Fwd: CfP: Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011) at EDOC 2011

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                     Fourth International Workshop on

              Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011)

                        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
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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
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 * 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
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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
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Paper Submission: March 15th, 2011
Paper Notification: May 7th, 2011
Camera Ready Copy Due: June 1st, 2011
Workshop: August 29-30th, 2011


Workshop Co-chairs
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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
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Colin Atkinson, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc, USA
Luciano Garcia-Banuelos, Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Rania Khalaf, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, The Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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