Tools, in special modelling tools, play a critical role in the practice of IT governance and management and enterprise modelling.
Modeling tools bring modelling languages and techniques to life and provide the interface to modellers using these languages and techniques. But also tools to support governance and management systems are nowadays increasigly important. Likewise, the tool vendor market is heavily interested in the newest scientific achievements and how to incorporate them into their tooling environments.
The aim of this track is thus to bridge the gap between management and modelling tool research and the practice of enterprise management and modelling tooling experienced by practitioners and tool vendors. Within this track, we invite both parties to present innovative and/or recently developed modelling tools and tool development platforms that can help or have helped solving scientific challenges.
In the scientific realm, tools are often developed by Master’s or Ph.D. students who create software artifacts to proof a hypothesis of their research or to show the feasibility of an innovative idea. In the industrial realm, tool vendors develop, maintain, and extend professional and mature tools, which are used by hundreds of thousands of customers. By bringing together the innovation coming from research with the experience from modelling practice on an industrial scale, the modelling tool track aims to foster networking, knowledge exchange, and initiate fruitful collaborations. Tools that are particularly relevant for this track can be recognized by one or more of the following points and also involved a scientific research question:
- Implement new interfaces for modelling tools (e.g. tangible user interfaces, VR environments, web modelling tools, mobile interfaces)
- Support collaborative (inter-organisational) modelling
- Offer novel forms of modelling support
- Are developed or offered with new technologies
- Technically implement new modelling methods
- Support modeller-specific functionality
- Enable their use in university teaching for standards such as ArchiMate, BPMN, ER, UML, SysML, etc.
When you are convinced that your tool could support a scientific research question, but you did not do that yet, we can provide questions that still need tool support. Using these examples you can present how you could support science with that tool. In order to make the session interesting for academics, practitioners and tool vendors, we would like the tools to be presented in the context of the research question(s) they help solving. For tool vendors: if you are not sure about which research question your tool helps solving, please contact the track chairs and we will work with you on this.
Submissions
Submissions should be between 10 and 25 pages and must follow the Springer CS Style (an Overleaf LaTeX template is available) and must be done via EasyChair (be carefull in submiting in the correct track): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2025.
Publication
Accepted cases by academic authors or teams will be invited to submit a paper to be included in a post-proceedings volume of the conference, to be published in CEUR or in the LNBIP series by Springer.
Accepted tools by commertial vendors will be listed on the conference webpage and a link to the tool to be provided by the vendor will be provided.
Presentation
The tools will be presented and demonstrated as part of the main program of the conference. The detailed concept for the tool presentation will be aligned with the organisers once the number of submissions is clear. However, we aim to provide a forum where both academic as well as industrial tools are presented and discussed. Moreover, we aim to establish means to foster the initialisation of collaboration between tool vendors on the one side and researchers on the other.