Call for Papers
10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2012)
Tallinn, Estonia, 3-6 September 2012
http://bpm2012.ut.ee/

BPM 2012 is the tenth conference in a series that provides the most prestigious forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management.

Over the past decade, the conference has built its reputation by showcasing leading-edge research of the highest quality together with talks, tutorials and discussions by the most renown thought leaders and innovators in the field. The BPM conference series embraces the diversity and richness of the BPM field and serves as a melting pot for experts from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Technology Management and Services Science.

BPM 2012 will continue to foster research on the broad-based themes covered in earlier editions of the conference. Moreover, BPM 2012 encourages submissions in emerging fields of research and seeks to strengthen the relation to related research areas or fields of application. This includes research on models and methods that unify process management with data and business rules management. The conference also encourages contributions that apply or combine established and new techniques, such as Model-Driven Architecture, Web engineering, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing, to the specific challenges of BPM.

In addition to a research track, BPM 2012 also features an industrial track. Industry practitioners are encouraged to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with a particular focus on their impact on business practice. These papers should present industrial solutions that go beyond prototypes or "potentially applicable" methods, and are based on industrial experiences or empirical data.

Awards will be given to the best papers in different categories. In addition, selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the journal of Information Systems published by Elsevier.

BPM 2012 will take place in Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn is a progressive and dynamic city with a milenary history. Tallinn offers all the infrastructure and facilities of a global technology hub, combined with highly attractive tourism opportunities. The picturesque Tallinn Old Town, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is a unique pearl of medieval architecture, considered as one of the most intact medieval city centres in the world.

Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Models and Paradigms

    * Business process modeling and analysis
    * Business process reference models
    * BPM lifecycle management
    * Formal models in business process management

Techniques and Tool Support for BPM

    * Workflow and business process management engines
    * Case handling systems
    * Process monitoring and mining
    * Transactional issues in process management

Emerging Technology and Paradigms

    * Inter-organizational business process management
    * Service-oriented architecture and process management
    * Processes and service composition
    * Process management in the cloud

Organizatonal Aspects

    * BPM governance
    * BPM success factors and measures
    * Process performance measurement
    * Process-based compliance management
    * Quality of Service in business processes
    * Security in business processes

BPM Outreach

    * Software processes
    * Complex event processing for BPM
    * Ontologies and semantic process modeling
    * Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
    * Process-enhanced groupware
    * Process data warehousing and analysis

Applications and Experience

    * BPM in selected industries
    * Experiences with and evaluations of BPM tools

Submission Instructions

Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file using the EasyChair submission site by the deadlines indicated below.

Papers must be in English. They must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see formatting instructions and stylesheets). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.

Industrial papers must be clearly marked as such so that they can be appropriately reviewed by the program committee. Concerning length and formatting, industrial papers must follow the same rules and guidelines as research papers.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a paper for a special issue of Information Systems (Elsevier).

Inquiries regarding this call for papers may be addressed to the program chairs at: bpm2012@easychair.org

Separate calls for workshops, tutorials, demos and doctoral consortium papers can be found in the conference web site (http://bpm2012.ut.ee).

Key Dates

    * Abstract submission deadline: 11 March 2012
    * Full paper submission deadline: 18 March 2012
    * Notification of acceptance: 18 May 2012
    * Camera-ready papers deadline: 17 June 2012
    * Conference: 4-6 September 2012

Program Chairs

    * Alistair Barros, Queensland University of Technology
    * Avigdor Gal, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology
    * Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark

Contact

http://bpm2012.ut.ee/
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