[AISWorld] SH-PAIS 2011 - Call for Papers

[Juergen Mangler]

Call for Papers:
1st International Workshop on Self Healing Process Aware Information 
Systems (SH-PAIS) in conjunction with ADBIS 2011 conference

Submission Deadline: April 16th 2011
Workshop Page: http://www.univie.ac.at/sh-pais
Date & Location: Sept.19-24th 2011, Vienna, Austria

In order to stay competitive, today's enterprises more and more depend 
on the ability to react to changed economic environments, regulations 
and fast emerging new ideas. In order to stay successful it is necessary 
to adopt these changes fast. With the advent of cloud computing, and 
SOA's in general, enterprises gained access to powerful tools to realize 
the demanded flexibility and scalability on a pay per use basis. However 
the integration of cloud functionality into business processes remains 
still a tedious task. While there has been progress in distinct areas 
like Semantic Service Selection (OWL-S), Service Level Agreements 
(SLAs), Process Evolution and inter-organizational business processes, a 
coherent approach to assess and implement ad-hoc changes is yet a 
vision. We refer to self-healing as a combination of monitoring, 
situation evaluation, and repair capabilities that, under the premise of 
privacy in inter-organizational business processes, allows companies to 
react to QoS and SLA violations at runtime. Self-healing business 
processes are to withstand performance bottlenecks and failure without 
human interaction, yet still deliver correct results. In order to meet 
its business objectives, enterprises should not rely on only a single 
infrastructure provider, but instead be able to effortless replace them, 
in order to meet the current requirements of its partners and customers. 
The SH-PAIS workshop's goal is to bring together practitioners and 
researchers from different communities such as BPM, service-oriented 
computing, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (semantic 
annotations and reasoning). The workshop aims at discussing the current 
state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences.

Submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three program committee 
members on the basis of significance, originality and technical quality. 
The accepted papers will published in the LNCS series of Springer 
Verlag. Outstanding papers from the workshop may be invited for 
publication in an internationally recognized journal (subject to 
additional reviewing).

Papers should clearly establish the research contribution and the 
relation to previous research. The workshop will also provide 
opportunity for participants to present advanced prototypes based on 
their research.

Workshop topics include:

* process interoperability,
* process lifecycle management,
* process monitoring,
* process security and conformance,
* process matching and similarity of processes,
* cross-organizational collaborative processes,
* process choreographies,
* evolving choreographies,
* transactional models for choreography interactions,
* agile management of business processes,
* dynamic composition of processes,
* semantic annotations,
* semantic matchmaking,
* business compliance rule verification,
* QoS and service level agreements,
* SLA negotiation and re-negotiation.


Submitted papers should be related to these topics in terms of:

* architectures,
* middleware,
* methods and tools,
* semantics.

Submission & Dates
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Papers must be written in English. Each paper will be reviewed by at 
least three program committee members. Papers should contain original 
contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to 
related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers must present 
the paper at SH-PAIS 2011 in order have the paper included in the 
post-conference proceedings. Papers must follow the Springer LNCS 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) format and can contain up to 14 
pages (including figures, tables and references). Papers should include 
a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 
150 words and no more than eight keywords.

* April 16th, 2011: Submission of papers
* May 24th, 2011: Notification of acceptance
* June 24th, 2011: Camera-ready papers
* Sept.19-24th, 2011: Workshop and ADBIS Conference

Submission details will we provided through the workshop homepage:

«http://www.univie.ac.at/sh-pais»

Conference Venue
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The SH-PAIS workshop will be held in conjunction with the ADBIS 2011 at 
the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) Vienna, Austria.

For more details please visit:

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ADBIS2011/

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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* Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (stefanie.rinderle-ma at univie.ac.at)
* Jürgen Mangler (juergen.mangler at univie.ac.at)

Faculty of Computer Science, Workflow Systems and Technology Group
University of Vienna
Rathausstrasse 19/9
1010 Vienna, Austria

Program Committee
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* Maria Leitner, University of Vienna, Austria
* Sonja Kabicher, University of Vienna, Austria
* Stefan Schulte, TU Darmstadt, Germany
* Irfan Ul Haq,  University of Vienna, Austria
* Ivona Brandic, TU Vienna, Austria
* Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria
* Khalil Drira, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
* Riadh Ben Halima, University of Sfax, Tunisia
* Chen Li, University of Twente, Netherlands
* Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Thao Ly, University of Ulm, Germany
* Roberto Furnari, University of Torino, Italy
* Bechir Zalila, University of Sfax, Tunisia