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(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) =================================== 2nd Call for Papers Semantic BPM 2008 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management in conjunction with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) June 01, 2008, Tenerife, Spain http://sbpm2008.fzi.de/ Submission deadline for full papers: March 14th, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT) =================================== ------------------------------------------------------ Technical Description of the Workshop ------------------------------------------------------ The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems are representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations. Since 2005, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP-centric IT landscapes. The term “Semantic Business Process Management” has been suggested for the described branch of research in an early 2005 paper, which is now frequently cited as the first description of the overall vision. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project “SUPER”, with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM. In the past two years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities. There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event. In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology. ----------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------- We are inviting contributions in e.g. the following research fields: - Design time aspects of Semantic Business Process Management Semantic modeling of business processes Language issues (BPM languages to SBPM languages) Business rules and SBPM Semantics of existing modeling approaches Mapping between Semantic Web languages and business process modeling Semantic policy modeling and management for BPM Reasoning for verifying semantic business process models Reuse and adaptation of semantic business process models Semantics for Collaborative BPM Run time aspects of Semantic Business Process Management Dynamics and flexibility of SBPM implementations Combination of business rules execution and workflow execution Semantic web services for SBPM Interoperability between conventional and semantics-enabled BPM solutions Semantic analysis of BP execution SBPM to support business activity monitoring and real-time business intelligence Change management and evolution of business processes, including process mining Personalized and context-aware process instantiation Semantic Grid in SBPM Event-driven architecture and SBPM - Practical and business aspects of Semantic Business Process Management Business scenarios and case studies for SBPM in eBusiness, eGovernment, eHealth, production control, collaborative processes in logistics, engineering and management, ubiquitous computing, etc. The role of BPM in SBPM Migration from conventional towards semantics-based modeling Contributions of SBPM for Corporate Performance Management Critical success factors for the practical application of SBPM Business benefits, evaluation aspects, and ROI of SBPM approaches Standardization efforts relevant to or required for SBPM SOA and SBPM Reference models relevant to or required for SBPM Combination of SBPM with quality management and IT service management BPM and Web 2.0 ----------------------------------- Organizers ----------------------------------- Martin Hepp, Semantics in Business Information Systems Group, University of Innsbruck, Austria E-Mail: mhepp@computer.org Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland E-Mail: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Institute for Knowledge and Business Engineering, Austria Email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at Rüdiger Klein, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany E-Mail: ruediger.klein@berlin.de Nenad Stojanovic, FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. E-Mail: Nenad.Stojanovic @fzi.de ----------------------------------- Submission and Proceedings ----------------------------------- Proceedings will be published for the workshop as part of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073). We will pursue a journal special issue with the topics of the workshop if we receive an appropriate number of high-quality submissions. Details on the proceedings and camera-ready formatting will be announced upon notification of the authors. For submissions, the following rules apply: * Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines of the ESWC2008 conference, i.e. according to the Springer LNCS Style. More information is available at http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html. * Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages. * Additionally, we invite discussion papers, experimental contributions, system and demo descriptions which are limited to 6 pages. In this case, please indicate the type of the contribution as subtitle. * Please use the following link to the submission system to submit your paper: Easychair Submission System for SBPM2008 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpm2008 ----------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------- Deadline for submissions: March 14th, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT) Notification of acceptance: April 11th, 2008 Camera-ready versions: May 2nd, 2008 ESWC'08 Conference: June 1st-5th, 2008 Workshop Day: June 1st, 2008 ----------------------------------- Contact ----------------------------------- To contact the OC members, please find the email addresses above Workshop website at http://sbpm2008.fzi.de/
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