[AISWorld] IOPs 2016: Call for Papers

[Stefan Sobernig]

CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Workshop on Inter-Organizational Processes (IOPs'16)
at the
20th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Conference (EDOC 2016)
Vienna, Austria, 05/06.09.2015
https://iops.wu.ac.at/2016/
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In many cases, inter-organizational cooperation is realized using
concepts and technologies from the field of Business Process Management
(BPM). The BPM lifecycle is typically attributed to include at least the
following phases: Design & Analysis, Configuration, Enactment, and
Evaluation. While there has been tremendous progress in all these areas
in the last decade, surprisingly little focus has been put on overcoming
the rigidity of inter-organizational processes, despite the obvious need
to achieve this in order to enable the distributed enterprises of the
future.

Consequently, the main goals of the International Workshop on
Inter-Organizational Processes (IOPs 2016) are:
* to raise awareness about this black spot in research on business
processes and distributed enterprises;
* to carve out topic areas and challenges, as well as the development of
a research community with a specific focus on correctness,
maintainability, and reliability of inter-organizational processes;
* to discuss and shape the future role of inter-organizational processes
in distributed enterprise computing;

Among a number of challenges, there is a lack of conceptualization and
theory on overcoming rigid inter-organizational processes. The goal of
IOPs 2016 is to map the state of the art and to lay the foundation for a
joint research agenda by providing and discussing contributions in the
topic areas below.

Topics
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Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned
problem domain. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Correctness of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
* Control and distribution of inter-organizational processes
* Data and data semantics for inter-organizational processes
* Consistency between inter-organizational process models and process
instances
* Verification of inter-organizational processes
* Validation and debugging techniques for inter-organizational processes

2. Maintainability of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
* Stakeholder support for modelling and changing inter-organizational
processes
* Alignment between inter-organizational processes and software systems:
methods, techniques, and tools
* Development techniques for inter-organizational processes
* Domain-specific languages for inter-organizational processes
* Change propagation in inter-organizational processes

3. Reliability of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
* Monitoring for inter-organizational processes
* Event identification in inter-organizational processes
* Scalability and elasticity for inter-organizational process enactment
* Security, privacy, and trust in inter-organizational processes
* Fault tolerance mechanisms for inter-organizational processes

4. Cross-cutting Concerns, e.g.,
* General modelling approaches for inter-organizational processes
* Context for inter-organizational processes
* Compliance in inter-organizational processes
* Flexibility, adaptability and evolution in inter-organizational processes
* Process mining in inter-organizational settings
* Standards for inter-organizational processes

5. Technologies for Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
* Ad-hoc and flexible processes
* Cloud-based process enactment
* Event-driven BPM

6. Experiences in Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
* Best practices, success factors and empirical studies
* New delivery models for inter-organizational processes
* Reports on use cases
* Requirements definition issues for use cases

Submission
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We solicit submissions describing substantial contributions of novel and
mature work as well as work-in-progress. Submitted papers should be 8
pages long. Papers should be submitted in IEEE COMPSOC double-column
format and will be published as part of the EDOC workshop proceedings
electronically in the IEEE XPlore Digital Library. Papers must present
original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the
topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above.

Papers can be uploaded via the submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iops2016

Important Dates
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Deadline paper submissions:  06 May 2016
Notification of acceptance: 13 June 2016
Camera-ready papers due: 01 July 2016
Workshop: 05 or 06 September 2016

Organizing Committee
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Stefan Schulte, TU Wien
Stefan Sobernig, WU Vienna

Program Committee
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Anne Baumgraß, Synfioo GmbH, Germany
Kathrin Figl, WU Vienna, Austria
Nico Herzberg, SAP, Germany
Julius Köpke, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Austria
Oliver Kopp, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Philipp Leitner, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Jörg Lenhard, University of Bamberg, Germany
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Sigrid Schefer-Wenzl, FH Campus Wien, Austria
Mark  Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia
Matthias  Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Sorry for crossposting and see you in Vienna!

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