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                     1st IEEE International Workshop on

 

         Communicating Business Process and Software Models –

Quality, Understandability, and Maintainability (CPSM 2013)

 

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taking place on September 23, 2013 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in

conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance

(ICSM) Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 22-28 September 2013.

 

 

About the workshop

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In recent years, the fact that models are a means for communication gained

more attention in research on process modeling and software modeling. Both

communities discuss issues related to models, modeling languages, and their

use and perception, such as model understandability, complexity of modeling

languages, actual usage of language features, cognitive aspects, human

perception and subjective perspectives on models, and related issues. These

topics are extremely important for the adaption of modeling languages in

practice, yet the attention from the research community is still limited. The

CPSM 2013 workshop shall provide a forum for researchers and practitioners

actively working on quality, usability and maintainability of software and

process models.

 

The workshop supports the exchange of ideas, challenges, and insights from

two similar domains with the aim of raising awareness of the important "soft

skills" of modeling languages. The workshop will give room to present

research results, position papers, case studies and share experiences and

ideas in panel discussions. Relevant topics are

 

-              Business process model quality metrics

-              Business process maintainability

-              Business process evolution

-              Business process modeling styles

-              Business process modeling patterns and anti-patterns

-              Business process comprehension

-              Relation between business process models and software / system models

-              Software model maintainability

-              Software model evolution and tracking

-              Software model and implementation alignment

-              Software model comprehension

-              Roles and expertise different modeling activities

-              Empirical studies on understandability of business processes and

    software models

-              Empirical studies on quality of business process and software models

-              Industrial cases on communication and understandability of process

    and software models

 

We invite full papers that describe consolidated research results or case

studies, as well as short papers outlining researches still in progress or

position papers. Submissions will be assessed based on their novelty,

relevance, empirical evidence, scientific quality, readability, comparison

with existing and related works, and the extent to which the paper allows to

build bridges between the different domains of process modeling and software

engineering. We specifically want to encourage early results.

 

Format of the Workshop and Proceedings

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The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers and keynotes from

experienced researchers and practitioners. Moreover, we will organize

moderated discussions on hot topics that were raised in the different

communities and emerged from the workshop submissions. All accepted papers

will be published as IEEE Workshop Proceedings. As this volume will appear

after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop.

At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop

and present the paper.

 

Paper Submission

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of

the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Different

paper types are distinguished. Length of full papers (completed research or

case study) must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers (work in progress or

positions paper) should be no longer than 4 pages. Papers should be submitted

in the IEEE style in PDF format, templates are available at

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

 

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 (full paper | case study

| work in progress | position paper).

 

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsm2013

 

Important Dates

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Submission: Friday, June 21st, 2013

Notification: Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

Camera-ready: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Workshop: September 23rd, 2013

 

Workshop Website

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http://www.win.tue.nl/cpsm2013/

 

 

Organization

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-  Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

   (mbrambil@elet.polimi.it)

-  Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

   (i.t.p.vanderfeesten@tue.nl)

-  Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

   (d.fahland@tue.nl)

 

Program Committee

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-  Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

-  Ross Brown, Queensland Univeristy of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

-  Jordi Cabot, INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France

-  Pete Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

-  Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

-  Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

-  Kathrin Figl, Vienna University of Economics, Austria

-  Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

-  Simone Kriglstein, Secure Business Austria, Vienna, Austria

-  Ralf Laue, University Leipzig, Germany

-  Jan Mendling, University of Vienna, Austria

-  Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium

-  Gianna Reggio, University of Genoa, Italy

-  Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany

-  Hajo Reijers, Perceptive Software & Eindhoven University of Technology,

   the Netherlands

-  Gustavo Rossi, UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina

-  Davide Di Ruscio, Università dell'Aquila, Italy

-  Bruce Silver, Silver Associates, USA

-  Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

-  Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

-  Juan M. Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

-  Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria

-  Matthias Weidlich, Technion, Haifa, Israel

-  Manuel Wimmer, Technical University of Vienna. Austria

-  Marco Winckler, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

 

CPSM 2013 is supported by IEEE Computer Society (http://www.ieee.org/).