[AISWorld] FGCS Special Issue on Emerging Computing Paradigms for Business Process Management

[Xiao Liu]

FGCS Special Issue on Emerging Computing Paradigms for Business Process
Management
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-
computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-
emerging-computing-paradigms-for-business-p

Theme and Topics

Business Process Management (BPM) has been referred to as a "holistic
management" approach to aligning an organization's business processes with
the needs of users. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while
striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology.
However, the challenge for large-scale business process management is the
complexity in addressing both the dynamic execution environment and the
elastic requirement of users. Over the last decade, many new computing
paradigms including cloud computing, mobile computing, mobile-cloud
computing, and recent edge and fog computing have significantly impacted
the IT industry, especially how organizations are running their business
applications. These computing paradigms bring both challenges and
opportunities for business process management.

The goal of this special issue is to promote the role of emerging computing
paradigms such as Mobile-Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog Computing in
business process management by discussing (1) what are the opportunities
these new computing paradigm and related technologies can bring to BPM,
including business and scientific workflows; and (2) what are the
challenges to BPM and workflow systems that brought by these emerging
computing paradigms. We are looking for high quality research works
targeting challenging technical issues and also successful prototypes and
case studies like Fog computing based BPM and workflow systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Emerging Computing Paradigms based BPM/workflow concepts and theory, e.g.

Architecture of Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud based BPM Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud based
BPM and Workflow as a Service Conceptual modelling and reasoning for
business process Security, privacy and trust in Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud based
BPM Other socio-technical aspects of BPM in the Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud
Emerging Computing Paradigms based BPM/workflow applications, e.g.

Business and scientific workflows in the Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud Decision
support systems for Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud based BPM Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud
based BPM/workflow for e-Health systems People-/knowledge-intensive
workflows Crowdsourcing and social networks based workflows
Emerging Computing Paradigms based BPM/workflow design, execution and
analytics, e.g.

Quality-of-Service constraints for workflow design and verification Load
balancing and scheduling of Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud workflows Workflow data
placement in Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud Big data analytics for
Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud based BPM Fog/Edge/Mobile-Cloud/Context-based process
mining
Important Dates

Manuscript Due: September 30, 2018
First Notification: December 30, 2018
Revised Manuscript: February 28, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2019
Camera Ready Paper Due: May 31, 2019
Publication Date: Second Quarter of 2019

Submission Guidelines

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal homepage. Editorial system (EVISE) is located at
https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/FGCS . Authors should select "VSI: ECP for
BPM”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission
process at EVISE.

Gust Editors

Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia, xiao.liu at deakin.edu.au
James Xi Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia, james.zheng at mq.edu.au
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia, michael.sheng at mq.edu.au
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia, jian.yang at mq.edu.au


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Dr. Xiao Liu
Associate Head Of School (International) and Senior Lecturer
School of Information Technology,
Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC 3125.

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Email: xliu.swin at gmail.com
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