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*			   1st Call for Papers			       *
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*		       for 1 day workshop PMBI2011		       *
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*	*** Protocol-based Modelling of Business Interactions ***      *
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*	http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2011/index_en.html      *
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*	       Co-located with the 41. Jahrestagung of the	       *
*		 German Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.		*
*		  04.-07.October 2011, Berlin, Germany		       *
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Deadline prolonged to 08. May 2011!


Summary
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This full-day workshop focuses on the practical and theoretical consequences of
the approach to describe business interactions within the framework of protocol
theory.

Content
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The relevance of software directly involved in business interactions has 
enormously grown in modern commerce within the last years.

Therefore, it is an obvious requirement that business software which supports 
business interactions should mirror the orientation of entrepreneurial acting 
along the business interactions in the simplest possible way.

To become runtime relevant from an application perspective, the interpretation 
of the descriptions of business interactions has to be unambiguously related to

computational systems.

We expect a promising impetus with respect to the automated implementation of 
business interactions. Especially small and medium enterprises should benefit 
as they are currently discouraged to explore this area by the still high 
initial investments.

The starting point of this workshop is the assumption that economics with its 
game theory based notion describes the same interactions as computer science 
does with its descriptions of nondeterministic interactions of business 
processes. Due to the tight formal relation between (economic) game and 
(computer science) protocol, it is obvious to use the protocol notion not just 
for informal illustrations, as many contemporary approaches do, but also to 
view protocol theory as a sound formal base for the description of business 
interactions in the sense of a theory for consistent finite interaction of 
(possibly finite) systems.

Adressees
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This workshop brings together scientist of the field of business informatics
with a special interest in business interactions and scientist of the more
theoretical oriented field of protocol theory. We therefore invite scientific
contributions which demonstrate the relevance of protocol theory for the
formal description of nondeterministic business interactions either in
practical or theoretical respect, if applicable with a relation to game theory.

Organisation
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Duration: 1 day

For participation at the workshop, registration at http://www.informatik2011.de
is required.

Important Dates
  08. May 2011: Prolonged Deadline Submission of workshop contributions 
  23. May 2011: Notification of acceptance
  01. July 2011: Submission of print-ready contributions 
  04.-07.October 2011: GI Conference in Berlin, Germany.


Contributions
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All contributions have to be electronically submitted as PDF documents until 
24. April 2011. They must be formatted according to the guidelines of the 
GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)" and may not exceed 12 pages in 
this format.
(http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-informatics-lni-2005/autorenrichtlinien.html)

The submissions will be refereed, and accepted contributions will be published
in GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics."

At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and to give a talk
about the contribution.

Program Committee
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- Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg
- Amit Chopra, University of Trento

- Bernd Finkbeiner, Universität des Saarlandes
- Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Universität Bremen
- Martin Leucker, Universität Lübeck
- Lars Mönch, Fernuniversität Hagen
- Ralf Peters, Universität Halle
- Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg
- Elke Pulvermueller, Universität Osnabrück
- Johannes Reich (Co-Chair), SAP, Walldorf
- Andreas Speck (Co-Chair), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University Raleigh	
- Herwig Unger, Fernuniversität Hagen

Miscellaneous
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Website: http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2011/index_en.html 

Predecessor of this workshop have been:
- "Games, Business Processes and Models of Interactions" of the 39. 
  GI-Jahrestagung 2009 in Lübeck
(http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/GI-WS-SGI2009/English.html)
- PMBI2010 of the 40. GI Jahrestagung 2010 in Leipzig
 
(href="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/bit/veranstaltungen/workshop-protocol-based-modelling-of-business-interactions/)

Contact
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Johannes Reich
SAP AG
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
69190 Walldorf

Tel.: 06227 743006
Fax: 06227 7834157
E-Mail: johannes.reich[at]sap.com

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