CBI 2026
Tue 15 - Fri 18 September 2026 Enschede, Netherlands
co-located with CBI & EDOC 2026
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WorkshopsCBI & EDOC 2026

Workshops

NOTE: Full registration for the conference will comprise registration for the workshops, but registration for only the workshops also will be possible.

For additional information, please refer to the Planned Workshops tab and to the individual workshop’s pages.

SoEA4EE

Event The 17th Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering
Room to be defined
Short description 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.
Website https://sites.google.com/view/soea4ee
Topics • Agentic AI and AI-Native Enterprise Architectures
• Platform Ecosystems and Multi-Platform Networks
• Digital Enterprises and Industry 4.0 in the Computing Continuum
• SoEA and influencethe Influence of Artificial IntelligenceAI, Social Information Systems, and Big Data
• Alignment of Enterprise Goals and Strategy with the SoEA
• Quality, Sustainability, and Sustainability
• Design and Lifecycle of SoEA
• Governance of SoEA

EA4AI

Event Enterprise Architecture for Augmented Intelligence (EA4AI) Workshop
Room to be defined
Short description EA4AI seeks applied research, experience reports and case studies that discuss the application of Enterprise Architecture for AI in the real context. This provides opportunities to enterprise architects, business and IT thought leaders to share, network and learn from each other through the presentation of applied research and innovation. This Workshop will provide important insights into future directions and share practices which worked, and which did not work including lessons learned, benefit realisation and limitations of EA4AI.
Website https://www.digisaslab.org/ea4ai-2026/
Topics • Human-centric AI system interaction architecture
• Business architecture for AI systems
• Information architecture for AI systems
• Decision architecture for AI systems
• Agentic AI systems
• Technology architecture for AI systems
• Integration, communication and coordination architecture for AI systems
• Monitoring and observability of AI systems
• Ethics and trust architecture for AI systems
• Privacy and security architecture for AI systems
• Responsible and safety architecture for AI systems
• AI application portfolio assessment and assurance
• Continuous AI application testing (during and post development) and auditing
• AI application governance, risk and compliance
• Enterprise architecture methods and tools for AI systems
• Enterprise architecture driven enterprise AI system development and deployment

BP-Meet-IoT

Event 10th International Workshop on BP-Meet-IoT
Room to be defined
Short description The workshop aims to attract novel research at the intersection of the BPM and IoT areas by bringing together practitioners and researchers from both communities who are interested in making IoT-enhanced business processes a reality. Going beyond the BPM and IoT themes, with the 10th edition, we aim to extend the workshop's reach to also address researchers working on holistic approaches to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) development through business processes, to create real value for humans. Furthermore, we aim to create new synergies with the field of business informatics and information systems.
Website https://bp-meet-iot.github.io
Topics • Modeling IoT-enhanced business processes
• Dealing with context in IoT-enhanced business processes
• Privacy and security in IoT-enhanced business processes
• Connection of analytical processes with IoT
• Mining IoT-enhanced business processes
• Dealing with unstructured environments and emergent behavior
• Specifying the autonomy level of IoT things
• Improving resource monitoring and quality of task execution
• IoT and ubiquitous technologies supporting process analytics
• Sensor-based task management in business processes
• Cyber-physical systems automation based on BP and IoT
• Business examples of IoT technologies applied to ubiquitous BPs
• Business models for novel IoT-enhanced business processes
• Enterprise architectures for and with IoT-enhanced business processes

HIDDEN LAYERS

Event HIDDEN LAYERS (Research Meets Practice): Enterprise Risk, AI Forensics, and Image Security
Room to be defined
Short description The workshop addresses emerging security challenges related to AI-driven threat detection in enterprise applications, vulnerabilities uncovered through forensic investigations, malicious content embedded in digital images, and human-centric attack vectors. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, HIDDEN LAYERS aims to foster collaboration, promote knowledge exchange, and stimulate discussion on emerging methodologies and best practices in enterprise image security and forensic AI. The workshop primarily focuses on enterprise risk in the context of AI-enabled and mediarich enterprise systems. We welcome industry case studies that highlight real-world risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation approaches, including human-centric threats such as social engineering, insider threats, and broader cybercrime activities that impact organizational security and resilience.
Website https://hidlayers-workshop.github.io/#home
Topics • Enterprise cybersecurity challenges
• Threat modeling and mitigation strategies
• Governance, compliance, and risk management
• Deployment and evaluation of forensic frameworks in enterprise environments
• AI-based forensic methods
• Deep learning and anomaly detection for forensic analysis and enterprise risk detection
• Validation and robustness of forensic AI
• Attacks against AI systems
• Image steganography and steganalysis
• Detection of hidden or malicious content (e.g., stego-malware)
• Deepfakes, fake news, AI-generated images
• Biometric security
• Privacy-preserving AI techniques

