PoEM 2025 Doctoral Consortium – Call for Papers

Validating Enterprise Modeling Research – A Working Doctoral Consortium

PoEM is a working conference and this year it organizes a Working Doctoral Consortium (DC). It will be an interactive meeting place for PhD students from the Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems community. If you are a PhD student working on foundations, techniques, methods, tools, and applications of Enterprise Modeling – join us!

We will challenge you this year with validation of your research contribution. Come and share your ideas, experience and success stories on:

• What are the main threats to validity for your research?
• What are your verification, validation, and evaluation (VVE) strategies?
• What qualitative and quantitative methods are relevant for the Enterprise Modelling research?

What Can You Expect?

• You will take part in an interactive session, where you will discuss your work with experts and fellow PhD students in the Enterprise Modeling area. You will not only answer the questions about your work but also ask them!
• You will work on a common “VVE challenge” with the other participants.
• You will receive feedback from at least two experts from the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. Besides traditional reviews on your submission, the experts will participate in the workshop and help you to design the most appropriate VVE research strategy and methods for your doctoral project.

What Is Expected From You?

To submit your work, you must be a current doctoral student in the field of Enterprise Modeling and/or Information Systems Engineering. The type of contribution expected may vary depending on the stage of your PhD journey:

• Relevance challenge: (for early stages of the PhD thesis): paper situating your research among related works in order to validate its relevance.
• VVE challenge: paper discussing potential validation strategies, proposing validation methods or demonstrating their application to your research project.
• Success story: paper presenting the validation process of your research project and its results.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be single-authored, but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned within the paper. The language of all submitted materials must be English.

• Submissions should follow the CEUR 1-column format: (CEURART.zip)
• Length: 5–12 pages including references and appendices
• Submission via EasyChair, use Doctoral Consortium Track

Selection & Mentoring

• Each submitted paper will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, potential contribution, technical soundness, and clarity. Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium is competitive in nature and is based on the evaluation criteria above.
• After acceptance, the author will be invited to revise the manuscript based on the received reviews and prepare a short presentation.
• During the DC, the student will present the paper and discuss it with the Doctoral Consortium mentors.
• After the presentations, a working session will be organized on issues related to the presented papers. These could be, for example, architecting the envisioned method or tool solution (for early-stage PhD projects), the design of validation or evaluation of the work, planning joint experiments or case studies, as well as planning joint publications.

Important Dates

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Anne Gutschmidt, University of Rostock, Germany
• Irina Rychkova, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden

Program Committee

To be defined.