[AISWorld] BPM 2020 Call for Papers

[Cristina Cabanillas Macías]

18th International Business Process Management Conference (BPM 2020)
Sevilla (Spain), September 13-18, 2020
https://congreso.us.es/bpm2020/ <https://congreso.us.es/bpm2020/>


== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

The International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) is the premium forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of BPM. The conference embraces the interdisciplinary nature of BPM to its fullest extent. To this end, the conference explicitly seeks to bring together the finest research contributions and viewpoints from the fields of computer science, information systems engineering, and information system management, insofar as they enhance or refine the existing portfolio of theories, methods and tools for managing and improving business processes.

To accommodate for this diversity, the BPM conference is structured into three tracks: Foundations, Engineering, and Management. Each track covers different phenomena of interest and different research methods and, accordingly, each track has different evalu­ation criteria, a separate track chair and a dedicated program committee.

Track I: Foundations (Chair: Dirk Fahland)

Track I invites papers that follow computer science research methods. This includes papers that investigate the underlying principles of BPM systems, computational theories, algorithms, semantics, and methods for modeling and analyzing business processes. This track also covers papers on novel languages, architectures, and other con­cepts underlying process aware information systems, as well as papers that use conceptual modeling techniques to investigate problems in the design and analysis of BPM systems. 

Track II: Engineering (Chair: Chiara Ghidini)

Track II invites papers that focus on engineering aspects of information systems research. The focus is on the investigation of artifacts and systems in business environments. All papers in this track must include strong empirical evaluations that are rigorous and repeatable and that critically test criteria like usefulness or added value of the proposed artifact (for example by showing considerable performance improvements compared to past work). This track covers business process intelligence, including process mining techniques, and the use of process models for enactment, model-driven engineering, as well as interaction with services and deployment architectures like the Cloud. It also covers BPM systems in particular domains, such as digital health, smart mobility, or Internet of Things.

Track III: Management (Chair: Jörg Becker)

Track III invites papers that aim to advance our understanding of how BPM can deliver business value or competitive advantage, for instance by developing capabilities to improve, innovate, or transform organizations or to tackle the challenges and opportunities of digitalization. Papers that study process thinking, organizational routines, process innovation, and the application and impact of BPM methods and tools in use contexts based on empirical observation are highly welcome, too. Areas of interest include a wide range of capability areas that are relevant for BPM, such as strategic alignment, governance, methods, information technology, and human aspects including people and culture. 


== SUBMISSIONS ==

Each paper must be submitted to exactly one track. Papers must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS formatting guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 16 pages. The title page must contain a short abstract clarifying the relation of the paper with the topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Student papers are treated as regular papers in the review process. Importantly, the contribution under­lying a student paper must be carried out mainly by the (PhD) student(s), but others (advisors, collaborators, etc.) can appear as authors as well. When submitting the paper, student papers must be clearly marked as such in the EasyChair system. To be eligible for the best student paper award, student papers have to be presented at the conference by a student author.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2020 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2020>.

Submissions must be original contributions that have neither been published previously nor submitted to other conferences or journals while being submitted to BPM 2020. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Com­puter Science series.

Innovative papers which have high potential of stimulating discussion at the conference but does not fully meet the quality criteria for the main conference will be invited for presentation at the BPM Forum. Those papers will be published in full length in a separate post-proceedings volume in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series.

First-time submitters to BPM may request to be considered for a pre-submission shepherding program in which a selected BPM PC member advises on the presentation and positioning of a shepherded paper.


== KEY DATES ==

* Full paper submission (strict deadline): 16 March 2020
* Notification: 11 May 2020
* Camera-ready paper submission: 8 June 2020
* Conference: 15-17 September 2020

There is no separate deadline for abstract submission.

Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth (AoE).


== CONSOLIDATION CHAIR ==

Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia.


== MORE INFORMATION ==

Contact bpm2020 at easychair.org <mailto:bpm2020 at easychair.org> for more information.