Best Papers of the EDOC 2025 Conference

Call for Papers – Best Papers of the EDOC 2025 Conference

Journal: Information Systems
Publisher: Elsevier
Journal metrics: Impact Factor 3.4, CiteScore 9.8

Submission window: 20 January 2026 – 30 August 2026

This special issue will publish extended versions of the best research papers presented at the 29th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2025). It focuses on enterprise computing, i.e., the design, engineering, and operation of software and information systems that support large organisations and cross‑organisation workflows, including emerging advances in agentic AI, business process management, cyber‑physical resilience, and sustainable enterprise transformation.

Why this issue matters

• Enterprise Computing underpins critical business operations by integrating interconnected applications, distributed services, and cross‑organisational information flows.

• The EDOC 2025 conference highlighted cutting‑edge work on Agentic AI in enterprises, process mining, resilient cyber‑physical systems, enterprise architecture, and security, offering a strong pool of high‑quality, peer‑assessed research.

• This special issue gives selected authors the opportunity to extend conference papers into journal‑level contributions, with deeper theoretical grounding, methodological detail, and practical implications.

Scope and topics of interest

The SI targets enterprise‑level models, methods, and tools for designing, evolving, and managing large‑scale software and information systems. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Enterprise architecture & engineering

  • Methods, frameworks, reference models, and tools for enterprise architecture.

  • Architecture for networked organisations and concerns such as interoperability, security, and sustainability.

  • Impact of AI, cloud, edge computing, and blockchain on enterprise architecture.

• Service‑oriented architectures and systems

  • Service composition, orchestration, and choreography.

  • Service policies, contracts, and enforcement mechanisms.

  • Architectures for cyber‑physical systems and software‑level interoperability and security.

• Model‑based software engineering

  • Model‑driven architectures and development, domain‑specific modeling languages (DSMLs), and low‑code platforms.

  • Engineering and use of digital twins and embedded models in enterprise systems.

• Enterprise security and privacy

  • Information security, cybersecurity, sensing, and awareness.

  • Threat modeling, attack simulation, intrusion detection and prevention, blockchain and privacy‑preserving technologies, and SOA/enterprise‑architectural security.

• Business process management and business rules

  • Process modeling, verification, configuration, and architectures; process mining and robotic process automation (RPA).

  • Business process agility, flexibility, and decision management, including process compliance and business‑rule languages and engines.

• Semantics and information management

  • Business‑object modeling, taxonomies, and ontologies for enterprise knowledge integration.

  • Master data management, data quality, trustworthiness, and real‑time data analytics, combining data‑driven and symbolic modeling approaches.

Guest editors

• Dr. Alessandro Gianola, INESC‑ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

• Dr. Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

Submission details

• Submission portal: Elsevier Editorial Manager for Information Systems:
  https://www.editorialmanager.com/infosys/default.aspx

• When submitting, select article type: “VSI: EDOC 2025”.

• Manuscripts must be invited by the Guest Editors (i.e., EDOC 2025 best‑paper invitees) and should be significant extensions of the original conference paper.

• Important dates:

  • Submission opening: 20 January 2026

  • Submission deadline: 30 August 2026

  • Editorial acceptance deadline: 30 October 2026

• Papers must comply with the journal’s Guide for Authors and undergo normal peer‑review.

This issue is ideal for EDOC 2025 authors who wish to deepen their contributions and publish in a leading information‑systems journal focused on enterprise computing, BPM, architecture, and AI‑driven process innovation.

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