool could support a scientific research question, but you have not explored this yet, the track chairs can suggest research questions that still need tool support. You may then present how your tool could support research using these examples. To make the session interesting for academics, practitioners, and tool vendors, we encourage submissions to present tools and demos in the context of the research question(s) they help solve. For tool vendors: if you are not sure which research question your tool helps address, please contact the track chairs— we will work with you on this.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: 19 June 2026
• Author notification: 17 July 2026
• Author and early-bird registration: 31 July 2026
• Camera-ready submission: 7 August 2026

Submissions

Submissions should be between 10 and 25 pages and must follow the Springer CS Style (an Overleaf LaTeX template is available). Submissions must be made via EasyChair (please ensure you submit to the correct satellite track: Tools and Demos):

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2026

Publication

Accepted submissions by academic authors or teams will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in a post-proceedings volume of the conference, to be published in the LNBIP series by Springer.

Accepted tools by commercial vendors will be listed on the conference webpage, and the vendor will be asked to provide a link to the tool.

Presentation

Tools will be presented and demonstrated as part of the main program of the conference. The detailed concept for tool presentations and demos will be aligned with the organisers once the number and type of submissions is clear. We aim to provide a forum where both academic and industrial tools are presented and discussed, and to establish means that foster the initiation of collaborations between tool vendors and researchers.

Tools & Demo Chairs

• Fabrizio Fornari, University of Camerino, Italy (fabrizio.fornari@unicam.it)
• Simon Hacks, Stockholm University, Sweden (simon.hacks@dsv.su.se)

For further information, please send an email to demos_cbiedoc2026@easychair.org