In the past the BPM conference has been co-located with the Petri net conference. The conference still welcomes papers on the application of Petri nets to BPM.
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Call for Papers
BPM 2006
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006
Important Dates:
Conference dates:
Submission of Papers: March 17, 2006
Notification: May 12, 2006
Final Version Due: May 27, 2005
Conference: September 5-7, 2006
Workshop dates:
Deadline for Workshop proposals: December 31, 2005
Notification of proposal acceptance: January 15, 2006
Deadline for paper submissions: May 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2006
Final version and copyright form: June 7, 2006
Workshops day: September 4, 2006
Conference Organization
General chair
Schahram Dustdar
Program Co-Chairs
Schahram Dustdar
Jose Fiadeiro
Amit Sheth
Industrial Chair
Frank Leymann
Workshops Chair
Johann Eder
Local Organization Chair
Florian Rosenberg
Publication Chair
Marco Aiello
Steering Committee
W.M.P. van der Aalst (chair)
Boualem Benatallah
Fabio Casati
Jörg Desel
Arthur ter Hofstede
Barbara Pernici
Mathias Weske
BPM 2006 is the fourth in a conference series that provides a forum for
researchers and practitioners in all aspects of business process
management. BPM 2006 will be held in Vienna, Austria and is organized by
the Institute of Information Systems, Distributed Systems Group,
VitaLab, at the Vienna University of Technology.
Papers presenting original contributions on business process management (theory,
techniques, methods, software architectures) are sought. The language of
the conference is English.
Topics
Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
- Business process modeling and analysis
- Software architectures
- Processes and service composition
- Business process and e-service repositories
- E-services architectures and technology
- Quality of Service in business processes
- Process planning and flexible workflow
- Formal models in business process management
- Process configuration and assembly
- Process simulation
- Process monitoring and tracking
- Process data warehousing and analysis
- Process mining
- Process patterns
- Security in business processes
- Case handling systems
- Cross-organizational process support, contracts
- Process verification and validation
- Workflow management systems
- Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
- Process-enhanced groupware
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Process Management
- Semantics and Semantic Web Services for Process Management
In addition to the main research track, BPM 2006 will include an
industrial papers track. For this, the conference encourages industry
practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on
innovative industrial implementations and applications of business
process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on
their impact on current information technology or business
practice.
Paper Submissions
Papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2006 web site.
Please upload a self-contained PDF file.
All submissions must be received no later than March 17, 2006.
Papers must be in English. Papers must be original contributions that
have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other
conferences in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper
cannot exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). The title
page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics
covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must
clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the
results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received
too late and submissions sent by fax will be immediately rejected. The
same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page
limit.
For papers submitted to the industrial track there is a 10 page
limit. Industrial papers must be clearly marked as such so they can be
appropriately reviewed by the program committee. Industrial papers
submitted to the industrial track must otherwise follow the same
format requirements as research papers.
All accepted paper will published in the conference proceedings
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. At least one author for accepted paper should register for the
conference and plan to present the paper.
Authors of selected paper will be invited to submit a paper for
a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, an Elsevier
Science journal).
Program Committee
(to be completed)
Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands
Rama Akkiraju, USA
Gustavo Alonso, Switzerland
Vijay Atluri, USA
Karim Baina, Morocco
Steve Battle, UK
Boualem Benatallah, Australia
Brian Blake, USA
Chris Bussler, USA
Jorge Cardoso, Portugal
Fabio Casati, USA
Malu Castellanos, USA
Sanjay Chaudhary, India
Francisco Curbera, USA
Peter Dadam, Germany
Joerg Desel, Germany
Asuman Dogac, Turkey
Marlon Dumas, Australia
Schahram Dustdar, Austria (Co-Chair)
Johan Eder, Austria
Jose Fiadeiro, UK (Co-Chair)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, USA
Stefania Gensi, Italy
Claude Godart, France
Paul Grefen, The Netherlands
Kees van Hee, Netherlands
Nick Jennings, UK
Arthur ter Hofstede, Australia
Geert-Jan Houben, The Netherlands
Gerti Kappel, Austria
Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria
Frank Leymann, Germany
Zongwei Luo, Hong Kong
Kwang-Hoon Kim, Korea
Akhil Kumar, USA
Peri Loucopoulos, UK
Alex Martens, USA
Anne Ngu, USA
Maria Orlowska, Australia
Mike Papazoglou, The Netherlands
Barbara Pernici, Italy
Krithi Ramamritham, India
Manfred Reichert, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Reisig, Germany
Marek Sergot, UK
Amit Sheth, USA (Co-Chair)
A Min Tjoa, Austria
Farouk Toumani, France
Vijay Vaishnavi, USA
Kunal Verma, USA
Mathias Weske, Germany
Roel Wieringa, The Netherlands
Michal Zaremba, Ireland
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
In conjunction with BPM 2006, a series of workshops will take place.
They are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between active researchers,
and stimulate discussions on new and emerging topics in line with the conference topics.
We invite prospective workshop organisers to submit proposals till Dec. 31st 2005
to the workshop chair. A proposal should contain title and topic of the workshop,
information on the indented audience, Brief vita of the proposers and possibly a draft
call for workshop papers. Organisational details for workshops can be obtained by the
workshop chair. All workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Organising Committee.
Proposer will be notified till January 15th, 2006.
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