[AISWorld] CfP: BPM 2014 - International Conference on Business Process Management

[Matthias Weidlich]

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Call for Research and Industry Papers

BPM 2014 - 12th International Conference on Business Process Management

7-12 September 2014, Haifa, Israel

http://bpm2014.haifa.ac.il

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The BPM conference is the leading forum for researchers, practitioners,
developers and users in the field of Business Process Management (BPM)
to explore and exchange knowledge on BPM. The conference covers all
aspects of BPM, including theory, models, techniques, architectures,
systems, and empirical studies, and engages the most renowned
representatives of the BPM community worldwide in talks, tutorials, and
scientific discussions.

Given the increasing span of BPM, this year the conference is opening up
to a number of new topics such as business process improvement, studies
relating to business process quality, BPM education and training and
process data analytics and visualization. These new topics add to
existing areas of interest and relevance to BPM research and industry.
The conference particularly reaches out to emerging fields of research,
industrial practice, and applications. Recognizing the interdisciplinary
nature of BPM, the conference also encourages submissions that embrace
other disciplines such as Information Systems and IT Management, Data
and Knowledge Management, Web/Software Engineering, Service-Oriented
Computing, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, and many more.

Besides regular research papers, authors may submit industry papers,
clearly marked as such. An industry paper reports work from within a
context of BPM practice, typically studying requirements imposed by
current practice, identifying new problems, or reporting experience on
the deployment of methods, solutions, tools or systems in practice.
Industry submissions undergo the same review process as regular research
papers and are requested to meet the same high quality standards for
originality, clarity of the contribution, and relevance to the
community. However the review of an industry paper puts more emphasis to
the value of new insights into current practice and less emphasis to the
technical depth and scientific methodology compared to regular research
papers.

BPM 2014 will take place in Haifa, Israel's beautiful seaport on the
Mediterranean. Haifa is situated on the Carmel Mountain, overlooking the
Haifa bay and the mountains of Galilee, and has panoramic views as well
as beautiful sandy beaches. Haifa is also an industrial center, housing
the R&D labs of international corporations. Israel's rich history and
cultural heritage attracts millions of tourists each year, with sacred
places to three religions. Some of these sites, such as Nazareth and the
Sea of Galilee, are in the vicinity of Haifa.

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Topics
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As in previous editions, BPM 2014 will feature a varied set of
BPM-related workshops and co-located events.

The topics for both research and industry papers are listed below. Each
major topic is championed by two senior PC members, who will promote the
topic and lead review processes in BPM2014.

 * Human-centric BPM
   Topic champions: Jan Mendling and Hajo Reijers
   * People-intensive processes
   * Crowdsourcing processes
   * Social business processes
   * User-centric aspects of process management and use
   * Integrating strategy, processes, people and IT
   * Globally distributed process management

 * Management issues and empirical studies
   Topic champions: Hajo Reijers and Michael zur Muehlen
   * Business process lifecycle management
   * Relationship between business strategy and business process
   * Success factors and measures in BPM
   * Business process improvement
   * BPM governance and compliance management
   * BPM maturity
   * Adoption and Practice of BPM
   * Case Studies and Experience Reports
   * BPM Education and Training

 * Management of process execution data
   Topic champions: Wil van der Aalst and Stephanie Rinderle-Ma
   * Process tracing and monitoring
   * Process performance measurement
   * Process mining
   * Process data warehousing
   * Data streaming in business processes
   * Process data analytics and visualization

 * Non-traditional BPM scenarios
   Topic champions: Manfred Reichert and Richard Hull
   * Knowledge-intensive processes
   * Data-driven processes
   * Distributed and mobile processes
   * Inter-process planning and coordination
   * Grid and scientific workflows

 * Process architectures and platforms
   Topic champions: Avigdor Gal and Remco Dijkman
   * Process-oriented software architectures
   * Service-oriented architectures for BPM
   * Workflow management systems
   * Security aspects of business process execution
   * Automated planning for business process execution
   * Resource management in business process execution
   * Process componentization and component repositories

 * Process flexibility and evolution
   Topic champions: Barbara Weber and Richard Hull
   * Process exception handling
   * Adaptive and context-aware processes
   * Case handling
   * Process-enhanced groupware
   * Process change management
   * Monitoring and provenance across change

 * Process modeling and theory
   Topic champions: Oscar Pastor and Karsten Wolf
   * Foundations of business process models
   * Process modeling languages, notations and methods
   * Reference process models
   * Process patterns and standards
   * Artifact-centric business processes
   * Loosely structured business processes
   * Automated process composition and synthesis
   * Process metadata and semantic reasoning
   * Variability and configuration of process models
   * Process simulation and static analysis
   * Business process quality

 * Process model management
   Topic champions: Remco Dijkman and Jan Mendling
   * Process model storage
   * Process model repositories
   * Process model indexing
   * Process model retrieval
   * Process model similarity
   * Process model transformations

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Submission Instructions
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Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS formatting
guidelines (for instructions and style sheets see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions must be in
English and not exceed 16 pages of length. The title page must contain a
short abstract clarifying the relation of the paper with the topics
above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the
goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.
Industry and student papers must be clearly marked as such. Concerning
length and formatting, industry papers must follow the same rules and
guidelines as research papers.

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via the BPM 2014
EasyChair submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2014

Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published
previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in
parallel with this conference.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must
register for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit a paper for a special issue of
Information Systems (Elsevier).

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Key Dates
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 * Abstract submission: 14.3.2014
 * Full papers submission: 21.3.2014
 * Notifications: 23.5.2014
 * Camera ready papers: 20.6.2014

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Conference Committee
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General Chairs
 * Mor Peleg, University of Haifa
 * Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Program Chairs
 * Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland
 * Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa
 * Hagen Voelzer, IBM Research - Zurich

Local Organziation Chair
 * Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa

Demo Chairs
 * Lior Limonad, IBM Haifa
 * Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck

Tutorial and Panel Chairs
 * Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology

Industry Chairs
 * Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa
 * Hajo Reijers, Technical University of Eindhoven

Workshop Chairs
 * Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business
 * Fabiana Fournier, IBM Haifa

Publicity Chair
 * Matthias Weidlich, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology