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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>(Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* APBPM 2014: Third Call for Papers *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>=================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management (APBPM 2014)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Brisbane, Australia, July 3-4, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.ap-bpm.org">http://www.ap-bpm.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*** HIGHLIGHTS ***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Publications: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings as a LNBIP series published by Springer. A selection of accepted papers will be invited for submission to a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice (IJIETAP), which is indexed by SCIE, EI/Compendex, etc. <a href="http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/">http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Important dates: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Full/short papers due: January 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Camera-ready papers deadline: March 7, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Mini-Sabbaticals:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>APBPM 2014 will provide mini-sabbatical (or short research visit) program as an opportunity for the many overseas conference participants to build a closer network with Australia's BPM community. The related collaborations could range from guest presentations, short visits to shorter sabbaticals with certain Australia research institution/s that you would like to collaborate with given your research area.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*** UPDATES ***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Two confirmed keynote speakers: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Professor Hyerim Bae (Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Professor Michael Rosemann (Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>List of Australian Universities participating in the mini-sabbatical program:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>=================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management 2014 (APBPM 2014) is the second edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. It aims to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. At same time, the conference committee welcomes submissions with relevant topics from all over the world. A key objective of the conference is to set up a bridge between actual industrial requirements and leading edge research outcomes to the growth of economic rising powers of the Asia-Pacific region. The second conference will take place on July 3-4, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** TOPICS ****<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The topics for both research and industry papers include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Business process design and modeling<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process modeling languages and notations<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process model repositories<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process patterns and process reference models<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Business process execution<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Workflow modeling and management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Business process monitoring <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process architecture and platform (Open-source BPM, Cloud & mobile BPM, etc.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Adaptive process control<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process driven performance management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process diagnosis <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process mining<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Process knowledge management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Operational intelligence in BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Resource and data-driven BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Context-aware BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Social media and BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Big data and BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Decision science in BPM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Data mining/business intelligence for Business Process<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Experience reports from BPM implementations within the Asia-Pacific region<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Case studies carried out within the Asia-Pacific region (BPM in logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, etc.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ****<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Papers should be formatted according to Springer¡¯s LNBIP formatting guidelines (for instructions and style sheets see <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0</a>). Submissions must be in English. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 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. Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file via the APBPM 2014 submission system (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbpm2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbpm2014</a>). Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** PUBLICATION ****<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by LNBIP. For each accepted (full/short) paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. A selection of papers accepted for and presented at APBPM 2014 will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice (IJIETAP), which is indexed by SCIE, EI/Compendex, etc. <a href="http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/">http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** KEY DATES ****<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Full/short papers due: January 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Camera-ready papers deadline: March 7, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** COMMITTEES **** <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>GENERAL CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ORGANIZATION CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Moe Thandar Wynn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>PUBLICITY CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Zhiqiang Yan, Capital University of Economics and Business, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>STEERING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Riyanarto Sarno, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>PROGRAM COMMITTEE <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Saiful Akbar, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Majed Al-Mashari, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Namwook Cho, Seoul National Univ. of Technology, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Zaiwen Feng, Wuhan University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, Korea <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dongsoo Kim, Soongsil University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Kwanghoon Kim, Kyonggi University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Minsoo Kim, Pukyung National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Raymond Lau, City University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Helen Paik, The University of New South Wales, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Punnamee Sachakamol, Kasetsart University, Thailand Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lawrence Si, University of Macau, Macau, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Raymond Wong, The University of New South Wales, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Moe Thandar Wynn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Bernardo N. Yahya, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Zhiqiang Yan, Captial University of Economics and Business, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sira Yongchareon, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yang Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** MINI-SABBATICALS/RESEARCH VISITS **** <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>APBPM 2014 will provide mini-sabbatical (or short research visit) program in order to increase research awareness and collaboration within the worldwide BPM community. This program is not only a showcase of high quality academic research, but also an opportunity for the many overseas APBPM 2014 participants to build a closer network with Australia's BPM community. The related collaborations could range from guest presentations, short visits to shorter sabbaticals with certain Australia research institution/s that you would like to collaborate with given your research area. More detailed information of the mini-sabbatical program is available on the conference website <a href="http://www.ap-bpm.org">www.ap-bpm.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**** INQUIRIES ****<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Inquiries regarding APBPM 2014 can be addressed to <a href="mailto:info@ap-bpm.org">info@ap-bpm.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>