iResearch

Event 4th International Workshop on Empirical Methodologies for Research in Enterprise Architecture and Service/Data-oriented Computing
Room to be defined
Short description The fourth iRESEARCH edition, to be held in 2026 as part of the EDOC/CBI conference, will focus on consolidating the research-methodological foundations of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Service-oriented Computing (SOC) in the context of generative-AI-enabled enterprises. In a world increasingly driven by data and powered by AI, this workshop edition will address the growing need for both researchers and research-minded practitioners to apply robust empirical methods in developing, refining, and evaluating AI-based models and systems that build upon EA and SOC knowledge.
Website https://conf.researchr.org/details/cbi-edoc-2026/cbi-edoc-2026-workshops/6/iResearch
Topics • Design science and action research as methods for doing research with domain experts and for domain experts;
• Emerging research methods and experimentation;
• Surveys on state-of-the-art EA, SOC practices in DS&AI-enabled enterprises;
• Systematic reviews and mapping studies on EA, SOC and/or DS&AI phenomena;
• Qualitative studies: case studies, focus groups, grounded theory, interview-based studies;
• Different types of approaches to evaluate validity of results of EA and SOC research from DS&AI perspective;
• Lessons learned from empirical research in industry-university collaboration settings;
• Frameworks for comparative evaluations;
• Data science from empirical design science perspective;
• Identification of strengths and weaknesses of empirical and comparative evaluation approaches.
• Use of theories and research methods in EA, SOC, DS&AI and/or generative AI research.

XAI-EADM

Event Explainable AI for Enterprise Architecture and Decision-Making
Room to be defined
Short description This workshop focuses on explainable AI (XAI) in the context of enterprise architecture and decision making. While XAI research has largely focused on model-level explanations, enterprises face challenges at the architectural, governance, and lifecycle levels. XAI-EADM explores explainability as a system-level capability embedded into enterprise architectures, decision pipelines, and AI governance frameworks. Additionally, the workshop addresses the transparency and compliance challenges inherent in deploying Generative AI and Agentic AI frameworks.
Website https://conf.researchr.org/details/cbi-edoc-2026/cbi-edoc-2026-workshops/5/XAI-EADM
Topics • XAI Methods for Enterprise Decision Support Systems
  • Techniques to enhance interpretability in AI-driven decision pipelines.
  • Balancing transparency, accuracy, and computational efficiency in mission-critical systems.
  • Human-in-the-loop strategies for validating AI explanations in enterprise settings.
• Operationalizing XAI in Organizational AI Workflows
  • Architectural patterns for integrating XAI into existing AI/ML pipelines.
  • Tools and platforms for deploying XAI at scale.
  • Challenges in scalability, interoperability, and maintenance of XAI systems.
• Assessment of XAI Integration Frameworks
  • Comparative analysis of XAI frameworks.
  • Metrics for evaluating explanation quality.
  • Case studies of successful/failure XAI integrations in enterprise architectures.
• Governance Requirements for Data-Driven XAI Systems
  • Ethical and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, AI Act) in XAI design and deployment.
  • Data governance strategies for ensuring explainability in high-dimensional or sensitive datasets.
  • Auditing and monitoring frameworks for maintaining transparency over time.
  • Privacy-Explainability-Accuracy Trilemma: Managing the trade-offs between providing transparent explanations and maintaining data privacy
  • Auditing Generative AI and Agentic Workflows: Frameworks for ensuring LLM-driven enterprise processes remain transparent, traceable, and compliant with the AI Act.
• XAI Across the MLOps Lifecycle
  • Explainability needs in MLOps stages: model development, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
  • Tools for embedding XAI into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Feedback loops for refining explanations based on user interactions and system performance.

