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EVL-BP 2011 : Fourth International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011) | |||||||||||||||
Link: http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/evl-bp | |||||||||||||||
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--------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S - EXTENDED DEADLINE --------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011) in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International EDOC Conference August 29 - September 2, 2011, Helsinki, Finland http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/evl-bp Submission deadline: 29th March 2011 (extended) Scope ----- The EVL-BP workshop series is devoted to evolution in business processes. Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, evolutionary business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation such as design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations, and change management. Central to the field of evolutionary business processes is the notion of requirement, which drive the change of business processes through their life-cycles. The evolution of processes and their underlying software systems becomes more and more an important and interesting topic in business process management. Since the life time of software systems frequently spans many years, business processes modeled on top of systems cannot be assumed to remain fixed, and migration between different versions is essential. As a consequence, modeling and management techniques developed in the context of ad-hoc, short-term composition of services and their processes lack the necessary constructs to concisely express the gradual evolution of processes and software systems and new dynamic, declarative, and/or configurable approaches in this context are required. The evolutionary approach to business processes raises a number of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking compliance, configuring, or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements, identification and systematic handling of changes, management of process versions, or quality attributes and measurement of business processes as predictors of evolutionary business processes. Evolution in business processes takes place in a wide number of domains, and is expected to impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and standardization efforts. This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems, case studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of concrete examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work in progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work on formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are also sought-after. Topics ------ * Evolutionary business process modeling * Configuration of business processes * Dynamic, adaptive, or flexible business processes * Implementation issues for evolutionary processes * Tools for evolutionary processes * Methodologies for evolutionary processes * Real-world use cases of evolutionary business processes * Business rules and policies for evolutionary business processes * Rule driven business process engines * Business and technical requirements for evolutionary processes * Mathematical foundations of evolutionary business processes * Formal models of evolutionary business processes * Monitoring of evolutionary business processes * Validation and model checking of evolutionary business processes * Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for evolutionary business processes * Service-oriented architectures and evolutionary business processes * Interoperability for evolutionary business processes * Semantic Web and ontologies and evolutionary business processes * Collaboration and evolutionary business processes * Data-driven process evolution * Evolution of cross-organisational processes / process choreographies * Complex event processing models/support for evolutionary business processes * Process and data mining for evolutionary business processes * Empirical studies and principles for evolutionary business processes * Patterns and change operators for evolutionary business processes * Quality attributes and measures for evolutionary business processes Submission ---------- The workshop duration is half a day. It will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and one keynote. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long and must use the two-column format of IEEE conference proceedings and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair. Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee by the 7th of May 2011. At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2011 Workshops will be published with their own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library (pending approval by IEEE), which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper should register for the main conference in order to present their papers. The selected best research papers will be considered for a special issue in an ISI-indexed journal. Further details will be announced later. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission: March 29th, 2011 (extended) Paper Notification: May 7th, 2011 Camera Ready Copy Due: June 1st, 2011 Workshop: August 29-30th, 2011 Workshop Co-chairs ------------------ Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University and Simon Fraser University, Canada Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia Sylvain Halle, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada Florian Rosenberg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee ----------------- Colin Atkinson, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA Andrew Berry, Deontik, Australia Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland Marko Boskovic, Athabasca University, Canada Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc, USA Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Luciano Garcia-Banuelos, Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Rania Khalaf, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Florian Lautenbacher, Senacor Technologies, Germany Philipp Leitner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Niels Lohmann, Universitaet Rostock, Germany Wolfgang Mayer, University of South Australia, Australia Anton Michlmayr, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Labs, USA Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Cesare Pautasso, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Maja Pesic, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, The Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia Franck Van Breugel, York University, Canada Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
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