<div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>***Call for papers and participation***<br></span></span></font><div><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><br>SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Services </span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>(in
conjunction with International Conference on Information Systems)</span></span></font><br>December 15, 2013, Milan,Italy</span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><br>AIS-SIGBPS Website:
<a href="http://www.sigbps.org" target="_blank">www.sigbps.org</a></span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:windowtext"><br>Workshop
Website: </span><span style="color:windowtext"><span> </span></span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.sigbps.org/bps13" target="_blank">www.sigbps.org/bps13</a><br></span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>(in
conjunction with International Conference on Information Systems)</span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></font><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>Theme:
Business Process Analytics</b><span style="color:red"></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>The
growth of Internet-enabled businesses sees an increasing potential of process
analytics to derive additional values in the business process value chain. The
purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss new research directions
in the area of business process management and business service automation. A
critical goal of the workshop is to cultivate high quality research concerning
Internet-enabled business processes and services, which include new
technological advances such as cloud computing, mobile commerce, service
virtualization, and big data analysis.</span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>This
workshop aims to extend the boundaries of research in business process
management by integrating new elements that have not been sufficiently
emphasized in the past. The recent rapid advances in information systems have
created both challenges and opportunities to develop new business services via
innovative business processes. For instance, we know how to automate routine,
formal business processes but have not really attempted computerizing ad hoc processes
that may emerge spontaneously and have short life span. These may include
examples like setting up ad hoc meetings that may involve a number of people
from different places, different IT devices and platforms, an evolving agenda,
a set of documents as inputs and outputs and some decisions and outcomes. Such
meetings are often very valuable but also time consuming to organize and
manage.</span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>Another
important area of interest of this workshop is to promote theoretical efforts
in business processes. The business process modeling and automation research
has been largely driven by the need to solve practical problems. There has been
a lack of strong theories in this area and we believe that it is essential to
develop new theories about business process and service automation. </span><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>Given
the nature and purposes of this workshop, we invite papers of no more than five
pages that are well articulated and formatted in single line spacing, Times New
Roman, 12 pt, 1 inch margins. We particularly seek position papers but also
welcome conceptual papers with a strong theoretical flavor, as well as
completed research papers or research-in-progress papers.</span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>Suggested
research topics include, but not limited to, the following ones:</span></span></font><br></p><ul><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Cloud computing and process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Collaborative processes in social media</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Coordination and cooperation mechanisms for process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Data mining for process technologies and management</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Financial service applications</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Frameworks and methodologies for collaboration processes</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Healthcare and process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Human resource management under distributed process technologies</span></span></font></li><li>
<font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Metrics and measurements in business processes and services</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Evaluations of business process and service implementations</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Mobile commerce and process management</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Organization and culture issues in process automation</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Process competencies in information intensive businesses</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Process management methodologies</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Business process theories and applications</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Technology and architecture issues in process driven organizations</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Telecommuting and process modeling</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Workflows in collaborative operations and systems</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Consequences of process and service virtualization</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Possible emergence of novel virtual intermediaries</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style>Public policy implications</span></span></font></li></ul><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style> Important Dates:</span></b></span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style>Submission Deadline: Oct 1, 2013</span></b></span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style>Notification of Acceptance: Oct 22, 2013</span></b></span></font></p>
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</span></font><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style>Final version Due: Oct 31, 2013</span></b></span></font></p></div></div>