Dear Colleague,
The BPMDS workhop series has produced 10 workshops from 1998 to 2009. One
of the major aims is to discuss and to learn about concepts and techniques
to enhance the ability to engineer software systems closer the business
requirements.
The theme of this year is "Multi dimensional Perspectives on Business
Processes". The workshop is sponsored by IFIP WG8.1 (International
Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1)
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (joint with
EMMSAD), to be published by Springer LNBIP.
The proceedings of BPMDS09 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u67l87/.
Please find underneath the Call for Paper of the BPMDS'2010 workshop in
conjunction with CAISE'2010.
I will be grateful to you for advertising BPMDS'2010 and inviting your
colleagues and/or research students to submit their work.
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year 2010.
Selmin Nurcan
On behalf of BPMDS'2010 Organising Committee
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Call for Papers
In Conjunction with CAiSE2010
The 11th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support
(BPMDS'2010)
Multi dimensional Perspectives on Business Processes
7-8 June, Hammamet, Tunisia
Papers submission deadline: February 18th, 2010
sponsored by IFIP WG8.1 (International Federation for Information
Processing Working Group 8.1)
The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'2010 Web site
http://lams.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds10/
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BPMDS 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 11th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support
(BPMDS'2010)
7-8 June, Hammamet, Tunisia
Papers submission deadline: February, 18th, 2010
http://lams.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds10/
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
A business process (BP) is a complex phenomenon that can be
viewed/analyzed/designed/criticized from different perspectives. A
perspective is a particular view on a process that can be characterized by
who is viewing the process, and what one chooses to see/not to see. For
example, an external observer that watches process instances as they happen
in real life, and a process developer designing a device for controlling
these instances will have two different sets of perspectives. For example,
an external observer viewing operations (activities) completed in the frame
of a business process gets a workflow perspective on the process. A
developer designing a device for controlling the flow of activities will
refer to the same perspective as to control-flow perspective. Another
example of a perspective: an external observer viewing how objects that are
processed in the frame of a process are transferred between different units
(agents) can call this view a logistical perspective on the process.
Various modeling languages and notations differ by which and whose
perspective they take on a business process. In theory as well as in
practice, the workflow/control-flow perspective, also well known as
activity-driven, was dominant for a long time. For highly structured
processes, the focus on activity-driven perspective satisfied the needs of
BPM practice. However, as the BP domain expanded to the less structured
flexible processes in flexible environments, the one-sidedness of the
modeling techniques and systems based on the dominant perspective became
apparent. An attempt to fix the problem by adding many additional
components to the activity-driven view has not proven to be a proper
solution. As a case with BPMN shows, it creates a highly complicated
notation that a normal participant of a business process can generally not
understand. BP theory and practice require the ability to engage with
business processes in multiple perspectives in the same way as a scene can
be photographed from different angles, providing differentiated views on
the same scene.
The main theme of this year workshop is discussion of various non-dominant
perspectives on business processes and their integration. Some of the
perspectives that are discussed in the literature are listed at the end of
this call for papers. However, we do not consider the list as closed, any
proposal for new perspectives are welcome.
In summary, the workshop will be devoted to the following three questions:
- Non-dominant perspectives/sets of perspectives on business processes
- Finding out which perspectives are most appropriate to particular
practical and/or theoretical business process modeling, development and
support (BPMDS) tasks; finding BPMDS tasks/problems that can be
accomplished/solved when using a particular perspective
- Connecting several perspectives (including a dominant one) together. Each
perspective can be considered as a projection of the business process in a
particular dimension and a set of perspectives can be considered as a way
of organizing a multi-dimensional space. Therefore, connecting several
perspectives can provide a multi-dimensional representation of the business
process. Creating and visualizing such a model as well as converting one
set of perspectives (e.g. the external observers) into another set (e.g.
developer) is also of interest for discussion in the BPMDS2010 workshop.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP :
The BPMDS series has produced 10 workshops from 1998 to 2009. Eight of
these workshops, including the last seven (BPMDS03 BPMDS09) were held
in conjunction with CAiSE conferences. The topics addressed by the BPMDS
workshops are focused on IT support for business processes. This is one of
the keystones of Information Systems theory. We strongly believe that any
major conference in the area of Information Systems needs to address such
topics independently of the current fashion. The continued interest in
these topics on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the success of
the last BPMDS workshops and the recent emergence of new conferences
devoted to the theme.
