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<div>I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process </div>
<div>Management 2015 (APBPM'15) - www.ap-bpm.org to be held on June 24 – 26, 2015, in Busan, </div>
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<div>The Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management 2015 (APBPM'15) is the third </div>
<div>edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of </div>
<div>Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. It aims to provide a high quality forum </div>
<div>for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM </div>
<div>technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. At the </div>
<div>same time, the conference committee welcomes submissions on relevant topics from all over </div>
<div>the world. A key objective of the conference is to set up a bridge between actual </div>
<div>industrial requirements and leading edge research outcomes in the Asia-Pacific region. </div>
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<div>The deadline for submission is February 4, 2015. </div>
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<div>The topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:</div>
<div>- Process modeling languages </div>
<div>- Process modeling notations</div>
<div>- Process model repositories</div>
<div>- Process patterns </div>
<div>- Process reference models</div>
<div>- Process configuration</div>
<div>- Process model change and evolution</div>
<div>- Business process monitoring</div>
<div>- Adaptive process control</div>
<div>- Process-driven performance management</div>
<div>- Process diagnosis</div>
<div>- Optimized execution of business processes</div>
<div>- Context-aware process management</div>
<div>- BPM system architectures and platforms</div>
<div>- Service oriented architectures for BPM</div>
<div>- Open-source BPM, </div>
<div>- Mobile and social BPM</div>
<div>- Cloud computing and BPM</div>
<div>- Process knowledge discovery</div>
<div>- Business Intelligence for business processes</div>
<div>- Log analytics in Internet of Things (IoT) environments</div>
<div>- Social network analysis from event log</div>
<div>- Operational intelligence using process mining techniques</div>
<div>- Complex event processing</div>
<div>- Process data analytics and visualization</div>
<div>- Business process improvement</div>
<div>- Data-driven processes</div>
<div>- Big data in BPM</div>
<div>- Decision science and BPM </div>
<div>- Supply Chain Processes </div>
<div>- Logistics process management</div>
<div>- Data mining for Business Processes</div>
<div>- Experience reports from BPM implementations within the Asia-Pacific region</div>
<div>- Case studies carried out within the Asia-Pacific region (BPM in logistics, </div>
<div>manufacturing, healthcare, etc.)</div>
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<div>Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNBIP formatting guidelines (for </div>
<div>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>). </div>
<div>Submissions must be in English. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are </div>
<div>limited to at most 4 pages. The title page must contain a short abstract clarifying the </div>
<div>relation of the paper with the topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem </div>
<div>being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other </div>
<div>work. Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file via the </div>
<div>APBPM'15 submission system. Submissions must be original contributions that have not </div>
<div>been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in </div>
<div>parallel with this conference. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format </div>
<div>via the APBPM'15 EasyChair submission site: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbpm2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbpm2015</a></div>
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<div>All accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by </div>
<div>LNBIP. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and </div>
<div>present the paper. A selection of papers accepted for and presented at APBPM 2015 will be </div>
<div>invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering: </div>
<div>Theory, Applications and Practice (IJIETAP), which is indexed by SCIE, EI/Compendex, etc.</div>
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<div>I will be grateful to you for advertising APBPM 2015 and forwarding the information below </div>
<div>to your colleagues and doctoral students.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Raffaele Conforti (on behalf of the other co-chairs)</div>
<div>Publicity co-chair for APBPM 2015</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Queensland University of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Brisbane, Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Phone: (+61) (07) 3138 0462 </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Web: www.raffaeleconforti.com</span></p>
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