Business Process Management (BPM) becomes increasingly important as companies want to increase insight, efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. BPM 2010 is the eighth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings. It will be held from September 13-16, 2010, at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, just minutes from downtown Manhattan. The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality, from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Management Information Science, Services Computing, Services Science, and Technology Management. The acceptance rate at the BPM conference has traditionally been around 15%. In addition to showcasing leading research, the conference provides a venue for the discussion of BPM education, the demonstration of innovative systems with BPM functionalities, and an exchange among BPM practitioners.

Call for Research Papers (Deadline: 14 March 2010)

BPM 2010 continues with the broad-based themes of previous BPM conferences, and strives to strengthen and expand in several key directions. The conference especially encourages emerging research on new conceptual models for BPM understood broadly, models that attempt to unify core aspects of BPM, including process management, data management, business rules and requirements, and analytics, that until recently have been represented using rather disparate conceptual models. The conference also encourages the increasing interest in applying established and new techniques, such as model-driven architectures, Web services and Web architectures, SOA, and Cloud Computing , to the specific challenges of BPM. Finally, the conference seeks to attract papers that highlight the pervasive need for BPM capabilities across application areas outside of business management, including healthcare delivery, digital government, disaster management, and management of scientific and other academic endeavors, and that highlight how new techniques can solve the distinctive challenges arising in those diverse areas.

Call for Education and Curriculum Papers (Due: 14 March 2010)

The new Education and Curriculum track invites papers that examine effective education and training methods for developing the BPM professional. The intent is to share and develop relevant knowledge and to promote fresh ideas for the integration of the broad spectrum of BPM dimensions into training and education courses and/or programs. General questions include the current state of BPM education in universities and/or professional education organizations, what courses and content of those courses are effective at developing BPM professionals, what methods of education/training deployment help BPM professionals understand the holistic nature of end-to-end process-centric organizations, and what types of skills and abilities are needed for BPM deployments and sustainment.

Call for Demonstrations (Due: 17 May 2010)

The Demonstration track showcases innovative Business Process Management (BPM) tools and applications that may originate either from research initiatives or from industry. The Demonstration Track will provide an opportunity to present and discuss emerging technologies with researchers and practitioners in the BPM field. In addition, authors are invited to submit a paper describing their prototype for publication.

Call for Industry Contributions (Abstracts Due: 15 February 2010)

The BPM 2010 industry track will provide practitioners with the opportunity to present insight gained through BPM projects. We are particularly interested in case studies from the perspective of user organizations. We are particularly interested in contributions that address one the following themes:

For more information see http://www.bpm2010.org/call-for-papers/call-for-industry-contributions/

Conference Committee:

General Chairs

Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology
Henry Chang, IBM Research

Program Chairs

Industry Chair

Workshop Chair

Doctoral Consortium Chair

Demo Chair

Contact: info@bpm2010.org

Milan, Italy, 1 September 2008
http://workshop.process-redesign.org

To be held in conjunction with
the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (http://bpm08.polimi.it/)

Workshop Background and Goals

Conscious (re)design of business processes is a powerful means for the pro-active improvement of process performance as well as for the more re-active achievement of higher process conformance. Despite its popularity and obvious pay-offs, process design is still more art than science. Many handbooks on the subject remain vague about how to actually derive superior process designs. The practice of business process design tends to rely on the creativity of business professionals to come up with new process lay-outs, but the outcomes of such efforts are hard to predict. Scientific approaches so far have focused often on only small, well-understood business domains. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modeling techniques and standards. In a way, this is similar to agreeing on the language, without knowing what to say.

The aim of this workshop is to continue the ongoing and successful discussions of the last three BPD workshops to further nurture a body of knowledge on the disciplined, well-understood and appropriately evaluated design of business processes.

We have witnessed in the previous BPD workshops that besides research on BPD methodologies, there is a trend and a focus on addressing constraints in process design, user involvement, process reference models and process design quality.  Papers that introduce innovative tools for process design as well as soft issues (human aspects) and quantitative aspects (e.g. financial evaluation of proposed process improvements) will be particularly welcome.

We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an interest in advancing the state of the art in process design (as in contrast to mere process modeling). We seek contributions by authors who wish to share their innovative ideas and remarkable observations on the subject. Two main categories of submissions/presentations will be considered: a) regular papers and b) industry papers. All submissions have to follow the procedure explained below under the heading “Paper Submission”.

Topics

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

- Process design methods and methodologies
- Process design tools
- Process reference models
- Process innovation
- Constraints in process design (e.g. legislative requirements, compliance)
- Process design governance
- Human aspects in process design
- Use and development of industry blueprints/reference models
- Issues related to process design in large projects
- Linking process design to the design of strategies
- Process design quality
- User involvement, collaboration, coordination
- Maintenance of process designs
- Success factors in process design
- Case studies and experiments

Format of the Workshop

The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers and additional key-notes speakers. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as a post-proceeding volume in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and plan to present the paper.

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, and the length of the paper should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be formatted in the new LNBIP format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 for details). The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. Papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2008 web site. Please upload a self-contained PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than May 23rd, 2008.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 23 May 2008
• Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2008
• Camera ready: 6 July 2008 (strict deadline)
• Papers sent to the Workshop Chairs for inclusion on a CD distributed at the conference and/or a WWW site: 10 July 2008
• Workshop day: 1 September 2008
• Post-proceedings version of the paper (reviewed on the basis of the discussion) by authors to workshop organizers: 23 September 2008
• Delivery to authors and workshop organizers: Christmas 2008

Co-Chairs

Hajo A. Reijers (h.a.reijers@tue.nl)
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
5600 MB, Pav.D14, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Selma Limam Mansar (selmal@andrew.cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University
Qatar Campus,
PO BOX 24866, Doha, Qatar

Michael Rosemann (m.rosemann@qut.edu.au)
Business Process Management Research Group
Queensland University of Technology
Level 5 / 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane Qld 4000, Australia

Workshop Program Committee (tentative)

Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Saïd Assar (Télécom & Management Sud Paris, France)
Hyerim Bae (Pusan National University, South-Korea)
Jorge Cardoso (SAP Research, Germany)
Lynn Carter (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Peter Green (University of Queensland, Australia)
Lilia Gzara (Université Henri Poincaré, France)
Kees van Hee (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Stefan Jablonski (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Monique Jansen-Vullers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Peter Kueng (Credit Suisse, Switzerland)
Jan Mendling (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Michael zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Trevor Naidoo (Oracle, USA)
Stephan Poelmans (VLEKHO Business School, Belgium)
Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany)
Stefanie Rinderle (University of Ulm, Germany)
Mike Soanes (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Roger Tregear (Leonardo Consulting, Australia)
Irene Vanderfeesten (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Call for Papers:

Knowledge Representation in general and Rule Based Representations in particular, are core areas of Artificial Intelligence. Research in these areas strongly influences standards on the web like RuleML or the W3C standards OWL and SWRL. Advancing the theoretical underpinnings and practical impact of these technologies will be an ongoing challenge.

On the other hand, Business Rules and Semantic Business Process Management are growing research and application areas. Business Rules strive to meet the increasing requirements of transparency and compliance: making sure that all stakeholders comply with all rules and regulations at any place and any time. Business Processes are derived form the strategy of an enterprise, and define the requirements of information systems. Here, AI methods such as Semantic Modelling, Knowledge Validation, Automated Planning and Intelligent Agents will play ever increasing roles.

Both areas- Business Rules and Business Process Management-make use of model driven knowledge representations, often in conjunction with application-oriented modeling tools. In the last few years, both communities have realized the potential of knowledge representations with precise semantics. For example, OMG is bringing semantics into business rules with SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules), although without making full use of the benefits and standards already achieved with AI’s semantic technologies in the Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering. Similar observations can be made for other aspects of rule based systems that have already been addressed earlier within AI (e.g. rule capture, inferencing and explanation).

While standards for business process definition and execution have been put forward by OMG, WfMC, and OASIS, there is increasing research interest in combining business processes with semantic technologies. In particular, the concept of Semantic Web Services promises a new level of agility in process execution where AI can contribute insights and technologies from knowledge representation, reasoning and planning.

Generally, the areas of ‘Business Rules’, ‘Semantic Technologies’ and ‘Business Process Management’ are addressed by different communities at present. The symposium aims to bringing together researchers and practitioners from all three communities to educate and inspire each other in order to avoid pitfalls and provide the basis for synergetic cooperation, with the aim of identifying and advancing the most promising points of cross-fertilization.

Submission:

Prospective participants are invited to submit research papers (up to 12 pages) or position papers (up to 4 pages) papers, in PDF format, via the symposium website http://www.easychair.org/AIBR2008/.

Papers should be prepared using the format for AAAI Press proceedings or technical reports. More details on manuscript preparation are available at the AAAI Press Author Instructions page (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php).

All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.

Important Deadlines:

• October 5, 2007: Submissions due to organizers
• November 2, 2007: Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers
• January 25, 2008: Accepted camera-ready copy due to AAAI.

1. Integration of a Business Rules Engine to Manage Frequently Changing Workflow: A Case Study of Insurance Underwriting Workflow by George K. Royce
2. Towards Enhanced Business Process Models Based on Fuzzy Attributes and Rules by Oliver Thomas, Thorsten Dollmann, and Peter Loos (Presentation)
3. Are We There Yet? Seamless Mapping of BPMN to BPEL4WS by Marta Indulska, Jan Recker, Peter Green, and Michael Rosemann (Presentation)
4. An Approach for Capacity Planning of Web Service Workflows by Julian Eckert, Nicolas Repp, Stefan Schulte, Rainer Berbner, and Ralf Steinmetz

The academic program follows the highest academic standards and the acceptance rate has been 15%. Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the most prestigious researchers in all areas of Business Process Management. In 2007, we will complement the strong academic program with a series of co-located events including the “4th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods”, the “1st International Workshop on Managing Business Processes in the Government” and the “1st International Workshop on BPM Governance”, six BPM-related workshops, three tutorials, panel discussions and an industry-only one-day event on Business Process Management. The latter one will be targeted towards the world’s leading BPM practitioners.

22 full papers and 8 short papers have been accepted for the BPM 2007 conference out of a pool of 152 submissions from 41 countries. The list of accepted papers can be found here.