[AISWorld] BPMDS'2022 - Call for Papers (in conjunction with CAISE'2022)

Selmin Nurcan selmin.nurcan at univ-paris1.fr
Thu Jan 6 12:35:45 EST 2022


Dear colleagues,

The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business 
processes and their IT support. One of the major aims is to discuss and 
to learn about concepts and techniques to enhance the ability to 
engineer software systems closer the business requirements.

This year’s topic theme, “Reflections on human-human interaction and 
responsibility in a virtual environment” reflects the abundance of 
virtual environments in all domains of our lives.


Since 2012, a special issue is organised per year in the International 
Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) with the extended 
papers invited from the BPMDS working conference.

The papers should be submitted through the conference management system 
available at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2022



Happy and Healty New Year !

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Adriano Augusto, University of Melbourne, Australia


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The 23d International Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, 
Development, and Support (BPMDS'2022)

held in conjunction with CAiSE’2022

6-7 June 2022, Leuven, Belgium

Submission deadline: March 7th, 2022

                     http://www.bpmds.org

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SPONSORS:
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- Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). BPMDS 
is linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE conference series since 2011.
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 
(IFIP WG 8.1).
- Springer. BPMDS proceedings are published in a Springer LNBIP 
proceedings volume, "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information 
Systems Modeling”, since 2009.


The Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) working 
conference has been held for more than two decades, dealing with, and 
promoting research on BPMDS. It has been a platform for a multitude of 
influential research papers. In keeping with its tradition, the working 
conference covers a broad range of theoretical and application-based 
research on BPMDS.

This year’s topic theme, “Reflections on human-human interaction and 
responsibility in a virtual environment” reflects the abundance of 
virtual environments in all domains of our lives. Technologies are here. 
Are we ready to use those technologies in an extremely connected world 
where false information spreads faster than the true one with 
detrimental consequences? Are we mature enough to process the 
information as fast as the computers provide them? What is the meaning 
of a “like” in a professional environment when the ”thing” which has 
been “liked” was not precisely read or understood? How should we enhance 
business process engineering, modeling, and management to master this 
increasing complexity? How could/should human-computer interfaces 
support the issues related to increasing reflexes (fast clicks) to the 
detriment of reflection? A pilot who is using a flight simulator during 
her training is aware that this is a virtual and fictitious platform, 
and she is confident that she will use the competencies she is acquiring 
in this virtual and fictitious environment, later in the physical world; 
the new competencies will be partly due to the mistakes made using the 
flight simulator. On the opposite, is the surfer, who likes or comments 
in an online social network, totally aware that she acts in the “real 
world” (not a fictitious one) when she clicks? Is she aware of her 
responsibility?

Virtual does not mean fictitious. Using virtual environments expands our 
capabilities/frontiers of action in the real world (“real” in opposition 
to “fictitious”). E.g., using voice-based assistants such as Amazon 
Alexa allows integrating people who have been excluded (because of their 
handicap) by graphical user interfaces from using software systems so 
far. Digital technologies enable the creation of new business models. 
E.g. platforms such as Airbnb integrate huge numbers of external 
resources. An important factor to accomplish this is the provisioning of 
information on these resources and evaluating their quality. Both can 
only be accomplished by collecting this information with digital means. 
Consequently, we are more and more drastically responsible for what we 
produce as information.

Organizations and the world are going through huge transformations due, 
in large part, to information technologies and their direct and indirect 
impacts. These transformations impact frontally the information systems, 
which support the business processes of organizations, and therefore the 
actors in carrying out their activities/missions. The speed of 
organizational and societal transformations requires continuous 
improvement and innovation processes. Creativity and responsibility are 
determining factors and require detailed and multi-faceted knowledge of 
the problem to handle and of the context. The unpredictability of the 
related transformations (and more particularly their detrimental 
effects) requires more than ever a systemic vision in the (i) 
engineering and governance of information systems and (ii) in the 
engineering and architecture of business processes ecosystems the latter 
have to support.

The opportunities for evolution and transformation assume the ability to 
capture, store, organize, search and analyze large volumes of 
information and put us in front of many new challenges: meeting and 
mastering the requirements of volume, speed, variety, veracity, the 
value of data, comply with data protection laws, and be fully aware of 
(and responsible for) the components of the new VUCA world (volatility, 
uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). We are all responsible as 
engineers, researchers, professors, and citizens. We need human 
intelligence more than ever.

We are inviting you

     - To discuss and reflect on human-human interaction and 
responsibility in a virtual environment where everything becomes 
information: Social networks, social engineering, discernment, 
reflection vs. reflex, ethics, responsibility, citizenship.
     - To identify the value of all kinds of business process models as 
artifacts for helping us to reflect on those challenges.
     - To bring new artifacts in process modeling related to those new 
challenges to enhance the ability of organizations and humans to act and 
cooperate as structured as possible and as flexibly as necessary.



The topic theme is mandatory for Idea Paper submissions. All other 
submissions are free to address any topic related to the fields of 
Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, which include but 
are not limited to:



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SUBMISSION TOPICS :
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HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTION AND RESPONSIBILITY IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT 
WHERE EVERYTHING BECOMES INFORMATION (topic theme):

- Social networks
- Social engineering
- Discernment, reflection vs. reflex
- Ethics, responsibility, citizenship

Idea papers and experience reports reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic 
are welcome.



The topic theme is mandatory for Idea Paper submissions, all other 
submissions are free to address any topic related to the fields of 
Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support, among which are:


METHODS

- Theoretical foundations for analysis and modeling of business processes
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Methods for the process of process modeling and its optimizations
- Social information systems and their applications
- Process mining
- Business process change management and governance issues
- What are the potential links between digital innovation and BPM (i.e., 
business process engineering, modeling and management) ?
- Awareness about the connected nature of business processes: a business 
process is not an isolated island
- Capability to better understand and analyze the systemic behavior of a 
network of business processes thanks to artefacts (models, visualizations)


MODELS AND NOTATIONS

- Standard and non-standard perspectives on business processes, 
especially concerning data incorporation and analysis
- Meta-model and notation extensions
- New modeling languages and notations
- Domain-specific modeling languages
- Reference models
- Business process modeling in cyber physical environments


BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

- New paradigms and architectures for Business Process executions, such 
as object-aware, data-intensive
- Location and context-dependence of business processes.
- Cross-organizational processes
- Data-intensive business processes
- Systemic view of business processes


BUSINESS PROCESS SUPPORT

- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business processes
- Context-aware work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs. control support in business processes
- How can digital transformation impact agile BPM?
- How do digital assistants impact BPM?
- Enhancing creativity in business processes
- Privacy preserving, social responsibility, ethical aspects
- New platforms such as blockchains and smart contracts

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper Abstract Submission (recommended): March 4th, 2022
Submission deadline: March 7th, 2022
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2022
Camera-ready papers due: April 11th, 2022
Conference dates: 6-7 June, 2022, Leuven, Belgium

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SUBMISSIONS:
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Prospective conference participants are invited to submit a paper that 
concerns the topics mentioned above and all other topics related to 
business process modeling, development, and support. Three categories of 
submissions are welcome:

(1) Full research papers (technical papers or empirical evaluation 
papers) should report results in an advanced stage, including at least 
partial evaluation.

(2) Experience reports present work completed or being completed in the 
context of a real-life organization. The work should have some practical 
goals, and present lessons learned that can be applied in a generalized 
context.

(3) Idea papers related to the focus theme “Reflections on human-human 
interaction and responsibility in a virtual environment”; should address 
completely new research positions or approaches, demonstrating the 
shortcomings of current methods, tools, meta-models, etc.

Full papers with up to 15 pages long or short papers with up to 8 pages 
can be submitted to these categories. The work must be unpublished and 
must not be under review elsewhere.

Papers should be submitted in Adobe PDF format. Submissions should use 
the guidelines  provided in 
https://sites.google.com/view/bpmds/bpmds2022/submission and adhere to 
the formatting instructions at 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Please submit your paper in PDF format through the conference management 
system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2022.


Note that the topic theme “Reflections on human-human interaction and 
responsibility in a virtual environment” is suggested to make this 
year’s edition of BPMDS a special forum for this theme, however, it is 
mandatory for “idea paper” submissions only.

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PUBLICATIONS:
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Accepted submissions will be presented during the working conference, 
and will be published in a Springer LNBIP proceedings volume.

After the BPMDS’2022 conference, selected papers can be published as 
extended versions in a special issue of the International Journal on 
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM, www.sosym.org).

The previous special issues are: BPMDS’21 in progress, BPMDS’20 in 
progress, BPMDS’19 in SoSyM, 20(5), October 2021; BPMDS’18 in SoSyM, 
19(6), November 2020; BPMDS’17 in SoSyM, 19(3), May 2020; BPMDS'16 in 
SoSyM, 18(2), April 2019; BPMDS'15 in SoSyM, 17(2), May 2018; BPMDS'14 
in SoSyM, 16(3), July 2017; BPMDS'13 in SoSyM, 15(2), May 2016; BPMDS'12 
in SoSyM, 14(3), July 2015; BPMDS’11 in IJISMD, 4( 2), 2013; BPMDS’10 
selected paper in REJ, 17(2), 2012; BPMDS’09 in IJISMD, 2(2), 2011; 
BPMDS’08 in JSME 24(3), 2012; BPMDS'07 in IJBPIM, 4(2), 2009; BPMDS'06 
in IJBPIM, 3(1), 2008; BPMDS'05 in SPIP, 12(1), 2007; BPMDS'04 in SPIP, 
10(4), 2005 & REJ, 10(3), 2005, BPMDS'02 in BPMJ, 11(6), 2005.

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ORGANIZERS and PROGRAM CHAIRS:
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Adriano Augusto, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany






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The 23d edition of the BPMDS series, in conjunction with CAiSE 2022
Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support Working Conference
June 6-7, 2022, Leuven, Belgium
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Social and Human aspects of Business Process Management
September 13, 2022, Munster, Germany
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