EVL-BP 2011 - EVL-BP 2011 Third International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011)

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Deadline: March 29, 2011 | Date: August 29, 2011-August 30, 2011

Venue/Country: Helsinki, Finland

Updated: 2011-03-17 13:59:29 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

in conjunction with the

15th IEEE International EDOC Conference

August 29 - September 2, 2011, Helsinki, Finland

http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/evl-bp

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