- From: Sylvain Hallé <shalle@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:58:01 -0400
- To: Sylvain Hallé <shalle@acm.org>
*********************************************************************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Third International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business *** Processes (DDBP 2009) *** *** In conjuction with the 14th IEEE International EDOC Conference *** (EDOC 2010), October 25-29 2010, Vitoria, ES, Brazil *** *** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp *********************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION 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, dynamic business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation: design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations. Central to the field of dynamic business processes is the notion of requirement, which make dynamic business process particularly suited to a declarative approach to their modelling and design. The declarative approach to dynamic 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 or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements. Dynamic and declarative business processes have proved their use in a wide number of domains, and are expected to impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and standardization efforts. The theme of the 3rd International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes is "On Supporting Business Process Evolution". 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 modelled on top of systems cannot be assumed to remain fixed, and migration between different versions is essential. As a consequence, modelling 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 and/or declarative approaches in this context are required. 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 Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following. Works on dynamic (but not declarative) or declarative (but not dynamic) business processes are also welcome. - Dynamic/declarative business process modelling - Implementation issues for dynamic/declarative processes - Tools for dynamic/declarative processes - Real-world use cases of dynamic/declarative business processes - Business rules and policies - Rule driven business process engines - Business + technical requirements for dynamic/declarative processes - Dynamic/declarative model specification - Mathematical foundations of dynamic/declarative business processes - Formal models of dynamic/declarative business processes - Monitoring of dynamic/declarative business processes - Validation and model checking of dynamic/declarative business processes - Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for dynamic and declarative business processes; - Service-oriented architectures and dynamic/declarative business processes - Interoperability for dynamic/declarative business processes - Semantic Web and ontologies and declarative and dynamic business processes - Collaboration and declarative/dynamic business processes - Data-driven process evolution - Evolution of cross-organisational processes / process choreographies - Complex event processing models/support for dynamic and declarative business processes SUBMISSION The workshop duration is one day. It will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. 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 4th of June 2010. At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 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 special issues in top notch journals. Further details will be announced later. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: April 17th, 2010 Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010 Camera Ready Copy Due: June 16th, 2010 Workshop: October 25-29, 2010 (exact date to be confirmed) 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, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Luciano Garcia-Banuelos, Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico - Wolfgang Mayer, University of South Australia - Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia - Niels Lohmann, Universität Rostock, Germany - Domenico Bianculli, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland - Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Florian Lautenbacher, Universität Augsburg, Germany - Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA - Philipp Leitner, TU Wien, Austria - Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia - Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Universität Ulm, Germany - Wei Tan, University of Chicago, USA - Anton Michlmayr, TU Wien, Austria - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia - Marko Boskovic, Universität Oldenburg, Germany - Rania Khalaf, IBM Watson Research Center, USA - Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia - Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA - Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA - Cesare Pautasso, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland - Colin Atkinson, Universität Mannheim, Germany - Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK *********************************************************************** *** Workshop website: *** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp *********************************************************************** -- Sylvain Hallé, Ph.D. Professeur régulier / Assistant professor Bureau / Office P4-5240 Département d'informatique et de mathématique Université du Québec à Chicoutimi 555, boul. de l'Université Chicoutimi (Québec) G7H 2B1 CANADA E-mail: shalle@acm.org Web: http://www.leduotang.com/sylvain Tel: +1 418 545 5011 ext. 5280 Fax: +1 418 545 5011 ext. 5629
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