[AISWorld] Information Systems: Special issue on Integrating Process-oriented and Event-based Systems

[Matthias Weidlich]

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Special Issue in Elsevier's Information Systems on

*Integrating Process-oriented and Event-based Systems*

Submission deadline: 15th December, 2016

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Process-oriented information systems (POIS) control operations by
coordinating the execution of elementary activities. Recently, there
has been a significant uptake of POIS in transportation, logistics,
and medical infrastructures – domains that impose new challenges in
terms of system reactivity and adaptability. Here, trends such as
sensing of data and advancing system integration represent
opportunities to strengthen the event- perspective in process-oriented
systems in order to achieve more flexible and comprehensive process
control. Event-based systems (EBS), in turn, have been put forward to
integrate heterogeneous systems in a flexible and scalable manner by
separating communication from application logic. EBS have found their
way into many applications where event generation is relatively
deterministic and follows structured behaviour, i.e., events are
created by processes. Exploiting the process-perspective promises to
lead to advancements in the design, analysis, and optimisation of
event-based systems.

The increasing overlap of application scenarios that involve concepts
and techniques of process-oriented as well as event-based systems,
however, is only marginally supported by exchange and convergence of
the related research fields. Despite the manifold opportunities for
cross-fertilisation as highlighted by a recent Dagstuhl Seminar
(http://www.dagstuhl.de/16341/), only a small amount of research has
been conducted on how process-oriented systems and event- based
systems can be integrated. Given this background, this special issue
invites submissions focusing on various aspects of the interplay of
process-oriented and event-based systems. We welcome both theoretical
contributions as well as papers describing interesting applications.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

 - Process-driven distribution of event processing
 - Process-driven handling of event data quality issues
 - Process-driven definition of complex events
 - Process-driven optimisation of event processing
 - Event semantics in processes
 - Process-event correlation
 - Events for flexible and adaptive process management
 - Events in inter-process correlation
 - Event-driven choreographies
 - Applications of event-driven process management
 - Benchmarks and evaluation of event-driven process management

Important Dates

 - Submission: 15th December, 2016
 - First Round Notification: 1st March, 2017
 - First Round Revisions: 1st May, 2017
 - Second Round Notification: 1st July, 2017
 - Final Submission: 1st September, 2017
 - Publication: 1st December, 2017

Guest Editors

 - David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
 - Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 - Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Technische Universität München, Germany
 - Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Submission

Please follow the general submission guidelines of Information Systems:

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys