BPM 2012 will continue to foster research on the broad-based themes covered in earlier editions of the conference. Moreover, BPM 2012 encourages submissions in emerging fields of research and seeks to strengthen the relation to related research areas or fields of application. This includes research on conceptual models for unifying core aspects of BPM, including process management, data management, business rules and requirements, and analytics. The conference also encourages contributions that apply or combine established and new techniques, such as Model-Driven Architecture, Web engineering, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing, to the specific challenges of BPM.

In addition to a research track, BPM 2012 also features an industrial track. Industry practitioners are encouraged to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with a particular focus on their impact on current information technology or business practice. These papers should present industrial solutions (that go beyond mature prototypes or “potentially applicable” methodologies and techniques) and have to be based on industrial experiences or empirical data.

Awards will be given to the best papers in different categories. In addition, selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the journal of Information Systems published by Elsevier.

BPM 2012 will take place in Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn is a progressive and dynamic city with a milenary history. Tallinn offers all the infrastructure and facilities of a global technology hub, combined with highly attractive tourism opportunities. The picturesque Tallinn Old Town, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is a unique pearl of medieval architecture, considered as one of the most intact medieval city centres in the world.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Models, Architectures and Paradigms

Business process modeling and analysis
Business process reference models
BPM methodologies
Formal models in business process management
Infrastructures for BPM

Process patterns
Process configuration and assembly
Process planning and flexible processes
Exception handling and process escalation
Workflow and process management engines
Process enactment platforms
Case handling systems
Process simulation
Process mining
Process monitoring and tracking
Transactional issues in process management
Data streaming in business processes
Emerging Technology and Paradigms

Distributed BPM
Inter-organizational business process management
Cross-organizational process support and contracts
Service-oriented architecture and process management
Web Services for process management
Processes and service composition
Business process and e-service repositories
Process management in the cloud
Organizatonal Aspects

BPM governance
BPM success factors and measures
Process performance measurement
Process verification and validation
Process-based compliance management
Quality of Service in business processes
Security in business processes
BPM Outreach

Software modelling and business process models
Complex event processing and business process models
Ontologies and semantic process modeling
Process-aware information systems
Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
Process-enhanced groupware
Process data warehousing and analysis
Applications and Experience

BPM in selected industries
Experiences with and evaluations of BPM tools
Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file using the EasyChair submission site by the deadlines indicated below.

Papers must be in English. They must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see formatting instructions and stylesheets). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late, in another format than PDF and submissions sent by fax will be immediately rejected. The same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page limit.

Industrial papers must be clearly marked as such so that they can be appropriately reviewed by the program committee. Concerning length and formatting, industrial papers must follow the same rules and guidelines as research papers.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and plan to present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a paper for a special issue of Information Systems (Elsevier).

Inquiries regarding this call for papers may be addressed to the program chairs at: bpm2012@easychair.org

Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline: 11 March 2012
Full paper submission deadline: 18 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 18 May 2012
Camera-ready papers deadline: 17 June 2012
Conference: 4-6 September 2012
Program Chairs
Alistair Barros, Queensland University of Technology
Avigdor Gal, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark