Third IEEE Workshop on Agile Cooperative Process-Aware
Information Systems (ProGility 2009)
http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/heshuis/progility/

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2009


Held at the 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling
Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
(WETICE-2009), Groningen, The Netherlands, June 29- July 1, 2009
http://www.wetice.org


Workshop theme
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The economic success of an enterprise more and more depends on its
ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and
flexible way. Business trends such as increasing product and
service variability, fast time-to-market, and increasing division
of labor along a global supply chain of goods and services force
enterprises to collaborate with each other in networks that are
dynamic, flexible, ad-hoc, and adaptive. Thus enterprises are
developing a growing interest in new concepts, systems, and
solutions which help them to flexibly align their organizational
structures, business processes, and supporting information systems
to these new requirements and to optimize interactions with
customers and business partners. While there has been major
progress in disciplines that are interested in structured and
unstructured intra-organizational business processes, the agile
enterprise is still a vision. Agility in this context refers to
the ability of an enterprise to rapidly set up new business
processes and projects in order to quickly adapt to changes in the
environment. To support these changes, traditional enterprises
have to align their existing information systems while virtual
enterprises need to customize and integrate the individual partner
processes. In order to meet its business objectives, the agile
enterprise continuously re-aligns its business processes as well
as the interactions with its partners and customers to meet the
current requirements.

Building upon the success of last year's workshop, the goal of
the fourth ProGility workshop is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from different communities such as BPM, software
engineering, service-oriented computing, artificial intelligence,
and CSCW/Groupware who share an interest in flexibility of
cooperative process-aware information systems and team support in
both an intra- and inter-organizational setting. The workshop aims
at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing
practical experiences. In addition the workshop is seeking for
papers on tool and/or technology comparisons. Submitted papers will be evaluated on the
basis of significance, originality and technical quality. Papers
should clearly establish the research contribution and the
relation to previous research. The workshop will also provide
opportunity for demonstration sessions, where participant can
present advanced prototypes based on their research.

Topics
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Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

* ad-hoc establishment of process-aware collaborations,
* adaptive processes,
* agile management of business processes,
* autonomic processes,
* configurable processes,
* cross-organizational processes,
* data-driven processes (e.g.,case handling),
* dynamic composition of processes,
* electronic contracts,
* emergent workflows,
* evolving choreographies,
* flexible groupware,
* knowledge-intensive processes,
* tool and technology comparisons,
* workflow change and exception handling,
* process evolution,
* process interoperability,
* process lifecycle management,
* process monitoring,
* process mining and learning,
* process security and conformance,
* processes matching and similarity of processes,

and solutions related to these topics in terms of:

* architectures,
* infrastructures (middleware),
* methods and tools,
* patterns,
* semantics,
* user interfaces.

Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission: February 20, 2009
Decision to paper authors: March 13, 2009
Final papers in PDF format to IEEE: April 10, 2009
WETICE-2009: June 29 - July 1, 2009

For accepted papers at least one of the authors has to register
and participate in WETICE'09.


Submission Guidelines
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Papers must be written in English. Each paper will be reviewed by
at least three program committee members. Papers should contain
original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and
should refer to related state-of-the-art work. Papers describing
work of progress are explicitly welcome. Authors of accepted papers must present
the paper at WETICE in order have the paper included in the conference proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Press. Papers must be formatted in the IEEE Proceedings
Format (LaTeX formatting macros, Word format) which is single
spaced, two columns, 10pt Times/Roman font. Length of full papers
must not exceed 6 pages (IEEE Proceeding style, double column including
figures, tables and references). Position papers and tool reports should
be no longer than 2 pages. Papers should include a title, the name and
affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no
more than eight keywords. All submissions should be electronic (in
PDF). Please upload first your abstract and then your paper via
the submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ProGility2009.


Chairs
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Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany
Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria (Contact chair)

Programme Committee (to be extended)
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Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
Gero Decker, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mati Golani, Braude College, Israel
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Rania Khalaf, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Heiko Maus, DFKI, Germany
Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany
Marcello La Rosa, QUT Brisbane, Australia
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Ulm, Germany
Michael Rosemann, QUT Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research, Germany
Shazia Sadiq, Univ. Queensland, Australia
Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia
Pnina Soffer, Univ. of Haifa, Israel
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Lucineia Thom, University of Ulm, Germany
Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany
Werner Wild, Evolution Consulting, Austria
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands