Dear Colleague,

 

If you develop techniques that can help manage large collections of business process models, we would like to invite you to submit some of your work to the second workshop on process model collections. Please find more information below.

 

Best regards,

Remco Dijkman

Mathias Weske

Hajo Reijers

 

Call for Papers

 

2nd International Workshop on “Process Model Collections”

(http://processcollections.org/)

 

In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management

(http://bpm2012.ut.ee/)

 

Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2012

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Submission of Papers:   June 1, 2012

Notification:                       July 2, 2012

Final Version Due:           July 30, 2012

Workshop:                          September 3, 2012

 

 

WORKSHOP BACKGROUND AND GOALS

 

Nowadays, as organizations reach higher levels of Business Process Management maturity, they tend to possess and actively use large numbers of business process models. It is quite common that such collections of industry-strength business process models include thousands of activities and related business objects such as data, applications, risks, etc. These models are used to solve a variety of modeling challenges, and they are increasingly published to a large number of stakeholders with varying skills and responsibilities. In that sense, it may not come as a surprise that many organizations struggle to manage such high volumes of complex process models. The problem is exacerbated by overlapping content across models, poor version management, process models that are used simultaneously for different purposes, the use of different modeling notations such as EPCs, BPMN, etc.

 

Against this backdrop, the aim of this workshop is to attract novel research in the area of business process model collections. Conceptual, technical and application-oriented contributions are pursued within the scope of this theme:

-              Conceptual work relates to the design of approaches for the management of process model collections, e.g. frameworks and structures to govern the use of such collections.

-              Technical work concerns solutions to operationalize the management, and facilitate the maintenance of content in process model repositories, e.g. via refactoring or abstraction techniques. It also concerns software aspects related to process model repositories such as version management, efficient storage, querying and retrieval of process models, and security.

-              Application papers can provide case studies with, or empirical evaluations of, industrial process model collections and reference process models (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).

 

 

TOPICS

 

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

-              management of process model collections (e.g. frameworks, modeling conventions and guidelines, governance, standardization)

-              refactoring techniques and maintenance aspects (e.g. clone detection, structuring, abstraction)

-              features of process model repositories (e.g. version management, storage, querying and retrieval, indexing, security)

-              process similarity search

-              process merging and consolidation

-              variability management, process configuration and process families

-              case studies and empirical evaluations of industrial process model repositories and reference process model collections (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).

 

 

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

 

The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers and an additional key-note speaker. 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 as pre-proceedings and, potentially in revised form, in the workshop proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing. 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 a paper should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNBIP format. 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 (work in progress/regular paper). Papers should be submitted electronically via the PMC’12 submission system. Please upload a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. All submissions must be received by no later than June 1, 2012.

 

 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

 

Co-Chairs

Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Mathias Weske (Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany)

 

Program Committee

Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Ahmed Awad (Cairo University, Egypt)

Boudewijn van Dongen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Peter Fettke (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)

Luciano García-Bañuelos (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Agnes Koschmider (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)

Peter Loos (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)

Jan Mendling (Wirtschafts Universiät Wien, Austria)

Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany)

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Vienna, Austria)

Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Jianmin Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Matthias Weidlich (Technion, Israel)

Petia Wohed (Stockholm University, Sweden)