[AISWorld] CfP - BPM 2023: The 21st International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM)

[Andrea Delgado - InCo]

The 21st International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM)
BPM 2023
September 11-15, 2023
Utrecht, The Netherlands
https://bpm2023.sites.uu.nl/

*Call for Research 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. The objective is to enhance or refine the existing portfolio of
theories, methods, and tools for managing and improving business processes.

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

Track I: Foundations
Track I invites papers that have a foundational nature, that is a formal,
mathematical, conceptual or philosophical nature. It focuses on (i) papers
investigating the underlying principles of BPM, computational theories,
formal methods and algorithms for modelling, automating and analysing
business processes; (ii) papers identifying novel problems, novel
languages, architectures and other concepts underlying process-aware
information systems, as well as conceptual papers on frameworks,
taxonomies, patterns and that use conceptual modelling techniques to
investigate problems in the design and analysis of BPM systems.

As papers in this track are not expected to propose an immediate
application in concrete business environments, empirical evaluation is not
required. Instead, determining factors will be their technical quality in
terms of computer science standards (e.g., sound formalisation, convincing
argumentation) and the degree to which the developed foundations permit new
ways of modelling or analysing BPM systems.

You should send your paper to Track I if one or more of the following apply:

* It provides foundational insights about the underlying principles and
concepts of BPM.
* It advances state of the art in BPM through the investigation of formal
methods and algorithms
* It identifies novel problems in BPM, it contributes to the definition of
novel problems, languages, architectures, as well as conceptual models,
frameworks, patterns and taxonomies for BPM.
* It demonstrates technical quality and shows how the developed foundations
permit new ways of modelling or analysing BPM systems.

Track II: Engineering
Track II invites papers that deal with engineering aspects of BPM research.
The focus is on the investigation of artefacts and systems that aim to
solve concrete problems in business environments.

Track II covers tools and techniques for process modelling, the enactment
of process models (including the interaction with services and deployment
architectures) as well as business intelligence (including process mining
techniques). It covers the usage of such artefacts and systems in
particular domains, such as digital health, smart mobility, logistics, or
smart government.

All papers in this track must include rigorous and repeatable empirical
evaluations that demonstrate the merits of the artefact introduced.
Wherever applicable, artefacts should be compared to the state-of-the-art
in a reproducible manner. A self-critical discussion of limitations and
threats to validity is expected. Formalisation of problems and solutions
should be used if they add clarity or are beneficial in other ways.

You should send your paper to Track II if one or more of the following
apply:

* It proposes a significant contribution in the form of an artefact or
system.
* Its results are empirically evaluated in a rigorous and reproducible
manner (reproducibility includes making available the data, code and other
relevant aspects of the evaluation)
* It reports on an artefact or system you designed, with a maturity of at
least a prototype, i.e., it can be evaluated in an application context.

Track III: Management
Track III invites papers that focus on the socio-technical, cognitive or
psychological aspects of BPM techniques/tools/methods as well as managerial
aspects of BPM in and across organisations. It aims to advance our
understanding of how BPM concepts, models, methods as well as the
underlying information systems can be situated in and be used to transform
organisations to deliver business value.

In particular, we seek (1) contributions that propose novel organisational
and technology-enabled modes of BPM, (2) contributions that advance our
understanding of how organisations can develop associated process-oriented
capabilities, and (3) contributions that examine the (cross-)organisational
or managerial impact of novel BPM affordances as well as their context.
Areas of interest include the wide range of capability areas that are
relevant for BPM, such as strategic alignment, governance, methods,
information technology, people, and culture, as well as all BPM lifecycle
stages. Further, all levels of analysis, individuals, teams, entire
organizations, or wider ecosystems, are welcome.

Papers may use various conceptual and empirical strategies of inquiry,
including case study research, action research, experiments, focus group
research, literature review research, survey research, or design science
research. Papers will be evaluated according to current management and
information systems standards. These include a rigorous application of the
selected research method, appropriate motivation and framing, convincing
argumentation, positioning against state-of-the-art, and, wherever
possible, demonstration of the findings’ applicability and evaluation of
the results’ efficacy.

