[AISWorld] BP-Meet-IoT Workshop, at BPM 2017 (September, Barcelona)

[Massimo Mecella]

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BP-Meet-IoT Workshop
affiliated with BPM 2017, Barcelona, 11 Sept. 2017

http://www.pros.upv.es/sites/bp-meet-iot2017/
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Business Process Management (BPM) is the body of methods, techniques and
tools to manage the processes of an organization (i.e., the chains of
events, activities, and decisions performed in a coordinated manner) in
order to achieve (business) goals. Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) enables
computing to appear anytime and everywhere, becoming "invisibly" embedded
in physical objects to sense and respond to their surrounding environment.
This embedding allows building a bridge between the digital and the
physical worlds. Ubicomp, heavily based nowadays on Internet-of-Things
(IoT) technology, is revolutionizing many areas, including real processes
in cyber-physical domains. But the two areas, which are undoubtedly
strictly related and with reciprocal influences, have not yet meet
significantly in the research and practice. In the traditional sense,
processes represent a specific ordering of activities across time and place
to serve a business goal. So far, the predominant paradigm to design
(business) processes has been based on the Model-Enact paradigm, i.e., the
process has been depicted as a (graphical) process model that then could be
executed by a Business Process Management System (BPMS). This largely
follows a top-down approach. With the emergence of IoT, the
Discover-Predict paradigm becomes a comparative paradigm. The
Discover-Predict paradigm is characterized as a bottom-up approach where
data is generated from physical devices sensing their environment and
producing events. These events are then correlated to detect (complex)
higher-level events and to discover patterns. Respective higher-level
events or patterns can then be used as input for process mining algorithms.
An IoT-aware Discover-Predict paradigm has plenty of potentials. However,
also several challenges must be meet. Research is necessary in addressing
questions such as:

- How does the central role of communication in IoT fit with the
control-flow centric view of most BPM approaches?
- How to exploit IoT within BPM and vice versa?
- How to bridge the abstraction gap between low-level (sensor data) and
high-level events?
- How to integrate complex-event processing technologies into BPM?

The objective of this workshop is therefore to attract novel research at
the intersection of these areas by bringing together practitioners and
researchers from both communities that are interested in making IoT-based
ubiquitous business processes a reality. BP-Meet-IoT will discuss the
current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and
practical experiences.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Ubicomp in the BPM Life-cycle

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Design/Modelling/Implementation/Deployment/Execution/Monitoring/Optimization
of ubiquitous business processes

Business Process Context:

- IoT-based ubiquitous processes for the BPM-lifecycle (analysis, design,
execution, monitoring)
- Context data relevant for IoT-aware BPM
- Context-adaptive BPM
- Analytics of IoT data for BPM
- IoT and Ubiquitous technologies supporting BPM
- Sensor-based task management in BPM
- Privacy and security issues

Business Process Automation and Industrial Cases:

- How can IoT be used to automate activities in ubiquitous business
processes?
- How can IoT be used for achieving self-healing BPMS?
- In which business domains IoT can provide a bigger competitive advantage
for BPMS?
- Business examples of IoT technologies applied to ubiquitous BPs
- Ubiquitous BPs for Smart Cities and communities


Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: May 26, 2017
Authors notification: June 26, 2017
Camera-ready: July 7, 2017
Workshop date: September 11, 2017


Submissions & Registration
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Manuscripts (research and industrial papers) should be no longer than 12
pages including references, figures and tables and must be formatted in
accordance with the LNCS/LNBIP guidelines specified by Springer.

The title page must contain a short abstract and a short list of keywords.
Papers should be submitted electronically through easychair.

Relevant members of the international community working on IoT and BPM
topics will review all submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 PC
members in order to guarantee that only high-quality papers are accepted.
All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding
volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

It is mandatory that at least one author will register and present the
paper during the workshop.


Organization
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Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Institute fur Technologies
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma
Estefania Serral, Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems
(LIRIS)
Victoria Torres, PROS Reseach Center (UPV)