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BPM 2018 - 16th International Conference on Business Process
Management
Call for Papers
September 9-14, 2018, Sydney, Australia
http://bpm2018.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/
<http://bpm2018.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/>
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The annual BPM conference is the premium forum for researchers and
practitioners in business process management. BPM is a broad
discipline, covering topics that range from formal methods in
computer science to techniques in information systems engineering,
to management science methods. Therefore, not only different
research topics are addressed, but also different research methods
are employed that require different evaluation criteria in the
peer reviewing process.
To accommodate for this diversity, the BPM conference introduces a
new structure. This structure is based on three tracks that cover
not only different phenomena of interest and research methods but,
consequently, also different evaluation criteria. To implement
this structure, each track has a dedicated track chair and a
dedicated program committee. The track chairs, together with a
consolidation chair, are responsible for the scientific program.
Through this new structure we aim to broaden the BPM community and
position the BPM conference as a forum for all aspects of the
broad business process management discipline.
TRACK I: FOUNDATIONS
Track I invites papers that follow computer science research
methods. This includes papers that investigate the underlying
principles of BPM systems, computational theories, algorithms, and
methods for modeling and analyzing business processes. This track
also covers papers on novel languages, architectures, and other
concepts underlying process aware information systems, as well as
papers that use conceptual modeling techniques to investigate
problems in the design and analysis of BPM systems. Papers in
Track I are evaluated according to computer science standards,
including sound formalization, convincing argumentation, and,
where applicable, proof of concept implementation, which shows
that the concepts can be implemented as described. Since papers
typically do not have an immediate application in concrete
business environments, empirical evaluation does not play a major
role in Track I.
You should send your paper to Track I if:
- It provides foundational results about the underlying principles
and concepts of BPM systems.
- It advances the state of the art in BPM through the
investigation of formal methods and algorithms.
- It contributes to the definition of novel concepts, languages,
and architectures for BPM systems.
- It tackles conceptual modelling issues of BPM systems and their
environment.
- It investigates novel concepts of BPM systems through the
development of proof-of-concept implementations.
Track Chair: Marco Montali Senior PC: Florian Daniel, Dirk
Fahland, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Thomas Hildebrandt, Marcello La
Rosa, John Mylopoulos, Manfred Reichert, Jianwen Su, Hagen Völzer,
Matthias Weidlich.
TRACK II: ENGINEERING
Track II invites papers that follow information systems
engineering methods. The focus is on the investigation of
artifacts and systems in business environments, following the
design science approach. Papers in this track are expected to have
a strong empirical evaluation that critically tests criteria like
usefulness or added value of the proposed artifact. This track
covers business process intelligence, including process mining
techniques, and the use of process models for enactment,
model-driven engineering, as well as interaction with services and
deployment architectures like the Cloud. It also covers BPM
systems in particular domains, such as digital health, smart
mobility, or Internet of Things. Empirical evaluations are
important to show the merits of the artifact introduced. A
self-critical discussion of threats to validity is expected.
Formalization of problems and solutions should be used where they
add clarity or are beneficial in other ways.
You should send your paper to Track II if:
- It has a significant technical contribution.
- Its results are empirically evaluated.
- It reports on a system that you designed, with a maturity of at
least a prototype. i.e., it can be evaluated in an application
context.
- It follows the design science approach.
Track Chair: Ingo Weber
Senior PC: Wil van der Aalst, Boualem Benatallah, Boudewijn van
Dongen, Jan Mendling, Cesare Pautasso, Hajo Reijers, Stefanie
Rinderle-Ma, Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber, Jianmin Wang
TRACK III: MANAGEMENT
Track III invites papers that aim at advancing our understanding
of how BPM can deliver business value, for instance how it builds
organizational capabilities to improve, innovate or transform the
respective business. Papers that study the application and impact
of BPM methods and tools in use contexts based on empirical
observation are highly welcome.
Areas of interest include a wide range of capability areas that
are relevant for BPM, such as strategic alignment, governance,
methods, information technology, and human aspects including
people and culture. We seek contributions that advance our
understanding on how organizations can develop such capabilities
in order to achieve specific objectives in given organizational
contexts. Papers may use various strategies of inquiry, including
case study research, action research, focus group research, big
data analytics research, neuroscience research, econometric
research, literature review research, survey research or design
science research. Papers will be evaluated according to management
and information systems standards.
Authors of selected papers in this track will be invited to submit
revised and extended versions of their work for a special issue in
the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) on “Business
Process Management and Digital Innovation”.
You should send your paper to Track III if:
- It makes a contribution to an organizational challenge.
- It builds on and draws from real-world organizational endeavors
in BPM.
- It extends the BPM body of knowledge to better contribute to
strategy delivery.
- It advances our understanding and methodology of BPM to support
digital innovation.
- It contributes to solving grand societal challenges through BPM.
Track Chair: Jan vom Brocke Senior PC: Jörg Becker, Alan Brown,
Mikael Lind, Peter Loos, Amy van Looy, Olivera Marjanovic, Jan
Recker, Maximilian Röglinger, Michael Rosemann, Theresa Schmiedel,
Peter Trkman
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Each paper will be submitted to exactly one track. Please use the
track descriptions above to decide where to send your paper.
Authors may contact track chairs for clarification. Papers must be
formatted according to Springer's LNCS formatting guidelines.
Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 16 pages. The
title page must contain a short abstract clarifying the relation
of the paper with the 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. Student papers are
treated as regular papers in the review process. Importantly, the
contribution underlying a student paper must be carried out mainly
by the student(s), but others (advisors, collaborators, etc.) can
appear as authors as well. When submitting the paper, student
papers must be clearly marked as such in the EasyChair system. To
be eligible for the best student paper award, student papers have
to be presented at the conference by a student author.
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the BPM
2018 EasyChair submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2018
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2018>.
Submissions must be original contributions that have neither been
published previously nor submitted to other conferences or
journals while being submitted to BPM 2018. Authors are encouraged
to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research (RR), by
making available data and software tools for reproducing the
results reported in their papers.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register
for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit an extended version to special
issues in Elsevier’s Information Systems (Tracks I and II) and in
Palgrave’s European Journal of Information Systems (Track III).
The BPM Forum will host innovative research which has high
potential of stimulating discussion at the conference but does not
fully meet the quality criteria for the main conference. Those
papers will be invited to the BPM Forum and published in full
length in a separate post-proceedings volume in the Lecture Notes
in Business Information Processing series, as well as being
presented during the main conference. There will not be short
papers at the conference.
First-time submitters to BPM may request to be considered for a
pre-submission shepherding program in which a selected BPM PC
member advises on the presentation and positioning of a shepherded
paper. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact the PC
Chairs (
bpm2018@easychair.org
<mailto:bpm2018@easychair.org>) by 23 January, 2018.
PC CHAIRS
Marco Montali (Track Chair, Track I)
Ingo Weber (Track Chair, Track II)
Jan vom Brocke (Track Chair, Track III)
Mathias Weske (Consolidation Chair)
KEY DATES
Abstract submission: 5 March, 2018
Full papers submission: 12 March, 2018
Notifications: 14 May, 2018
Camera ready papers: 11 June, 2018
Remark: Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth (‘AoE’ or
‘UTC-12′)
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