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Call for papers
3rd International Workshop on
Robustness Injection into Business Processes (MRI-BP)
In conjunction with MCETECH
International Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
May 17th, 2017
Abstract submission: March 24th
Full paper submission: March 31st
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Within the area of business
processes, trends for BAM (Business Activity Monitoring),
BOM (Business Operations Management), BPI (Business Process
Intelligence), and CEP (Complex Event Processing) are
increasingly becoming an essential part of organizations’
arsenals for verifying that their operations are happening
within defined boundaries, responding to deviations, and
keeping up with a dynamic, open, and competitive business
environment in which business processes are no longer
monolithic.
This modern nature of business
processes brings about challenges in that transactions are
distributed, take different paths, involve the coordination
of multiple people, machines, and services, and require
data/business artifacts to construct a business context from
different tiers. While there may be a single—or a few—happy
path(s)/process(es), a robust e-business application needs
to accommodate various failure points arising from people’s
unavailability, service failures, business rule changes,
human mistakes, or simply changes of plan.
One may leverage business process
specification languages that offer a structured mechanism
for exception handling. An effort then has to be spent
during process modeling for these exceptional situations to
be enumerated and their management processes to be
specified. Naturally, these what-if scenarios usually
mobilize the bulk of the business analysis and development
effort. Further, business analysts and developers have
little guidance in designing and implementing those
processes. Even if analysts can put safeguards for these
scenarios in place, some exceptions cannot be predicted
until they happen, and their consequences may be severe.
Mechanisms to roll back or compensate for the exceptions’
effects need to be put in place.
The objective of this workshop is
to bring together researchers and practitioners interested
in business process robustness and in methodologies for
injecting robustness artifacts and mechanisms (exception
handling activities, service level agreements, compensation
processes, etc.) in process models through assistive or
automated techniques. The workshop seeks contributions that
have used reasoning on process semantics, discovery of
process attributes (performance, organizational), proactive
BAM models, and process repair and extension, for the
purpose of enhancing the resilience of a process model or of
the modeling process.
** Workshop Background **
The first two editions took place
in Vancouver (2013) and Montreal (2015) and were a great
success. Indeed, many interesting and high quality papers
were presented and we received twice the Best Workshop Paper
Award from EDOC (2013) and MCETECH (2015) conferences. We
were also glad to welcome field leaders as keynote speakers
as the author Thomas Erl, and Keith Swenson who is leading
the field of Case Management.
Building on this success,
MRI-BP’2017 seeks to consolidate the event by creating a
community of researchers and industrials alike to discuss
current approaches and research problems and expose
visionary ideas related to business process robustness.
** Important Dates **
The workshop will take place along
with the MCETECH’2017 international conference in Ottawa,
Canada (
www.mcetech.org). The
workshop assigned date is May 17th, 2017.
• Abstract Submission: March 24th,
2017
• Paper Submission: March 31st,
2017
• Paper Notification: April
14-18th, 2017
• Camera Ready Copy: May 1st, 2017
• Workshop: May 17th, 2017 @ 8:30am
** Main Topics **
The areas for contribution include,
but are not limited to, the following:
• Resilient processes / Process
flexibility
• Reasoning and semantics of
business processes
• Ontological frameworks for
contingency inference
• Assistive techniques for robust
process modeling
• Exception handling &
compensation mechanisms
• Process enhancement through
repair and extension
• Business transaction management
• Process mining
• Improving scope of BAM techniques
• Business process analytics
• Correlation of events within
process data
• Monitoring and exception handling
in data-centric business processes
• Process recovery mechanisms
** Submission Guidelines **
Three types of papers are
solicited:
• Short papers (up to 6 pages)
discussing controversial issues in the field or describing
interesting or thought-provoking ideas sensibly argued;
• PhD Papers (up to 4 pages)
describing a PhD thesis in progress;
• Full papers (up to 10 pages)
presenting contributions that solve open research issues in
the filed, as well as the theoretical and/or preliminary
empirical evaluations.
All submissions must be made in PDF
format and comply with the Springer LNBIP Format Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair (link
below). All submissions should be in English. Submitted
content must not infringe any copyright agreement if
submitted elsewhere.
All submissions must be made on
EasyChair through the following link:
Publication
Accepted papers will be published
as a CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume. For more information:
http://ceur-ws.org.
Note: Authors who are considering
submitting their work to another conference or a journal,
but still wish to review their work and discuss it at the
workshop, are welcome to submit and can choose to opt-out
from publishing their paper in MRI-BP proceedings (only the
title and list of authors will be mentioned).
** Committees **
-- Organizing committee --
• Anis Boubaker, University of
Quebec at Montreal, Canada
• Renata Carvalho, Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Blekinge
Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
• Hafedh Mili, University of Quebec
at Montreal, Canada
-- Program Committee (partial list)
--
• W.M.P. van der Aalst, Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Gilbert Babin, HEC Montreal,
Canada
• Malak Baslyman, University of
Ottawa, Canada
• Morad Benyoucef, Telfer School of
Management, Canada
• Anis Boubaker, University of
Quebec at Montreal, Canada
• Renata Carvalho, Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna
University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Yasmine Charif, PARC, USA
• Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, BTH,
Sweden
• Abdel Leshob, UQAM-ESG, Canada
• Hafedh Mili, University of Quebec
at Montreal, Canada
• Francis Palma, Screaming Power
Inc., Canada
• Pascal Poizat, Université Paris
Ouest, France
• Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Marcello la Rosa, Queensland
University of Technology, Australia
• Mattia Saltrini, University of
Trento, Italy
• Keith Swenson, Fujitsu North
America, USA
• Barbara Weber, University of
Innsbruck, Austria
• Frank Wolff, Cooperative State
University Mannheim, Germany