Call for Papers 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management in conjunction with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)

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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)

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Technical Description of the Workshop
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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.

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Topics of Interest
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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

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Organizers
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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

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Submission and Proceedings
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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


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Important Dates
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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


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Contact
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To contact the OC members, please find the email addresses above 
Workshop website at http://sbpm2008.fzi.de/


Best regards,
Nenad Stojanovic

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