[AISWorld] BPM at Cloud

[Kyriakos Kritikos]

Call for Papers

1st International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud -
BPM at Cloud 2017
in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and
Cloud Computing - ESOCC 2017

OFFICIAL WORKSHOP CFP: https://www.easychair.org/cfp/bpmcloud2017

DESCRIPTION:
To reduce costs as well as allow a more flexible provisioning of their
business processes (BPs) and services, organisations are continuously
thinking to move to the cloud. However, most of them do not have the
appropriate expertise towards performing this move. As such, there is a
need for platforms which are able to realise respective methods, techniques
and algorithms that provide the appropriate cloud-based support level to
these organisations. This support level should enable organisations to
check which parts of their business processes should be moved to the cloud
as well as cater for bridging the gap between the business and IT level.
Moreover, it should assist in the allocation, publishing, execution,
monitoring, evaluation and adaptive provisioning of these business
processes, thus catering for their appropriate management based on the four
main lifecycle activities of BP design, allocation, execution and
evaluation. By moving and offering business processes in the cloud, the
notion of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is realised which is
projected to become quite profitable for the organisations participating in
its value chain which can play the role of Brokers, BPaaS management
platform operators, or software developers. Thus, BPaaS not only caters for
migrating existing BPs in the cloud but can also become a novel
exploitation product in the cloud stack that will further boost the
adoption of cloud computing.

The workshop invites research papers that deal with any subject that is
relevant for the realisation of the BPaaS vision according to either
business, technical or both perspectives. Research and development work on
facilitating any kind of management for BPs in the cloud is more than
welcome as well as innovative work that attempts to deal with the
well-known business-to-IT alignment problem. Research that advances the
state-of-the-art in cloud computing in areas related to BP management
(e.g., cloud orchestration) are considered quite relevant. Novel cloud
platforms supporting the advertisement and management of business process
or workflows are also relevant. Finally, papers focusing on conveying
practical knowledge or important issues related to moving or managing BPs
in the cloud are also welcome.

TOPICS:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Cloud-based Business Process Migration:
 - Novel methods and techniques on cloud migration
 - Novel methods and techniques for moving business processes in the cloud

* Cloud-aware Business Process Modelling:
 - Business Process Modelling
 - Semantic Business Process Languages and Ontologies
 - Hybrid Business Process Modelling
 - Goal-Oriented Modelling of Business Processes
 - (Semantic) Cloud Service Description Languages
 - KPI Modelling Languages & Ontologies
 - Cross-Layer Metric Models (from business to infrastructure layer)

* BPaaS Design & Alignment:
 - Business process to workflow alignment
 - Semantic Composition of business services
 - BPaaS Discovery & Composition
 - BPaaS & Business Service Model Repositories
 - BPaaS Design Methodologies and Methods
 - BPaaS Design Environments & Tools

* BPaaS Allocation:
 - Cloud Service Matchmaking
 - Cloud Service Selection
 - Semantic Cloud Service Discovery and Selection
 - Cloud-based Workflow Concretisation
 - Cross-layer Cloud Service Selection & BPaaS Deployment Reasoning
 - Business to technical non-functional requirements mapping
 - BPaaS Deployment Description
 - BPaaS Allocation Environment & Tools

* BPaaS Execution:
 - Cross-Layer Cloud Service Monitoring
 - Cross-Cloud Service Monitoring
 - Cross-Layer BPaaS Adaptation
 - Adaptive BPaaS Execution
 - Cloud Service Orchestration
 - Cloud-based Workflow Management
 - Semantic Logging
 - BPaaS Execution Environments & Tools

* SLA-based BPaaS Management:
 - Semantic SLA Description
 - Hierarchical SLAs
 - SLA Mapping between hierarchy levels
 - SLA Management Frameworks

* BPaaS Evaluation:
 - KPI Analysis & Drill-Down
 - (Conceptual) Analytics
 - (Semantic) Process Mining
 - Business Intelligence Knowledge Extraction Algorithms & Tools
 - Best BPaaS Deployment Discovery
 - Adaptation & Deployment Rules Derivation
 - Data Extraction & Linking for BPaaS Evaluation
 - BPaaS Evaluation Environments & Tools

IMPORTANT DATES:
 - Paper Submission: July 10, 2017
 - Authors Notification: August 10, 2017
 - Camera Ready Submission: 2-4 weeks after the workshop

PAPER SUBMISSION:
 - Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above.
 - Papers must not exceed 15 pages including references according to the
Springer LNCS format.
Templates can be found at: http://www.springer.com/gp/
authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636
 - Papers can be submitted electronically from the easychair submission
system at the following URL:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmcloud2017
 - Only original papers can be accepted, not published elsewhere. Papers
will be accepted as full (15 pages long) or
short (8 pages long).
 - Workshop proceedings will be published in Springer Communications in
Computer and Information Science (CCIS) (http://www.springer.com/series/7899)
series.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Claudia-Melania Chituc, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Marco Comuzzi, Unist, South Korea
Schachram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vincent Emeakaroha, University College Cork, Ireland
An Juan Ferrer, ATOS, Spain
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Stella Gatziu Grivas, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern - FHNW,
Switzerland
Farideh Heirari, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern - FHNW,
Switzerland
Christian Janiesch, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Dimka Karastoyanova, Kuhne Logistics University, Germany
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza - Universita di Roma, Italy
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Adria Mos, XEROX Research, France
Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Stefan Wesner, University of Ulm, Germany
Robert Woitsch, BOC, Austria

CONTACT DETAILS:
 * Workshop Chair: Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, kritikos at ics.forth.gr