Call for Papers IEEE M4BPS Workshop

IEEE International Workshop on Management for Business Processes and Services
(M4BPS 2009)

July 20, 2009, Vienna
Workshop Website

-- Where Business Process and (Web) Service Management meet --

Collocated with the 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing
CEC 2009 Website

    Motivation

    Business Process Management and (Web) Service Management are thriving topics in computer science. Both topics have accomplished major progress in recent years and are well on their way to become mature research fields. Although both communities have their own research interests and research challenges, some of these topics overlap. The goal of this workshop is to allow researchers from both communities to explore the possibilities for cross-community collaboration and application of research technologies. An especially interesting domain where business processes and services meet are inter-organizational collaborations. Business processes cross organizational boundaries while they were originally designed for intra-organizational use. Exactly this cross-organizational behavior is what services are designed for. On the other hand, services face the challenge to thrive in long lasting collaborations while being designed for short term, loosely coupled use. As a consequence bilateral communication and management, as used in classical web services, is not sufficient. Exactly this stateful behavior is a mature topic in business process management. In addition to the challenge to function in unknown territory, services and business processes are forced to behave ever more dynamic. Collaborations depend more and more on complex service constellations which have to be aligned with their internal business processes. As the demand for dynamic and flexible collaboration is increasing, organizations need agile management approaches to support management of their business processes and services. The workshop aims to let researches from industry as well as from academic and from both communities benefit from each others expertise. The services community can benefit from the extensive knowledge on flexibility and adaptability of the BPM community. The BPM community, on the other hand, can benefit from the distributed and loosely coupled nature of services to increase their integration capabilities in a collaborative environment. Therefore, we encourage researchers from both communities to submit their research which connects the BPM and the services community.

    Topics

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    • Alignment of Business Processes and (Web) Services:
      • Inter-model Alignment
      • Intra-model Alignment
      • Design Time Modelling
      • Runtime Monitoring
      • Architectures and Consistency
    • Business Process and (Web) Service Modelling:
      • Agility of Business Processes and Services
      • Business Process and Service Evolution
      • Service Level Agreements and Process Properties
    • Service and Business Process Management:
      • Life-cycle Management
      • Inter-organizational Information Sharing
      • Service Mediation and Process Inter-operability
      • Service and Process Monitoring

    Format

    The main goal is to create an interactive workshop where participants are stimulated to discuss. Therefore, each presenter in the workshop will also prepare and present one slide of discussion topics on an assigned paper of another presenter. The format of the workshop is as follows:

    • Paper presentation (15 minutes),
    • Discussion on prepepared topics by colleague about the paper (15 minutes)

    Important Dates

    • March 23, 2009: Submission Deadline
    • April 23, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
    • May 15, 2009: Camera-Ready Version Due
    • July 20, 2009: Workshop

    Submission Guidelines

    Authors are invited to submit original research papers with a maximum length of 8 pages (IEEE style). Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. At least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. All papers selected for this conference are peer-reviewed and will be published in the regular conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

    Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF) is required. The submission system will be available at:
    Submission System M4BPS

    Organizing Committee

    • Andreas Wombacher
      University of Twente, the Netherlands

    • Ernesto Damiani
      University of Milan, Italy

    • Lianne Bodenstaff (CONTACT ORGANIZER)
      l.bodenstaff[at]utwente.nl
      University of Twente, the Netherlands

    Program Committee

    • Taleb-Bendiab Azzelarabe, John Moores University, Liverpool,UK
    • Claudio Bartolini, HP Paolo Alto, USA
    • Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
    • Chi-Hung Chi, Tsinghua University, China
    • Eric Dubois, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
    • Scharam Dustar, University of Vienna, Austria
    • Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
    • Michael C. Jaeger, TU Berlin, Germany
    • Paul Johannesson, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Sweden
    • Cesare Pautasso, University Lugano, Switzerland
    • Manfred Reichert, University Ulm, Germany
    • Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
    • Maarten Wegdam, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands