Foreword by SoEA4EE Organizers -- Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering

The goal of the workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and management of service oriented enterprise architectures and the software systems supporting them. Especially four themes of research have been pursued: 1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategies with the service-oriented enterprise architecture; 2. Design of the service-oriented enterprise architecture; 3. Mapping of service-oriented enterprise architecture to enterprise resources; 4. SoEA and Cloud-Computing; influence of cloud, social and big data.