<div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>***Call for papers and participation***<br><br></span></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>New deadline: Oct 8, 2013</span></b></span></font>
<font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><br><span><span>SIGBPS</span></span> 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-<span><span>SIGBPS</span></span> Website:
<a href="http://www.sigbps.org" target="_blank">www.<span><span>sigbps</span></span>.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.<span><span>sigbps</span></span>.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 lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Cloud computing and process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Collaborative processes in social media</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Coordination and cooperation mechanisms for process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Data mining for process technologies and management</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Financial service applications</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Frameworks and methodologies for collaboration processes</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Healthcare and process management</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Human resource management under distributed process technologies</span></span></font></li><li>
<font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Metrics and measurements in business processes and services</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Evaluations of business process and service implementations</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Mobile commerce and process management</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Organization and culture issues in process automation</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Process competencies in information intensive businesses</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Process management methodologies</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Business process theories and applications</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Technology and architecture issues in process driven organizations</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Telecommuting and process modeling</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Workflows in collaborative operations and systems</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Consequences of process and service virtualization</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Possible emergence of novel virtual intermediaries</span></span></font></li>
<li><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span>Public policy implications</span></span></font></li></ul><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></font><b>Panel Theme: Certification Merits and Issues</b><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></font>
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At the recent AIS council meeting prior to
PACIS in Korea, it was decided to "Explore whether AIS should develop a
certification program". Towards that end, we are suggesting a panel
session to discuss certification merits and issues to help remove
uncertainties. The notion of certification is certainly not new and
has been widely adopted by various professions to assure competence in a
body of knowledge. Engineering and accountancy as well as various
medical specializations and law are but a few examples. A number of
companies (e.g., Microsoft and SAP) offer certifications of various
sorts. The notion is also not new to IS but has faced stumbling blocks
and progressed little beyond curriculum guidelines. Issues include
level of granularity i.e., general certification versus specific
topics. Should there be a single IS certification or recognition and
accumulation of “Merit Badges”? What content fits in which areas (or
should be included at all) and who decides? Are we sufficiently
identifiable as a profession and regionally and globally consistent
enough to warrant certification? Do students and practitioners
perceive certification as a benefit and do employers really care?
Other issues include implementation and governance e.g., should AIS
engage and what role should SIGs play? To what extent (and in what
forms) should academic institutions be involved? Panel members have
been specifically chosen to represent different views and perspectives:</p>
<ul><li> Doug Vogel is AIS Immediate Past President</li><li>Leon Zhao is Chair Professor and Department Head, City University of Hong Kong </li><li>Fred Niederman is Shaughnessy Endowed Professor at Saint Louis University, USA</li>
<li>Claudia Loebbecke is Professor of IS at the University of Cologne, Germany</li><li>Munir Mandviwalla is Professor of IS at Temple University, USA</li></ul><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span></span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>Important Dates:</span></b></span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>Submission Deadline:</span></b></span></font><b><s><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><font size="4"> </font>Oct 1, 2013,</span></s> </b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>Oct 8, 2013</span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span></font><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>Notification of Acceptance:</span></b></span></font><b><s><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><font size="4"> </font>Oct 22, 2013,</span></s></b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span> Oct 30, 2013</span></b></span></font></p>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></font><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span>Final version Due:</span></b></span></font><b><s><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><font size="4"> </font>Oct 31, 2013,</span></s></b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span> Nov 7, 2013</span></b></span></font></p>
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