[apologies for cross-posting] ===================================================================== Call for Papers: 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2008), in conjunction with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08)
June 2, 2008, Tenerife, Spain http://sbpm2008.fzi.de/ ++ CEUR Online Proceedings ++ ++ Submission deadline May 1, 2008 (extended) ++ Best papers will be ++ invited for fast-track review in Journals ++ Selected papers will be ++ invited for Springer book ++ ===================================================================== Workshop Theme ============== 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 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 early 2005. 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 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 ====== In particular, we are inviting contributions addressing one or more of the following topics: 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 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 Submissions =========== We inviting full papers, position papers, posters, and demos on all theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Business Process Management, in particular such addressing the real-world business and technology questions to be dealt with in realistic, useful applications for e-Business and e-Government. When preparing your submission, please adhere to the following rules: * Papers must be formatted 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. * Discussion papers, experimental contributions, and system and demo descriptions are limited to 6 pages. * Clearly indicate the type of the contribution, e.g. as sub-title. * Submissions must be in PDF using the workshop submission system for SBPM 2008 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpm2008. Proceedings will be published for the workshop as part of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073). Selected papers will be invited for fast-track review for the ISI-indexed International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) and to an edited book on Semantic Business Process Management to be published by Springer in Fall 2008. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Important Dates =============== Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT, extended) Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2008 Camera-ready versions: May 19, 2008 ESWC'08 Conference: June 1-5, 2008 Workshop Day: June 1, 2008 (tentative) Organizing Committee ==================== Martin Hepp Semantics in Business Information Systems Group University of Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 21a A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6465 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URI: http://www.heppnetz.de Knut Hinkelmann FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland School of Business Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland Phone: +41 62 286 00 80 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URI: http://knut.hinkelmann.ch Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna Institute for Knowledge and Business Engineering Bruenner Strasse 72 A-1210 Wien, Austria Phone: +43 1 4277-39581 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URI: http://www.dke.univie.ac.at/ Rüdiger Klein Fraunhofer IPK Pascalstraße 8-9 D-10587 Berlin, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nenad Stojanovic FZI - Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721 9654-852 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483 Program Committee ================= (To be extended) Andreas Abecker Witold Abramowicz Christian Brelage Christoph Bussler Liliana Cabral Jorge Cardoso Oscar Corcho Tommaso Di Noia douglas foxvog Florian Lautenbacher Juhnyoung Lee Ana Karla Medeiros Jan Mendling Barry Norton Markus Nüttgens Carlos Pedrinaci York Sure Oliver Thomas Contact ======= Martin Hepp Semantics in Business Information Systems Group University of Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 21a A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6465 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URI: http://www.heppnetz.de _______________________________________________ Sap.research.super mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sap.research.super ---- [[ Petri Nets World: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/ ]] [[ Mailing list FAQ: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/pnml/faq.html ]] [[ Post messages/summary of replies: ]] [[ [email protected] ]]