The aim of a workshop is discussions, rather than presentations. Besides
research papers, the workshop encourages visionary and practical papers.
Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or
unsuccessful practice, or describe experience are all welcome. Submissions
are selected based on the relevance to the workshop theme, and potential to
facilitate interesting discussions (beside of being clearly written).
The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the web site:
http://www.ibissoft.se/bpmds.html
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :
During the workshop, the following more specific topics will be addressed:
1. Examples of non-dominant perspectives that are of interest for
discussion [see a non exhaustive list of other perspectives at the end of
the call for paper]:
Goal perspective
State perspective
Context perspective
Resource/agent perspective
2. Examples of Business Process Modeling, Development and Support
activities for which the suitable perspective(s) should be found:
Resource management
Finding metrics for process quality management
Aligning processes with their context
3. Examples of methods for integrating/connecting different
perspectives/sets of perspectives
Connecting perspectives via artifacts (products of the modeling
activities)
Verifying/validating the coherence of the whole
Maintaining the coherence through business change
Besides the above, we would like to discuss/listen about any experience of
using non-dominant perspectives for addressing the following issues:
Granularity, dynamic configuration, modeling by reuse
Importance of the creation of reusable and context-aware artifacts
Win-win situation between efficiency and flexibility in business
process modeling and execution
Trade-off situations: efficiency, adequacy, variability,
Real-life applications
SUBMISSIONS:
Papers submission deadline: February 18th, 2010
Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to
one or more of the main topics. The paper selection will be based upon the
relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and
potential to generate relevant discussion.
Three kinds of submissions are possible.
(1) Full research papers of up to 13 pages in LNCS format.
(2) Experience reports of up to 13 pages (see guidelines in
http://processplatsen.ibissoft.se/node/72).
(3) Short position papers of up to 6 pages, devoted to research in progress
or to visionary ideas or to position papers.
Please follow the LNCS format instructions at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for all of them.
The papers should be emailed to [email protected], indicating
the kind of paper submitted.
PUBLICATIONS:
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (joint with
EMMSAD), to be published by Springer LNBIP.
The proceedings of BPMDS09 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u67l87/.
After the workshop, the workshop material together with a selection of the
best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an
international journal (previous special issues: BPMDS09 in IJISMD in
progress; BPMDS08 in SPIP in progress; BPMDS'07 in IJBPIM,
<http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=115&year=2009&vol=4&;
issue=2>vol. 4, issue 2, 2009; BPMDS'06 in IJBPIM,
<http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=115&year=2008&vol=3&;
issue=1>vol. 3, issue 1, 2008; BPMDS'05 in SPIP,
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114099242/issue>vol. 12, issue
1, 2007)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: February 18, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: March 20, 2010
ORGANIZERS:
Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Roland Ukor, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Wil van der Aalst Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Sebastian Adam Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Antonia Albani Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ian Alexander Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden
Stewart Green University of the West of England, UK
Paul Johannesson Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia
Peri Loucopoulos Loughborough University, UK
Renata Mendes de Araujo Federal University of the State of Rio de
Janeiro, Brasil
Jan Mendling Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Selmin Nurcan University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Louis-Francois Pau Erasmus University, Netherlands
Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Gil Regev EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert University of Ulm, Germany
Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Schmidt University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier University of Toronto, Canada
Lars Taxén Linköping University, Sweden
Roland Ukor School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
Barbara Weber University of Insbruk, Austria
Jelena Zdravkovic Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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