The 19th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2026) invites papers for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of the conference.
The main theme of the PoEM 2026 conference is Rethinking Enterprise Modeling in the Era of AI (see https://poem2026.aegean.gr/). We encourage papers submitted to the DC to align with this year’s focus and topics of the conference but we are open to submissions in other relevant topics aligned with the main scope of PoEM.
Aim
The objective of the PoEM 2026 Doctoral Consortium is to provide an open forum for doctoral students to:
- Present and discuss their PhD research work;
- Receive constructive feedback and advice for future research directions;
- Network with peers and future colleagues.
The submitted papers should reflect the current status of the author’s PhD project, presenting a problem statement and research questions (RQ), scientific framing against existing literature in the problem domain, the research design and method, the proposed contribution and results achieved so far, as well as existing or planned evaluations of the contribution.
Submission Guidelines
PoEM 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). Information about the CEURART format can be found at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html (scroll to section: “CEURART style files for papers”). (Overleaf template available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw; offline Latex available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip)
The PoEM companion post-proceedings, containing papers from the DC and the various PoEM workshops, shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.
We welcome submissions of 8–10 pages including references and appendices via EasyChair (use Doctoral Consortium Track).
Use of Generative AI in the development of the paper must comply with the CEUR-WS GenAI policy and must be explicitly declared at the end of the paper, as instructed at: https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html.
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,
- clarity.
Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium is competitive in nature and is based on the aforementioned evaluation criteria.
After acceptance, the author will be invited to revise the manuscript based on the received reviews and prepare a short presentation.
During the DC, authors will present their paper and discuss it with the Doctoral Consortium mentors (a mentor will be assigned to every accepted paper).
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.
Both the mentor input and the conference feedback should serve as guidance for a second revision that can be submitted (after the conference) for publication in the PoEM companion post-proceedings.
Important Dates
Event Date December 1st, 2026
Submission deadline October 2nd, 2026
Notification of Acceptance November 3rd, 2026
Camera ready copy November 17th, 2026
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Ana-Maria Ghiran, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece