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Call for papers and anouncement
WBPD 2005
1st International Workshop on Business Process Design: Past, Present, Future
In conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management
(http://bpm2005.loria.fr/ )
Nancy, September 5, 2005
Important dates:
Submission of Papers: March 18, 2005
Notification: May 11, 2005
Final Version Due: May 27, 2005
Workshop: September 5, 2005
Workshop Background and Goals:
The conscious (re)design of business processes as a powerful means to improve performance and raise customer satisfaction is nearing its 15th birthday. Since the breakthrough publications on succesful, systematic corporate design initiatives in 1990, streamlining business processes using advanced IT has been on the agenda of almost every organization.
Despite its respectable age and its 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. Consultancies put much emphasis on stimulating 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 on small, well-understood business domains. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modelling 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 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 for contributions by authors who wish to share their innovative ideas and remarkable observations on the subject. Three main categories of submissions/presentations will be considered: a) regular papers, b) abstracts of work in progress and position papers (e.g. for Ph.D. students wishing to obtain feedback on early stages of their research), and c) industry papers. All submissions falling in any of these categories 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 methodologies
- process design tools
- state of the art in process design
- human aspects in process design
- use and development of industry prints/reference models
- issues related to process design in large projects
- linking process design to the design of strategies
- maintenance of process designs
- success factors in process design
- case studies
Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will consist of presentations of papers submitted in advance, which will be peer-reviewed. The form of the proceedings of the workshop will be decided in cooperation with the BPM'05 chairs. Contacts will be made with an International Journal to publish a selection of best papers.
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 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). 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/abstract/industry paper). Papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2005 web site; details will follow. Please upload a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than March 18, 2005.
Co-Chairs:
Tom Davenport (tdavenport(a)babson.edu)
School of Executive Education
Babson College at Wellesley
Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
USA
Hajo Reijers (h.a.reijers(a)tm.tue.nl)
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
5600 MB, Pav.D14, Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Michael Rosemann (m.rosemann(a)qut.edu.au)
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Level 5 / 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
Australia
Workshop Program Committee (not complete):
Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Leonid Churilov (Monash University, Australia)
Marlon Dumas (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Peter Green (University of Queensland, Australia)
Kees van Hee (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Monique Jansen-Vullers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Peter Kueng (Credit Suisse, Switzerland)
Selma Limam (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Trevor Naidoo (IDS America, USA)
Stephan Poelmans (VLEKHO Business School, Belgium)
Brad Power (Babson College, USA)
Wasana Sedera (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Robert van der Toorn (ING Investment Management, The Netherlands)
Roger Tregear (Leonardo Consulting, USA)
Kees Voorhoeve (Deloitte, The Netherlands)
Michael Zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB'05)
Buenos Aires - Argentina - Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd, 2005
[PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS LA-WEB 2005]
LA-WEB'05 is an endorsed regional conference by IW3C2 International World
Wide Web Conference Committee. This will be the Third Latin American venue
for international researchers, technologists, and leaders from academia,
industry, and government. They will gather together to present, demonstrate,
and discuss the latest developments in the Web, and how this can be used to
empower the Latin American Web. The first two editions were held in
Santiago, Chile (2003) and Ribeirao Preto, Brazil (2004). In 2005 the
congress will be co-located and sharing one day on Web Retrieval with SPIRE
(String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium). As in past
editions, the proceedings of LA-WEB 2005 will be published by IEEE CS Press.
Topics
LA-WEB 2005 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
Web. Topics include but are not limited to:
Applications (Area 1),
Browsers and User Interfaces (Area 2),
Electronic Commerce (Area 3),
Hypermedia (Area 4),
Mobility and Wireless Access (Area 5),
Multimedia (Area 6),
Performance and Reliability (Area 7),
Search and Data Mining (Area 8),
Security and Privacy (Area 9),
Semantic Web (Area 10), and
Web Engineering (Area 11).
Papers should cover not only technical but also practical solutions oriented
to solve specific Web problems.
Key Dates
May 23, 2005 Deadline for submitting papers
June 30, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers
July 30, 2005 Papers received in camera ready form
Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd LA-WEB'05 Conference
Submission of Papers
Submissions should present original reports of new work in English. Papers
should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and
clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to
the field. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF, and must be
formatted using the IEEE-CS Author's styles that are posted in the LA-WEB
site http://ing.unlpam.edu.ar/laweb05/. We encourage authors to submit
concise papers with up to 8 pages; however, papers with up to 10 pages may
be submitted, and an additional 2 pages (for a maximum of 12) may be
purchased later.
Programme Committee
Chair
Luis Olsina, National University of La Pampa (Argentina)
Members
Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto (Canada)
Arno Scharl, UWA Business School, (Australia)
Bebo White, Stanford University (USA)
Claudia Pons, National University of La Plata, (Argentina)
Daniel Schwabe, PUC Río (Brazil)
David Lowe, University of Technology (Australia)
Dieter Fensel, DERI, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, (New Zealand)
Enrico Motta, The Open University (UK)
Ethan Munson, Univesity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA)
Gastón Mousques, ORT University (Uruguay)
Gert-Jan Houben, Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina)
Horacio Leone, National Technical University, Sta. Fe (Argentina)
Jean Vanderdonckt, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
João Falcão e Cunha, Porto University (Portugal)
Juliana Freire, OGI (USA)
Maria da Graça Pimentel, USP São Carlos (Brazil)
Mario Piattini, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain)
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome (Italy)
Mitsuru Ikeda, Osaka University (Japan)
Nora Koch, Munich University (Germany)
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Oscar Pastor, Politechnical University of Valencia (Spain)
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Ray Welland, University of Glasgow (UK)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Chile University (Chile)
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil)
San Murugesan, Southern Cross University (Australia)
Sandro Morasca, University of Insubria (Italy)
Silvia Abrahao, Politechnical University of Valencia (Spain)
Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway (Ireland)
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth (UK)
Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, (Brazil)
Yogesh Deshpande, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, (Australia)
Wieland Schwinger, SCC Hagenberg (Austria)
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Dear Colleagues,
Please note the following call for papers. The best papers will be
published in SCI journal and/ or in an edited volume on the topic.
Call for papers
An invited session, promoted by SCI 2005, at the 9th World
Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
(http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005), which will take place in Orlando,
Florida, USA, from July 10-13, 2005 will be on the topic: "System
Dynamics in Support of Decision Making in Complex Systems".
Improving decision making and learning in complex, dynamic
environments presents a major challenge to researchers. The objective
of this special session is to shed light on the work of system
dynamics community, specifically aimed at improving decision making in
complex,
dynamic environment. Innovative case studies, system dynamics based
learning environments based experimental work, and theoretical papers
dealing with the models of making better decisions in complex,
dynamic environments are very welcomed.
Prospective contributors are invited to submit the extended abstracts
(500-1500) words or paper drafts (2000-5000) words, as a single file
in MS Word format, to hassanq(a)yorku.ca by December 31, 2004.
Deadlines: Submissions (extended abstracts or draft papers): December 31,
2004
Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: March 20, 2005
Best wishes,
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, Ph.D.
School of Administrative Studies
York University
4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
E-mail: hassanq(a)yorku.ca
SCIL Fellowship Programme
The Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) offers two
Fellowships in 2005.
The SCIL Fellowship Programme aims at the promotion of interdisciplinary
science
communication on eLearning. The Programme enables experienced
researchers to conduct
a research project supporting the sustainable implementation of eLearning in
educational organisations.
Due date for applications is February 28, 2005.
For further information please refer to:
http://www.scil.ch/programmes/fellowship-en.html
We welcome you to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.