Scope 

Digital transformation and digital disruption create many events that may impact enterprises and organizations. Resilience is the capability of enterprises to cope with these events. Resilience is an emergent capability because it is often achieved by combining a multitude of different perspectives on different abstraction levels such as organizational resiliency, information system resiliency, cyber resiliency, network andtechnology resiliency, as well as organizational resiliency.

Resilient enterprise architecture management plays an important role in fostering strategies and capabilities for resiliency by providing methods and tools for designing enterprises architectures in a resilient way. It may address enterprises but also selected parts of enterprise architecture such as services and processes. 

Resilient Services are services that provide additional meta-servicesin addition to their core functionality to cope with disruptive events. E.g. airlines reschedule passengsofdelayed flights. Resilient Processes provide event handlers to cope with external events and are thus capabableto lead back the control flow on the desired track even in the case of adverse events. Their decision points use data from a multitude of internal and external sources allowing them to detect and react to changes in the environment.

The Workshop on Resilient Enterprise Architecture – REA brings together academics, researchers, and practitioners to address fundamental and practical aspects of resilience enterprise architecture management in the context of digital transformation. 

We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage a broad understanding of architecting and modeling resiliency for information systems, including new ideas and research in progress.

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Topics

 Architectures for Resiliency
Adaptive Enterprise Architectures
Resiliency Analytics and Decision Support
Value-oriented Modeling for Resiliency
Resilient Digital Services and Products
Capabilities for Resiliency
Resilient Information Systems
Technologies for Resiliency
Architecture Patterns for Digitization
Resiliency in the Internet of Things
Resilient Microservices
Design and Composition of Resilient Services
Architectural Metamodels and Ontologies for Resiliency
Analytics for Resiliency
Resiliency and Digital Strategy 
Governanceand Management of Resilient Architectures and Systems
Self-optimizing and Knowledge-based Resilient Systems
Resilient Platforms and Ecosystems
Resilient Business and Technological Processes
Cyber Resiliency and Security

Submissions to REA 2018 have to be made by using the submission system EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rea2018. All accepted workshop papers will be published in CEUR proceedings. A selection of best papers will be invited to submit paper extensions for a special issue of the journal on Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ). Papers submitted need to follow LNBIP formatting guidelines available from: http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0. Papers shall not have more than ten pages (including figures, tables and appendices). 

Important Dates

Paper submission: 2 August, 2018
Notification of acceptance: 30 August, 2018
Camera ready submission: 5 September, 2018.

Program Co-Chairs 

Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Program Committe

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland
Oliver Bossert, McKinsey & Company, Frankfurt, Germany
Lars Brehm, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock, Germany
Ulrik Franke, RISE SICS AB Stockholm, Sweden
John Gøtze, QualiWare and IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia 
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Björn Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
Marite Kirkova, Riga Technical University, Latvia 
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris Sorbonne, France 
Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany 
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
Christian Schweda, Reutlingen University, Germany
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Matthias Wissotzki, University of Applied Sciences Wismar, Germany
Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany