First International Workshop on “Process Model Collections” (http://www.processcollections.org)

 

In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (http://bpm2011.isima.fr) Aug 28th-Sep 2nd, 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Important dates:

 

Submission of Papers: May 29, 2011

Notification:         June 30, 2011

Final Version Due:    July 15, 2011

Workshop:             August 29, 2011

 

Workshop Background and Goals:

 

Nowadays, as organizations reach higher levels of Business Process Management maturity, they tend to collect large collections of business process models. It is quite common that such collections of industry-strength business process models include thousands of activities and related business objects such as data, applications, risks, etc. These models are increasingly published over an Intranet to a large number of stakeholders with varying skills and responsibilities. In that sense, it may not come as a surprise that many organizations struggle to manage such high volumes of complex process models. The problem is exacerbated by overlapping content across models, poor version management, process models that are used simultaneously for different purposes, the use of different modeling notations such as EPCs, BPMN, etc.

 

In the light of the above, the aim of this workshop is to attract novel research in the area of business process model collections. Conceptual, technical and application-oriented contributions are sought within the scope of this theme. Conceptual work relates to the design of approaches for the management of process model collections, e.g. frameworks and structures to govern the use of such collections. Technical work concerns solutions to operationalize the management, and facilitate the maintenance, of content in process model collections, e.g. via refactoring or abstraction techniques. It also concerns software aspects related to process model collections such as version management, efficient storage, querying and retrieval of process models, and security. Finally, interest is also devoted to application papers describing case studies with, or empirical evaluations of, industrial process model collections and reference process models (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).

 

Topics:

 

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

-              management of process model collections (e.g. frameworks, modeling conventions and guidelines, governance, standardization)

-              refactoring techniques and maintenance aspects (e.g. clone detection, structuring, abstraction)

-              features of process model repositories (e.g. version management, storage, querying and retrieval, indexing, security)

-              process similarity search

-              process merging and consolidation

-              variability management, process configuration and process families

-              case studies and empirical evaluations of industrial process model repositories and reference process model collections (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).

 

Format of the Workshop:

 

The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers and an additional key-note speaker. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will be published as pre-proceedings and, potentially in revised form, in the workshop proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and plan to present the paper.

 

Paper Submission:

 

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNBIP format. 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 (work in progress/regular paper). Papers should be submitted electronically via the PMC’11 submission system. Please upload a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. All submissions must be received by no later than May 29, 2011.

 

Invited Speaker:

Prof. Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia. Marlon will give a talk on “Business Process Model Consolidation”.

 

Co-Chairs:

 

Hajo Reijers (h.a.reijers@tue.nl)

Marcello La Rosa (m.larosa@qut.edu.au)

Remco Dijkman (r.m.dijkman@tue.nl)

 

Workshop Program Committee:

 

Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Luciano Garcia-Banuelos (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Jon Gulla (Norwegian University of Science  and Technology, Norway)
Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Jana Köhler (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Agnes Koschmider (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)
Jochen Küster (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Jintae Lee (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Jan Mendling (Humboldt University, Germany)
Jana Koehler (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland)
Markus Nüttgens (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany)
Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland, Australia)
Minseok Song (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Hagen Völzer (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Jianmin Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Mathias Weske (Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany)
Petia Wohed (Stockholm University, Sweden)
George Wyner (Boston University, USA)

 

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Dr Marcello La Rosa

Senior Lecturer | BPM Group | Queensland University of Technology

Room 507, 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia

NICTA Fellow | Queensland Research Lab

www.marcellolarosa.com | Tel: +61 7 3138 9482

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