[AISWorld] CFP 6th Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management @ BPM 2012

[Christian Janiesch]

6th International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management
collocated with BPM 2012
http://icep-edbpm12.fzi.de/

Tallinn, Estonia, September 3rd

The recently coined term <Event-Driven Business Process Management>
(EDBPM) is nowadays an enhancement of BPM by new concepts of Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Software
as a Service (SaaS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Complex
Event Processing (CEP). edBPM11 will continue the work of previous edBPM
workshops in exchanging novel ideas, methods, tools and solutions for
the event-driven BPM, with the main goal to connect research and
industry in better understanding what can be done from the research
point of view and what is the need from the industry/business point of
view. 
In this context BPM means a software platform which provides companies
the ability to model, manage, and optimize these processes for
significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a parallel running
platform that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and the
CEP-platform correspond via events which are produced by the
BPM-workflow engine and by the - if distributed - IT services which are
associated with the business process steps. Also events coming from
different event sources in different forms can trigger a business
process or influence the execution of a process or a service, which can
result in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a
particular context can be treated as a complex, business level event,
relevant for the execution of other business processes or services. A
business process - arbitrarily fine or coarse grained - can be seen as a
service again and can be "choreographed" with other business processes
or services, even between different enterprises and organizations. 

Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides significant
benefits: 
* Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and
processes respond to them
    immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen. 
* Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and
optimized more quickly
    in response to changing business requirements. 
* Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and
programming languages.
    Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without
breaking the process model. 

TOPICS
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Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the prior described
problem domain. 
* Event-driven BPM: Concepts
  o Role of event processing in BPM
  o Business Events: types and representation
  o Event stream processing in business processes
  o Data- and event-driven business processes
  o Event Processing, BPM and Cloud
* Design-time CEP and BPM
  o Modelling languages, notations and methods for event-driven BPM
  o Event Patterns: Definition/ creation/ representation/ learning
  o BPMN and event processing
  o Modelling events in human-oriented tasks
  o Semantics/Ontologies for event-driven BPM
  o Publish/subscription mechanism and process modeling
* Run-time CEP and BPM
  o Event pattern detection
  o BPEL and event processing
  o Reasoning about unknown/similar events
  o Dynamic workflows
* Applications/Use cases for event-driven BPM
  o Event-driven monitoring/BAM
  o Event-driven SLA monitoring
  o Domains: logistics, automotive, ...
  o Context-aware BPM

SUBMISSIONS
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The following types of submission are solicited: 
* Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel
ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long. 
* Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers
should be at most 6 pages long.
* Use case submission, describing results from an edBPM use case. These
papers should be at most 4 pages long.

Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0). Papers
have to present original research contributions not concurrently
submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a
classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of
topics above, and an indication of the submission category (Long Paper/
Short Paper). 

For submission, please visit
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbpm12.

DEADLINES
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Deadline paper submissions: 1 June 2012
Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2012
Camera-ready papers: 30 July 2012
Workshops: 3 September 2012

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Nenad Stojanovic
  FZI - Research Center for Information Technologies at the University
of Karlsruhe, Germany
  nstojano at fzi.de
Opher Etzion
  IBM Research Lab in Haifa
  opher at il.ibm.com
Adrian Paschke
  Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin, Germany and RuleML
Inc., Canada
  paschke at inf-fu-berlin.de
Christian Janiesch
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  christian.janiesch at kit.edu