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The First International Workshop on
Dynamic Process Management (DPM '06) September 4, 2006, Vienna, Austria |
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| Workshop Program | ||||||||||||||||
9:00-10:30 Session 1 |
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| Keynote: Prof. Dr. Peter Dadam, University of Ulm | ||||||||||||||||
ADEPT2 - Towards a New Dimension for Adaptive and Robust Process-Aware Information Systems The target of the ADEPT project is to develop the fundamentals for a WF technology which makes process-aware applications easy to implement and which is much more flexible than today's systems. Very challenging in this context is to achieve this in an efficient manner and without violating consistency and robustness. The AristaFlow project complements these activities by designing and implementing a integrated development environment which will allow to compose new processes in a plug & play like fashion. The talk will illustrate the "technological vision" we are trying to make reality in our research and will explain the technological approaches taken in the research projects ADEPT and AristaFlow to meet these goals. Among other things, the developed framework for dynamic WF changes, which enables both, the quick and correct propagation of WF type changes to in-progress WF instances and the ad-hoc adaptation of single WF instances will be presented. The presentation will be complemented by a life demonstration of the experimental ADEPT process management system and the schema evolution and process instance migration facility, which will be part of the ADEPT2 process management system which is currently under implementation at the University of Ulm. Bio:
Peter Dadam is full professor at the University of Ulm and director of the DBIS department. Before he was director of the department for Advanced Information Management (AIM) at the IBM Heidelberg Science Center where he managed the AIM-P project on advanced database technology. Current research areas include cooperative information systems, WF management, and database technology and its use in advanced application areas. |
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| Workshop Background and Goals | ||||||||||||||||
Dynamic process support has become an extensive research topic in areas like business process management, Web Service technology and engineering workflows with several specialized aspects. This workshop intends to provide a forum wherein challenges and paradigms for dynamic process manage¬ment can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners from dif¬ferent communities and application domains who share an interest in dynamic process support. |
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| Workshop Description | ||||||||||||||||
The agility of an enterprise more and more depends on its ability to dynamically set up new business processes or to modify existing ones, and to quickly adapt its information systems to these process changes. Companies are therefore developing a growing interest in concepts, technologies and systems that help them to flexibly align their business as well as engineering processes to chang¬ing needs and to optimize their interactions with customers and business partners. Related to these business requirements are many technical challenges like, for example, the correct and efficient support of dynamic workflows (e.g., evolution of workflow specifications and dynamic change propagation), the dynamic selection of the best service provider, the optimization of local and global process costs (e.g., process execution times), the dynamic evolution of the own local process as well as its involvement in inter-organizational collaborations, or the handling of security and trust issues in dynamic processes. While there has been major progress in some of these areas, dynamic process support is still a vision when looking at more complex process scenarios or inter-organizational processes. We seek papers that present innovative technology solutions related to dynamic process management, but based on well justified practical assumptions, and sound theoretical foundations. |
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| Topics | ||||||||||||||||
Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
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| Format of the Workshop | ||||||||||||||||
| The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The proceedings will be available at the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper or tool presentation should register for the workshop and plan to present the paper. |
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| Paper Submission | ||||||||||||||||
| Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 5 pages. Papers have to be formatted in LNCS format (link). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/industry paper). Papers should be submitted electronically via the DPM'06 web site (not up yet). Please upload a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file at the conference system. All submissions must be received no later than May 1, 2006. |
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| Important Dates | ||||||||||||||||
| Paper submission: May 1, 2006 Paper notification: May 23, 2006 Camera-ready papers: June 7, 2006 Workshop Date: September 4, 2006 |
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| Workshop Chairs | ||||||||||||||||
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Manfred Reichert Information Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands m.u.reichert AT utwente.nl Kunal Verma Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab(LSDIS), 415 Boyd, GSRC, Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA verma AT cs.uga.edu Andreas Wombacher Information Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands a.wombacher AT utwente.nl |
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