MDE4BPM08

1st International Workshop on
Model-Driven Engineering for
Business Process Management

1 September 2008, at BPM2008, Milan, Italy


Paper Submission Deadline: 23 May 2008


http://www.inf.unisi.ch/mde4bpm08/



-- CALL FOR PAPERS --


An improved alignment of the IT infrastructure of an enterprise with its
business needs and requirements is a trend that has dominated and driven
innovations in information technology over the past couple of years.
Model-driven engineering techniques are used to translate business needs
directly into IT solutions. A special area of model-driven engineering,
often denoted as business-driven development, focuses on generating SOA-
based IT solutions from business process models.

The goal of the MDE4BPM workshop is to establish a meeting point for
closer collaboration and exchange between the BPM and the MDE communities.
It complements the main BPM2008 conference program by focusing on research
problems that arise when the model-driven methodology is applied to
automate the whole lifecycle of business process modeling artifacts.
BPM, as a specific application, provides many unique challenges and
opportunities for advancing the state of the art in MDE research.
Similarly, next generation BPM languages and tools can greatly benefit
from the MDE concepts and methodologies. In order to develop a better
understanding between the two communities, submissions relating theory
and practice of MDE for BPM are particularly welcome.


Topics of Interest

The MDE4BPM 2008 program committee seeks original, high quality papers related
to the following:

- Applications of MDE+BPM techniques and methodologies
- Business Driven Development
- Business Process Model Transformation, Abstraction and Refinement
- Change Detection and Merging for Process Models
- Code Generation Techniques for Business Process Model Execution
- Compilation of Business Process Models
- Execution Monitoring of Generated Process Models
- Governance of Process-centric Software Projects
- High-level Business Process Monitoring and Analysis
- Integration of process models with other modeling artifacts
- Life cycle Management of Business Process Models
- Model-Driven Business Process Management Systems
- Optimization of Compiled Business Processes
- Pattern-based Editing and Refactoring of Business Process Models
- Synchronization of Models across different Abstraction Levels
- Tools and Environments supporting the MDE Lifecycle of Business Processes

Workshop Format and Proceedings

In addition to the opening keynote, the workshop will feature selected regular
papers (up to 12 pages in Springer LNBIP format) which will be published in
post-workshop proceedings by Springer.
Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance,
correctness, originality, and clarity. Submitted papers must be unpublished
and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
The best workshop paper will be selected to be included in a special issue of
the "Software Process Improvement and Practice" Journal.


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 23 May 2008
Acceptance Notification: 27 June 2008
Camera ready: 11 July 2008
MDE4BPM Workshop: 1 September 2008


Paper Submission

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mde4bpm08


Organization

Program Chairs

Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Program Committee

Alistair Barros, SAP, Australia
Steen Brahe, Danske Bank, Denmark
Christoph Bussler, MercedSystems, Inc, USA
Monique Calisti, Whitestein, Switzerland
Jorge Cardoso, Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Roy Gronmo, University of Oslo, Norway
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jochen K�ster, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jan Mendling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany



Contact Information

For more information and inquiries about the workshop,
please contact cesare.pautasso at computer.org