Planned Workshops

Title
BP-Meet-IoT
CBI & EDOC Workshops

EA4AI
CBI & EDOC Workshops

HIDDEN LAYERS
CBI & EDOC Workshops

iResearch
CBI & EDOC Workshops

SoEA4EE
CBI & EDOC Workshops

XAI-EADM
CBI & EDOC Workshops

Call for Workshop Proposals

The 30th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2026) will be co-located with the IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2026) in Enschede (the Netherlands) from 15 – 18 September 2026. Together these conferences provide a premier forum for the enterprise computing and business informatics communities. We invite proposals for half‑day or one‑day workshops to be held on Tuesday, 15 September 2026 (immediately preceding the main conference). Workshops create opportunities for focused, interactive discussions on emerging research themes, novel application domains, and cross-community collaborations.

Scope and Topics

Workshop topics should complement the scope of EDOC and CBI. We welcome proposals on established enterprise computing themes and new areas of inquiry, such as:

  • Enterprise architectures; service-oriented and cloud architectures; software engineering
  • Socio-technical perspective in enterprise computing (e.g., addressing interactivity, human/social aspects, adaptability and user-centricity)
  • Business process and business rule management; case management; advanced analytics and AI
  • Advanced analytics and machine learning: predictive analytics, generative AI and foundation models (e.g., LLMs) for enterprise computing, explainable AI (XAI), data-centric AI practices, and AI-driven decision support
  • Sustainability and green ICT; digital ethics and human rights; responsible AI
  • Interoperability, federation, and integration (data, process, systems)
  • Model-driven engineering; digital twins; distributed ledgers and smart contracts
  • Enterprise security, privacy, consent; governance, risk, and compliance
  • Semantics, information management, knowledge graphs; human–machine collaboration
  • Human–machine collaboration: human–computer interaction in enterprise systems, sociotechnical aspects of automation, collaborative intelligence, and the design of user-centric interfaces for enterprise applications

Innovative formats beyond traditional paper presentations are encouraged (e.g. panels, hands on sessions, hackathons, demonstrations). Workshops must be held in English and have an international program committee.

Workshop Proposal Contents

Proposals (max. 6 pages, PDF) should succinctly address the following:

  • Workshop title and preferred duration (half-day or full-day).
  • Names, affiliations, and contact details of the workshop chairs.
  • Preliminary Call for Papers/Participation, including:
  • Workshop description, background and goals
  • List of topics
  • Preliminary programme committee with confirmed members
  • Intended publicity channels (mailing lists, social media, websites, direct invitations)
  • History of the workshop (if applicable), including previous editions, number of participants, and acceptance rates.
  • Short bios of the organizers (e.g., highlighting relevant experience and track record in the field).
  • Publication plan (optional), please indicate whether you wish to publish papers in the joint proceedings volume (Springer LNBIP) or another venue (e.g., CEUR WS). Springer requires an acceptance rate of ≤ 50 % for inclusion. If you choose another venue than the joint proceedings of EDOC-CBI, organizing its proceedings will be the responsibility of the individual workshop organizers.

Important Dates

  • Workshop proposal submission deadline: 2 February 2026
  • Notification of workshop acceptance: 9 February 2026
  • Workshop paper submission: 19 June  2026
  • Workshop paper notification: 17 July  2026
  • Workshop day: 15 September 2026
  • Camera ready for workshop papers (for joint workshop proceedings volume): 7 August  2026

Proceedings

We will organize a joint proceedings volume for all workshops, which will be published with Springer under the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Workshops organizers may choose to publish their papers in this volume or organize themselves an independent proceedings volume with another publisher (e.g. CEUR-WS.org). Those that opt for the Springer LNBIP proceedings must comply with a 50% acceptance rate.

Workshop organizers may also decide to not include all accepted submissions in their proceedings, such as vision papers, extended abstracts papers, etc.

Submission

Workshop proposals shall be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2026.

Workshop Chairs

For further information, please send an email to the workshop chairs.

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
Tue 15 Sep 2026
Workshop day
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Notification of workshop acceptance
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Workshop proposal submission
Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2026
Program Committee