The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC) series brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss how enterprises can be designed, adapted, and run effectively. It grew out of the CIAO! workshops, first organized in 2005 by the CIAO! Network on enterprise engineering. In 2011, the workshops evolved to become the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference series.
The conference series, and its associated Doctoral Consortium, provide a forum for sharing research and practical experience. The conference advances theories, models, and methods that help enterprises assess how they operate and make informed design choices. It draws on general systems theory and disciplines including information systems, software engineering, management, and sociology. The CIAO! paradigm, named for Communication, Information, Action, and Organisation, helps explain how enterprises evolve through deliberate design and through the actions of people across the organisation. The community involved in the EEWC series was broadened when the CIAO! and EE-Network research networks, and the Enterprise Engineering Institute formed the EE Alliance.
Springer began publishing the proceedings as Advances in Enterprise Engineering within its LNBIP series in 2008. Springer also provides an overview of the proceedings of the EEWC conference series that were published since then.