You should send your paper to Track III if one or more of the following
apply:

* It tackles an organisational challenge/opportunity from a
process-oriented perspective.
* It considers all of the following socio-technical aspects from a
process-oriented perspective: technology, task, and people.
* It extends the BPM body of knowledge to better contribute to process
innovation, process-related digitalization, and organisational routines.
* It builds on and draws from real-world organisational endeavours in BPM.
* It contributes to solving grand societal challenges through BPM.

*Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion*
The BPM community is committed to the promotion of diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) in all aspects of our professional activities. We celebrate
the diversity in our community and welcome everyone regardless of age,
gender identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of
origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, and work
experience. We encourage all participants to consider DEI in their writing,
reviews, presentations, and all interactions related to the BPM conference.

*Open Science Principles*
The BPM conference encourages authors of research papers to follow the
principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. In
particular, the conference supports the adoption of open data and open
source principles and encourages authors to disclose (anonymised and
curated) data in order to increase reproducibility and replicability.

The evaluation form for research papers will include an item explicitly
asking reviewers if the research artefacts (prototypes, interview
protocols, questionnaires) or the datasets (used in, or produced by, the
empirical evaluation) reported in the paper are available in a suitable
form. To this end, authors are asked to include in their manuscript links
to private or public repositories where reviewers can find the research
artefacts associated with the paper. This information may be included, for
example, in a “Data availability” or “Reproducibility” subsection. This
requirement does not apply to papers that neither involve an empirical
study nor a prototype implementation.

Authors who prefer not to make their research artefacts and datasets
accessible to the program committee are asked to comment in their submitted
manuscript on why this is not possible, practical, or desirable. This
statement may be deleted in the final version of the paper if it gets
accepted. Possible reasons may involve privacy restrictions or
non-disclosure agreements. While sharing research artefacts is not
mandatory for submission or acceptance, the program committee members may
use this information to inform their decision.

Authors are encouraged to make the used datasets accessible via public
repositories (e.g., Zenodo, Figshare, GitHub, or institutional archives)
under an open data license such as the CC0 dedication or the CC-BY 4.0
license. Making datasets available via cloud services such as Dropbox or
Google Docs is undesirable given the volatility of the links produced by
these services.

We encourage authors to self-archive their pre- and post-prints in open,
preserved repositories, such as their institutional preprint repository,
arXiv or other non-profit services, in line with Springer’s copyright
agreement (see “License to Publish form for LNCS, CCIS or LNBIP”, §3,
available at
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
).

*Submission*
Each paper must be submitted to exactly one track. Please use the track
descriptions above to decide where to send your paper. Authors may contact
track chairs for clarification. Papers must be formatted according to
Springer’s LNCS formatting guidelines (
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Submissions must be in English and cannot 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 (Ph.D.) student(s), but others (advisors, collaborators,
etc.) may appear as authors as well. Student papers must be clearly marked
as such in the EasyChair system when submitting the paper. Student papers
have to be presented at the conference by a student author to be eligible
for the best student paper award.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the BPM 2023
EasyChair submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2023).

Submissions must be original contributions that have neither been published
previously nor submitted to other conferences or journals while being
submitted to BPM 2023.

*Important dates*
Abstract Registration Due:    Mar 15, 2023
Submission Deadline:           Mar 22, 2023
Notification Due:                    May, 17, 2023

All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time (AOE = GMT – 12). Check the
time in the AOE Zone here: https://time.is/AOE

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by
Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each
accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and
present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an
extended version to a special issue in Elsevier’s Information Systems
(Tracks I and II) and to Springer’s Business & Information Systems
Engineering special issue on “Managing the Dynamics of Business Processes”
(Track III).

Innovative papers which have a high potential of stimulating discussion at
the conference but do 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 (LNBIP) series and be
presented during the main conference. There will be no short papers.

First-time submitters to BPM may request to be considered for a
pre-submission shepherding program. Shepherds are selected BPM PC members
who can advise on the presentation and positioning of a paper. Interested
candidates are encouraged to contact the PC Chairs by 25.01.2023, at the
latest.

*Chairs*
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia (Consolidation Chair)
Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (Track Chair,
Track I)
Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (Track Chair,
Track II)
Christian Janiesch, TU Dortmund University, Germany (Track Chair, Track III)

-- 
Dra. Ing. Andrea Delgado
Profesora Agregada
Instituto de Computación
Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR
J. Herrera y Reissig 565
Montevideo, 11300, Uruguay

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