Message from the EMA 2014 Workshop Chairs

The Enterprise Model Analysis (EMA) workshop aims atdiscussing research and open issues related to the analysisof enterprise models. Enterprise engineering1 is the disciplinethat studies theories, methods, techniques and tools tosupport the analysis, design, implementation, evolution andgovernance of enterprises by combining management science,information systems research, computer science and engineering.The concerns addressed by enterprise engineering arebroad. They range from the traditional IT-driven problems,such as business process execution, service design, and business,application, and technological alignment, to businessandorganizational-driven problems, such as business processdesign, and process measurement. Addressing these differentconcerns requires the successful combination of multidisciplinarytheories, methods and techniques.