The digital transformation toward ecosystem societies with global industries and value chains, and the associated need for a structured research and standardization has given rise to major national and global initiatives. These initiatives address potentials and challenges of digitalization. Societies and enterprises currently face crucial challenges, while Industry 4.0 becomes important in the global manufacturing ecosystem societies all the more. Industry 4.0 offers a range of opportunities for ecosystem societies’ partners and companies to increase the flexibility and efficiency of production processes. The development of new business models can be promoted with digital platforms and architectures for ecosystem societies covering Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is dedicated to research and practice for industry and supports the implementation of this vision, especially in manufacturing companies. According to Japanese government, Society 5.0 is more general and can be defined as fusion between cyberspace and physical space, addressing economic progress aligned with solving social problems by providing goods and services to meet repeated latent needs regardless of location, age, gender, or language in ecosystem societies in global and local countries.

Contemporary advances in the field of artificial intelligence have led to a rapidly growing number of innovative intelligent systems that can operate entirely independently of human intervention or enables interactions of unprecedented complexity with humans. Data plays a central role in innovative intelligent digital architecture and allows to automate decisions impacting all stakeholders. The use of artificial intelligence techniques enables autonomous decisions that were previously reserved for humans. Intelligent systems augment processes by creating automated interfaces to human beings and replacing human-decision making by a machine-based one. Innovative Intelligent digital architectures support the request, configuration and fulfillment of services. Digital innovation promotes the creation of intelligent systems and services with an intelligent digital architecture. Products based on innovative intelligent digital architectures become aware of their environment, act upon it, are able to interact with human beings and can change their functionality during their lifetime. Based on innovative intelligent digital architecture products and services have local autonomous and dynamically extensible capabilities by accessing external services. Digital platforms for ecosystem societies become feasible by matching supply and demand of services, resources and products. Innovative Intelligent Digital Architectures also enable and enhance business models and architecture methods by integrating resources and leveraging decision making in unprecedented ways, for instance, by applying Digital Enterprise Architecture Framework such as the Adaptive Integrated Digital Architecture Framework (AIDAF). Public discourse on ‘autonomous’ algorithms which work on ‘passively’ collected data contributes to this view. a rapidly growing number of innovative intelligent systems that can operate entirely independently of human intervention or enables interactions of unprecedented complexity with humans. Data plays a central role in intelligent digital architecture and allows to automate decisions impacting all stakeholders. The use of artificial intelligence techniques enables autonomous decisions.

The EDOC Workshop – Digital Innovation and Architecture, Methods toward Ecosystem Societies – covers fundamental and practical aspects to support the digital transformation toward Ecosystem Society. This disruptive change interacts with all information resources, processes and systems, which are important business enablers for the digital transformation since years. Innovative digital architectures enable the intense interaction with customers and products in ecosystem societies. The customer is closely integrated with business processes there and interacts like a co-worker by using implicit touch points, which are provided by mobility and wearable systems and the Internet of Things. In this way customer experience is fostered with disruptive transformation and continuous improvement in ecosystem societies. 

We are delighted to invite contributions to the EDOC Workshop – Digital Innovation and Architecture, Methods toward Ecosystem Societies covering Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0. Our aim is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss both technological and business aspects in the context of digital innovation and architectures, methods, processes, services, products, platforms and business models toward ecosystem societies. We also investigate how digital innovation and architectures support new ways of value co-creation for ecosystem societies covering Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0.

Important Dates

• Workshop paper submission: July 14th
• Workshop papers acceptance notification: July 19th
• Author registration: August 2nd
• Camera-ready papers: September 29th

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original/unpublished and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (16 pages long, including figures and references) presenting a scientific and/or technical contribution, case studies or detailed experience report.
• Short papers (8 pages long) presenting preliminary result or work-in-progress are encouraged as well.

All submissions will be handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=biweek2024 (choose track: BI Week 2024 - Workshops - DIAMES).

Contributions must be written in English, should comply to the conference proceedings guidelines and be submitted in PDF. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed based on their scientific and technical contribution, originality, and relevance. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to be present on-site to present the paper during the workshop.

List of Topics

• Digitalization of Products, Services, Processes, Systems, and Enterprises toward ecosystem societies
• Dynamic Capabilities and Digital Business Models
• Digital Strategy, Governance, and Management
• Digital Enterprise Architectures with Ecosystem Societies
• AIDAF – Adaptive Integrated Digital Architecture Framework
• Security and Privacy in Digital Architectures in Ecosystems
• Architectural Patterns for Digitalization and Intelligent Analytics
• Customer Experience and Interaction Design
• Runtime Monitoring of Operation Data
• Digital Platforms and Innovative Intelligent Service-Ecosystems
• Advanced Analytics and Decision Support for Digital Enterprises and Ecosystems
• Cognitive Models for Decision Support
• Artificial Intelligence Problem Solving for Digitalization
• Innovative Intelligent Systems and Services
• Deep Learning and Machine Learning
• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots
• Semantic Support, Knowledge Representation and Inference Technologies
• Rationality and Explanation Technologies
• Intelligent Human-Interaction, User Roles and Learning Support
• Digital Visualization, Interaction, and Augmented Reality
• Multi-perspective Architectural Viewpoints, Methods, and Environments
• Self-optimizing and Resilient Adaptive Systems
• Adaptive Software Architectures
• Gill Framework: Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
• Decision Support Processes and Frameworks
• Intelligent Digital Applications: Digitized Cars, Smart Finance, Smart City, Smart Home, Smart Medicine, Smart Energy, Industry 4.0 and 5.0, 3-D Printing and Production Environments, Robots, etc.

Committees

Workshop chairs

• Yoshimasa Masuda:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA / Keio, Tokyo University of Science
  • Contact: Japanyoshi_masuda@keio.jp and ymasuda@andrew.cmu.edu, yoshi_masuda@rs.tus.ac.jp
• Alfred Zimmermann: 
  • Reutlingen University, Germany
  • Contact: alfred.zimmermann@reutlingen-university.de
• Jean Paul Sebastian Piest:
  • University of Twente, Netherlands
  • Contact: j.p.s.piest@utwente.nl
• Asif Gill: 
  • University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Contact: asif.gill@uts.edu.au

Program committee

• Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Karlheinz Blank, T-Systems International, Germany
• Oliver Bossert, McKinsey&Company, Gemany
• Abdellah Chehri, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
• John Gøtze, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dierk Jugel, Reutlingen University, Germany
• Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Yohimasa Masuda, Keio University, Tokyo University of Science, Japan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Michael Möhring, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
• Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Christian Schweda, Reutlingen University, Germany
• Milan Simic, RMIT University, Australia
• Andreas Speck, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
• Ulrike Steffens, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Asif Gill, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Hironori Takeuchi, Musahi University, Japan
• Matthias Wissotzki, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Jean Paul Sebastian Piest, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Shuichiro Yamamoto, Nagoya University, Japan
• Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany

Publication

DIAMES-2024 proceedings will be published in the EDOC Workshop Post-Conference Proceedings.