[AISWorld] Fwd: Deadline extended - RW-BPMS 2015 - 1st Workshop on the Role of Real-World Objects in Business Process Management Systems

[Claudio Di Ciccio]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Real-world objects in Business Process Management Systems (RW-BPMS 2015) -
1st Workshop
in conjunction with CAiSE 2015, 8-12 June 2015, Stockholm, Sweden

https://ai.wu.ac.at/rw-bpms2015/

Submission deadline: 2nd
​March
 2015 (DEADLINE EXTENDED!)
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​[Apologies for multiple postings]​


The increased availability of sensors disseminated in the world has lead to
the possibility to monitor in detail the evolution of several real-world
objects of interest. GPS receivers, RFID chips, transponders, detectors,
cameras, satellites, etc. concur in the depiction of the current status of
monitored things. Therefore, the opportunity arose to connect physical
reality to digital information. The screening of real-world objects makes
indeed sensors the interface towards real-world information, as they are
the originators of machine-readable events. The exploitation of such
knowledge is leading to successful applications such as Smart Cities,
Flight Monitoring, Pollution Control, Internet of Things, and Dynamic
Manufacturing Networks.

The amount of information at hand would consent a fine-grained monitoring,
mining, and decision support for business processes, stemming from the
joint observation of business-related objects in the real world. However,
the main focus of process and data analysis in Business Process Management
(BPM) still lies at a high level of abstraction, such as activities'
status, and is based on digital-to-digital information, such as information
systems' data- and activity-centric logs. Furthermore, a limited
investigation from the BPM community has been evinced towards the
physical-to-digital bridge so far. Such a bridge would be naturally
provided by rethought information systems, where the knowledge extracted
from real-world objects would best depict the contingencies and the context
in which business processes are carried out. At the same time, awareness of
physical reality for undertaken actions would allow for a better control
over the interaction that the Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs)
have with the real world.

The objective of the RW-BPMS workshop is therefore to attract novel
research and industry approaches investigating the connection of business
processes with real-world objects monitoring. Conceptual, technical and
application-oriented contributions are pursued within the scope of this
theme.

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Topics of Interest
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Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
(1) Real-world objects in decision making, support and process mining
 - Execution/deployment challenges for BPs that include sensors
 - Using real-world objects monitoring for business process execution and
control
 - Integration of data from real-world objects in BPM applications
 - Process control based on real-world objects
 - Mixed physical-digital events correlation and aggregation
 - Mining mixed physical-digital events
 - Continuous mining of real-world events for running processes
 - Case identification from sensor data
 - Event log extraction from sensor data
(2) Real-world objects in business process modeling
 - Modeling challenges to combine static information of business process
execution and continuously updated information of real-world objects
 - Support for decision making based on sensor data for the business
process execution
 - Requirement analysis for integrating real-world objects monitoring with
business process monitoring
 - Opportunities of modeling sensor data in business process models
 - Inclusion of real-world information for the visualization of current
process status
 - Novel visual representations for mixed physical-digital evolution of
processes
 - Modeling flexibility for business process management involving
real-world object interactions
 - Real-world objects status compliance to the business model
 - Compliance of the business model to the status evolution of real-world
objects
 - Defining constraints on real-world objects in business process modeling
(3) Process adaptivity and prediction based on real-world objects
 - Opportunities of mining sensor data to model business processes
 - Opportunities of mining sensor data to control the execution of business
processes
 - Monitoring real-world objects to predict business process execution
(e.g. duration of tasks)
 - Mixed physical-digital data aggregation in event analysis
 - Real-world-event driven process adaptation
 - Studies on the effects of process enactments on the real world
(4) General view on real-world objects in BPMS
 - Empirical research on the integration of real-world objects in BPMS
 - Case studies on the integration of real-world objects in BPMS
 - Best practice for the integration of real-world objects in BPMS
 - Vision papers on the integration of real-world objects in BPMS

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Submission Guidelines
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the topics of
the workshop. Papers must be written in English as full research paper
(max. 12 pages) or short paper (position paper, work in progress, software
demonstration; max. 6 pages). Papers must contain original contributions
that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other
conferences or journals in parallel with this workshop. Each submission is
reviewed by at least three experts in this field.

Submitted papers must follow the Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP) guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically as
a self-contained PDF file using the EasyChair submission site (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rwbpms2015) by the deadlines
indicated below. Accepted papers will be published in the CAiSE 2015
Workshop Proceedings, in a Springer LNBIP volume. At least one author of an
accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.

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Important Dates
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Submission: 2nd
​March
 2015 (extended!)
Notification: 13th March 2015
Camera-ready version: 20th March 2015

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Workshop-Chairs
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Claudio Di Ciccio (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Anne Baumgraß (Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam,
Germany)
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

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Program Committee
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Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Massimiliano de Leoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gero Decker, Signavio GmbH, Germany
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Selim Erol, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Dirk Fahland, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Bogdan Franczyk, University of Leipzig, Germany
Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wout Hofman, TNO, The Netherlands
Bernhard Holtkamp, Fraunhofer, Germany
Christian Janiesch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Stefan Krumnow, Signavio GmbH, Germany
André Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany
Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam,
Germany
Frank Puhlmann, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, Germany
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Hagen Völzer, IBM Zürich, Switzerland
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam,
Germany
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG, Austria
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