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 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
Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands
Rama Akkiraju, USA
Gustavo Alonso, Switzerland
Karim Baina, Marocco
Steve Battle, UK
Boualem Benatallah, Australia
Djamal Benslimane, France
M. 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)
Johann Eder, Austria
Jose Fiadeiro, UK (Co-Chair)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, USA
Stefania Gnesi, Italy
Claude Godart, France
Paul Grefen, The Netherlands
Arthur ter Hofstede, Australia
Kees van Hee, Netherlands
Gerti Kappel, Austria
Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria
Haim Kilov, USA
Frank Leymann, Germany
Zongwei Luo, Hongkong
Kwang-Hoon Kim, Korea
Akhil Kumar, USA
Peri Loucopoulos, UK
Alex Martens, USA
Maria Orlowska, Australia
Mike Papazoglou, The Netherlands
Barbara Pernici, Italy
Olivier Perrin, France
Manfred Reichert, The Netherlands
Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Reisig, Germany
Heiko Schuldt, Austria
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
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