Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Business Processes Meeting Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT) affiliated with BPM 2017 September 11, 2017 Barcelona http://www.pros.upv.es/sites/bp-meet-iot2017/
----------------------------- Business Process Management (BPM) is the body of methods, techniques and tools to manage the processes of an organization (i.e., the chains of events, activities, and decisions performed in a coordinated manner) in order to achieve (business) goals. Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) enables computing to appear anytime and everywhere, becoming "invisibly" embedded in physical objects to sense and respond to their surrounding environment. This embedding allows building a bridge between the digital and the physical worlds. Ubicomp, heavily based nowadays on Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, is revolutionizing many areas, including real processes in cyber-physical domains. But the two areas, which are undoubtedly strictly related and with reciprocal influences, have not yet meet significantly in the research and practice. In the traditional sense, processes represent a specific ordering of activities across time and place to serve a business goal. So far, the predominant paradigm to design (business) processes has been based on the Model-Enact paradigm, i.e., the process has been depicted as a (graphical) process model that then could be executed by a Business Process Management System (BPMS). This largely follows a top-down approach. With the emergence of IoT, the Discover-Predict paradigm becomes a comparative paradigm. The Discover-Predict paradigm is characterized as a bottom-up approach where data is generated from physical devices sensing their environment and producing events. These events are then correlated to detect (complex) higher-level events and to discover patterns. Respective higher-level events or patterns can then be used as input for process mining algorithms. An IoT-aware Discover-Predict paradigm has plenty of potentials. However, also several challenges must be meet. Research is necessary in addressing questions such as: * How does the central role of communication in IoT fit with the control-flow centric view of most BPM approaches? * How to exploit IoT within BPM and vice versa? * How to bridge the abstraction gap between low-level (sensor data) and high-level events? * How to integrate complex-event processing technologies into BPM? The objective of this workshop is therefore to attract novel research at the intersection of these areas by bringing together practitioners and researchers from both communities that are interested in making IoT-based ubiquitous business processes a reality. BP-Meet-IoT will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and practical experiences. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Ubicomp in the BPM Life-cycle: * Design/Modelling/Implementation/Deployment/Execution/Monitoring/Optimization of uBPs Business Process Context: * IoT-based ubiquitous processes for the BPM-lifecycle (analysis, design, execution, monitoring) * Context data relevant for IoT-aware BPM * Context-adaptive BPM * Analytics of IoT data for BPM * IoT and Ubiquitous technologies supporting BPM * Sensor-based task management in BPM * Privacy and security issues Business Process Automation and Industrial Cases: * How can IoT be used to automate activities in ubiquitous business processes? * How can IoT be used for achieving self-healing BPMS? * In which business domains IoT can provide a bigger competitive advantage for BPMS? * Business examples of IoT technologies applied to ubiquitous BPs. * Ubiquitous BPs for Smart Cities and communities ------------------------------------- Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: May 26, 2017 * Authors notification: June 26, 2017 * Camera-ready: July 7, 2017 * Workshop date: September 11, 2017 ------------------------------------- Submissions & Registration Manuscripts (research and industrial papers) should be no longer than 12 pages including references, figures and tables and must be formatted in accordance with the LNCS/LNBIP guidelines specified by Springer. The title page must contain a short abstract and a short list of keywords. Papers should be submitted electronically through easychair. Relevant members of the international community working on IoT and BPM topics will review all submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 PC members in order to guarantee that only high-quality papers are accepted. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. It is mandatory that at least one author will register and present the paper during the workshop. ------------------------------- Organization: Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma Estefania Serral, Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) Victoria Torres, PROS reseach center, UP Valencia
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