INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/bpsesummerschool/

Call for Participation:

VENUE
Ciudad Real (Spain).
Escuela Superior de Inform?tica
Paseo de la Universidad, 4

DATES
8-11 July, 2008

PRESENTATION
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The International Summer School on Business Processes and Software Engineering aims to provide a detailed view about the current state of the art and practice on the Business Processes field, by tackling the main areas of Business Process Management: modelling, enactment, measurement and improvement.

The program will consist of invited lectures, who are prestigious experts in the field, and who will present state of art BPM methods and techniques. The school will be held in the Escuela Superior de Inform?tica (http://www.inf-cr.uclm.es) in Ciudad Real (Spain), from July 8th to 11th.

The school will be mainly open to young researchers and professionals with some background in computer science who are interested in BPM and SE fields.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc (United States).
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio (Italy).
Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research CEC Dresden (Germany).
Jorge Coelho, Chair of the Institute for BPM (Portugal).
Steffan Jablonski, University of Bayreuth (Germany).
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck (Austria).
Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio (Italy).

Presentations:
?B2B and EAI Integration with Process Management?, Christoph Bussler
?Managing Internet-wide business processes?, Gerardo Canfora & Eugenio Zimeo
?Process Management and Integration with SAP?, Jorge Cardoso
?Mlearn - an effective methodology to implement a Business Process-Managed Organization?, Jorge Coelho.
?Business process design?, Steffan Jablonski
?Dynamic Process LifeCycle Support?, Barbara Weber

PROGRAM
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The school will be held in the Escuela Superior de Inform?tica (http://www.inf-cr.uclm.es) in Ciudad Real (Spain), from July 8th to 11th.

The program is available in the following link: http://alarcos.esi.uclm.es/bpsesummerschool/program.aspx

The social program includes the summer school dinner on Thursday 10th and a visit to Almagro, where the International Festival of Classic Theater is hosted during the summer school dates.

ACCOMMODATION
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A list of hotels with special rates for the Summer School is available.

REGISTRATION
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The school will be open to about 50 qualified and motivated students. Ph.D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial) or industrial professionals are encouraged to apply.

The registration fees are the following:
- Early Registration (before June 16th ): 350 ?.
- Late Registration (after June 16th): 450 ?.

The registration fees cover free access to all courses, handling material, coffee breaks, lunches and the social dinner.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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F?lix Garc?a (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira, Portugal)
Andrea Delgado Cavaliere (University of the Republica, Uruguay)
Ignacio Garc?a-Rodriguez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Mario Piattini (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Elvira Rol?n (University of Tamaulipas, M?xico)
Francisco Ruiz (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Laura S?nchez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

IMPORTANT DATES
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Early Registration Deadline: June 16th
Late Registration Deadline: July 4th