WorkshopsCBI & EDOC 2026

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. (The system will soon open for submissions)

Workshop Chairs

• Rob Bemthuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands (r.h.bemthuis@utwente.nl)
• Irina Rychkova, Universtié Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (irina.rychkova@univ-paris1.fr)

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