BPD2010 - 6th International Workshop on Business Process Design

In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Business Process
Management (http://bpm2010.org)
13 September 2010 
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Final Call for Papers - Paper submission deadline: 24 May 2010

Workshop Background and Goals:
Conscious (re)design of business processes is a powerful means for the
pro-active improvement of process performance as well as for re-active
achievement of higher process conformance. Despite being the most value-adding
aspect of the process lifecycle, process design is still more art than science.
Many methodologies on the subject remain vague about how to actually derive
superior process design. The practice of business process design tends to rely
on the creativity and previous experience of business professionals to come up
with new, improved processes. Because of the variability in creativity levels,
experience and tacit knowledge, the outcomes of such efforts are inconsistent
and can thus undermine the potential benefits of Business Process Management
(BPM) initiatives in organizations. 

The aim of this workshop is to continue the ongoing and successful discussions
of the last five BPD workshops to further nurture a body of knowledge on the
disciplined, well-understood and appropriately evaluated design of business
processes. We have witnessed in the previous BPD workshops that besides
research on BPD methodologies, there is a trend and a focus on addressing
constraints in process design, user involvement, process reference models and
process design quality.  Papers that introduce innovative tools for process
design, as well as papers that address soft issues (human aspects) and
quantitative aspects (e.g. financial evaluation of proposed process
improvements), will be particularly welcome.

We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an interest in
advancing the state of the art in process design (in contrast to process
modeling or execution). We seek contributions by authors who wish to share
their innovative ideas and insightful observations on the subject. Two main
categories of submissions will be considered: regular papers and industry
papers. 

Topics:
The workshop exclusively focuses on aspects related to process design within
the process lifecycle. This specialization excludes the well-researched process
modeling and process execution aspects. Within this specialized scope, topics
of interest include but are not limited to:

- Process design objectives
- Process inefficiencies diagnosis
- Process design methods and methodologies
- Process improvement patterns
- Process design tools
- Process design measures and evaluation
- Process design in the cloud
- Process reference models
- Process innovation
- Constraints in process design (e.g. legislative requirements, compliance)
- Process design governance
- Process design for emerging challenges (e.g. greening of processes)
- Process design in collaborative environments
- Human aspects (involvement, participation, acceptance) in process design
- Linking process design to organizational strategy and goals
- Success factors in process design
- Case studies and experiments

Proceedings and Journal fast-track:
All accepted papers will be published in Springer-Verlag workshop proceedings
as a post-proceeding volume in their Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP) series. To increase the quality of published papers, BPD
will rely on CD pre-proceedings that will include camera-ready papers revised
by authors based on comments from the double-blind review process. Following
the paper presentation and discussion at the workshop, a revised camera ready
will be required for publication in the LNBIP series, which will be delivered
to authors after the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper must
register for the workshop and present the paper. The best papers from the
presented LNBIP proceeding submissions will be invited to the Australian
Journal of Information Systems special issue on Business Process Management.

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
the paper must not exceed 10 pages. All papers must be formatted in LNCS format
(see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). The title page
must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered
(preferably using the list of topics above) and must not list author details.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpd2010. All submissions must be
received no later than May 24th, 2010, and must be in PDF format.

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: 24 May 2010
Notification of acceptance: 21 June 2010
Camera ready: 6 July 2010 (for inclusion on CD pre-proceedings)
Workshop day: 13 September 2010
Camera ready for LNBIP proceedings: 27 September 2010
LNBIP proceedings delivery to authors: December 2010

Co-Chairs:
Marta Indulska (m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au)
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072,
Australia

Selma Limam Mansar (selmal@andrew.cmu.edu)
Information Systems Program
Carnegie Mellon University 
Qatar Campus, 
PO BOX 24866, Doha
Qatar

Michael Rosemann (m.rosemann@qut.edu.au)
Business Process Management Research Group
Queensland University of Technology
Level 5 / 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
Australia

Program Committee:
Hyerim Bae (Pusan National University, South Korea)
Jyoti Bhat (Infosys, India)
Jan vom Brocke (University Liechtenstein)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira, Spain)
Lilia Gzara (Universite Henri PoinCare, France)
Paul Harmon (BPTrends, USA)
Kees van Hee (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Stefan Jablonski (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Mathias Kirchmer (Accenture, USA)
Agnes Koschmider (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Peter Kueng (Credit Suisse, Switzerland)
Jan Mendling (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Michael zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Jan Recker (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Ulm, Germany)
Shazia Sadiq (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Roger Tregear (Leonardo Consulting, Australia)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

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