[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters - Empirical Studies on the Development of Executable Business Processes

[Daniel Lübke]

Dear All,

we plan to edit a book on emprical studies that are concerned with the
development of executable business processes. Please find below the call
for the book chapters and consider submitting a chapter proposal.

Regards,
Daniel Lübke + Cesare Pautasso

== Scope of the Book

The Empirical Studies on the Development of Executable Business
Processes (ESDEBP) book collects empirical studies that are concerned
with the development and practical usage of Executable Business
Processes in real-world Software Architectures, e.g. model-driven
solutions that are built with languages such as BPEL, BPMN or ACM for
the support, automation of digital business processes.

Executable Business Processes are at the boundary between the business
process management (BPM) and software engineering (SE) disciplines.
Research into BPM tools to develop software solutions has produced many
theoretical results, while practical implications and empirical
applications are still poorly studied

Therefore, the ESDEBP book will collect and compile empirical studies,
mainly case studies, that investigate questions of interests to both
academia (e.g. identify challenges for which no solution exists; new
insights into how existing approaches are really used) and industry
(e.g. guidelines for using certain technologies; guidelines for modeling
understandable executable processes).

We explicitly welcome authors from both academia and industry. However,
we will not include product advertisements. Contributions should focus
on clearly stated questions of interest/research questions, for example
“How high is the proportion of data-flow logic compared to process-flow
logic in executable business processes?”, “Why do developers (dis-)like
BPMN modeling tools?”, “How useful are generated Test Cases from BPM
models?” or “What defects typically occur in production environments
when using service orchestrations?”.

If you are an industry author and have no experience in conducting a
case study, you may contact us for further assistance. One good book on
case study design is “Case Study Research in Software Engineering –
Guidelines and Examples” by Runeson et al.
Also Easterbrook et al. freely published a slide-set for a tutorial on
case study design for software engineers, which also contains a nice set
of example research questions (slide 28).

== Topics of Interest

We welcome any empirical study concerned with the development of
executable business processes. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

    Combination of Process Elicitation and Requirements Engineering
approaches
    Architectures for Executable Business Processes (incl. Microservice
Architectures)
    Dependencies between Integration Architecture styles (e.g. RPC, ESB,
REST, Stream, Blockchain) and Executable Business Processes
    Complexity of Executable Business Process Solutions
    Developer Acceptance and Productivity of BPM Languages and Tools
    Quality Assurance and Testing of Executable Business Processes
    Typical Errors and Defects in Executable Business Processes
    Efficiency of Static Model Checking
    Understandability of Executable Business Process Models by different
stakeholders
    Agile Development with Executable Business Process Architectures

If you have any question about the topic that you want to propose,
please contact the editors.
Submission and Review Procedure

In the first step, interested authors must submit a two-page proposal in
PDF format about the topic of their case study and the empirical
approach (to be) used. The submitted summary will be reviewed by the
editors.
The authors of the best chapter proposals will be invited to submit a
full chapter. The chapter must conform to a prescribed chapter
structure, which will be distributed with the invitation. The chapter
should be submitted as a LaTeX file, for which a Springer template will
also be distributed and be no longer than 20 pages.
The submitted chapters will be reviewed by the editors and the editorial
board. It is also expected that every author of a submitted chapter will
review 1-2 other submitted chapters and provide constructive feedback.
In a second round, the chapter is to be improved by incorporating the
review comments before it can be accepted for publication in the book.

All submissions must be done via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esdebp1

== Important Dates

2017-10-01 Submission of a two-page summary
2017-10-21 Notification of summary acceptance
2018-01-14 Submission of the first chapter version
2018-02-04 Reviews of the first chapter version due
2018-02-11 Distribution of review results
2018-03-14 Submission of the revised chapter
2018-04-11 Notification of chapter acceptance
2018-05-14 Submission of camera ready
2018-09-01 Publication of the bookTopics of Interest

We welcome any empirical study concerned with the development of
executable business processes. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

    Combination of Process Elicitation and Requirements Engineering
approaches
    Architectures for Executable Business Processes (incl. Microservice
Architectures)
    Dependencies between Integration Architecture styles (e.g. RPC, ESB,
REST, Stream, Blockchain) and Executable Business Processes
    Complexity of Executable Business Process Solutions
    Developer Acceptance and Productivity of BPM Languages and Tools
    Quality Assurance and Testing of Executable Business Processes
    Typical Errors and Defects in Executable Business Processes
    Efficiency of Static Model Checking
    Understandability of Executable Business Process Models by different
stakeholders
    Agile Development with Executable Business Process Architectures

If you have any question about the topic that you want to propose,
please contact the editors.
Submission and Review Procedure

In the first step, interested authors must submit a two-page proposal in
PDF format about the topic of their case study and the empirical
approach (to be) used. The submitted summary will be reviewed by the
editors.
The authors of the best chapter proposals will be invited to submit a
full chapter. The chapter must conform to a prescribed chapter
structure, which will be distributed with the invitation. The chapter
should be submitted as a LaTeX file, for which a Springer template will
also be distributed and be no longer than 20 pages.
The submitted chapters will be reviewed by the editors and the editorial
board. It is also expected that every author of a submitted chapter will
review 1-2 other submitted chapters and provide constructive feedback.
In a second round, the chapter is to be improved by incorporating the
review comments before it can be accepted for publication in the book.

All submissions must be done via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esdebp1
Important Dates

2017-10-01 Submission of a two-page summary
2017-10-21 Notification of summary acceptance
2018-01-14 Submission of the first chapter version
2018-02-04 Reviews of the first chapter version due
2018-02-11 Distribution of review results
2018-03-14 Submission of the revised chapter
2018-04-11 Notification of chapter acceptance
2018-05-14 Submission of camera ready
2018-09-01 Publication of the book