Due to
many requests, the submission deadline of BPMDS'2014 for
full papers has been extended to March 3d.
Abstract submission is required for February 26th.
BPMDS is a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE
(Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering).
The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business
processes and their IT support. One of the major aims is to
discuss and to learn about concepts and techniques to enhance the
ability to engineer software systems closer the business
requirements.
The conference proceedings will be published in a Springer
LNBIP volume (joint with EMMSAD), "Enterprise,
Business-Process and Information Systems Modelingâ€, as the five
last years (LNBIP 29, LNBIP 50, LNBIP 81, LNBIP 113, LNBIP 147).
As usually, after the BPMDS’14 conference, extended versions of
the selected papers will be considered for publishing in a special
issue of an international journal.
The references of the Springer LNBIP volumes and of the
previous special issues are provided in the call for papers
below.
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International Conference on Business Process Modeling,
Development, and Support (BPMDS'2014)
the 15th edition of the BPMDS series
                        held in
conjunction with CAiSE’14
16-17 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract Submission deadline: February
26th, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: March 3d, 2014
The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS Web site
               http://www.bpmds.org
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SPONSORS:
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- Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE).
BPMDS is officially linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE
conference series, since 2011. http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/
- International Federation for Information Processing Working
Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1) https://research.idi.ntnu.no/ifip-wg81/
. Sponsor since 2009.
ABOUT THE BPMDS CONFERENCE:
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The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business
processes and their IT support. This is one of the keystones of
information systems theory beyond short-lived fashions. The
continued interest in this topic on behalf of the IS community is
reflected by the success of the past BPMDS events, and their
promotion from a workshop to a working conference.
The BPMDS series has produced fourteen events from 1998 to 2013.
From 2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference attached
to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering).
The basic principles of the BPMDS series:
1. BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and
practitioners in the areas of business development, and business
applications (software) development
2. The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than
presentations.
3. Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers.
4. Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue
of an international journal.
BPMDS solicits papers related to Business Process Modeling,
Development and Support (BPMDS) in general, using quality as a
main selection criterion. As a working conference, we would like
to attract papers describing mature research, but we still give
place to industrial reports and visionary idea papers. To
encourage new and emerging challenges and research directions in
the area of business process modeling, development and support, we
have a unique focus theme every year.
Papers submitted as idea papers will be required to be of
relevance to the focus theme, thus providing a mass of new ideas
around a relatively narrow but emerging research area.
Full research papers and experience reports are not required to be
directly connected to this theme (they still need to be explicitly
relevant to BPMDS though).
The focus theme for BPMDS'14 idea papers is
The human
perspective in Business Processes
The human perspective is of essence since it is humans who drive
business processes rather than computers. This perspective plays a
major role in all phases of Business Process Modeling, Design and
Support. The human perspective in business process modeling
relates to the individual who creates a process model, to the
communication among people that is facilitated by the business
process model during and after the modeling process, and to the
social process of collaborative modeling. The human perspective in
business process design relates to the kind of interaction /
collaboration / coordination / cooperation that should to be
implemented in the business process or to specific human-related
aspects of the business process itself and their representations
in models. Human perspective in business process support relates
to all social aspects of the business process and its management
in an organization.
We invite the visionaries (from research and industry) to exploit
this theme and submit idea papers that deal with specific human
aspects of business processes.
We also welcome research papers that include ideas on how
theoretical results discussed can be used in practice, as well as
experience reports on using theories in practice.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Business Process Modeling
- Business process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Multi-perspectives on business process modeling
- Representations of humans in business process models (expertise,
skills, preferences, intentions, emotions…)
- Actor-driven (vs activity driven) representations of business
processes
- Coherence among multi-perspective representations
- Theoretical foundations for analyzing, modeling business
processes
- Verification and validation of business process models
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Dynamic configuration; modeling by reuse
- Granularity, development of reusable and context-aware
components; modeling for reuse
- Domain specific reference models
- Business process modeling enhanced by social software and social
networks
Business Process Support
- Business process change management and governance issues
- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business
processes
- Business process support architectures and platforms
- Business process support based on a service-oriented
architecture
- Business process support combined with social software and
social networks
- Work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs control support in business processes
- Enhancing creativity in business processes
- Mobile technologies and context aware business processes
- Business processes using cloud-services
Requirements on Business Processes
- Human-centric business processes
- Compliance, reliability, security, performance
- Flexibility, variability, adaptability
- Metrics, maturity and continuous improvement
- Human resource management in business processes
- User-oriented aspects
- Strategy, business processes, people and IT: alignment, fit and
coherence
- Knowledge-intensive business processes
- Context aware business processes
- Cross-organizational business processes
- Data-intensive business processes
- BPMDS in the cloud
SUBMISSIONS:
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Prospective conference participants are invited to submit a paper
that concerns business process modeling and development, and/or
business process support (development of software dedicated to
business processes). We solicit the papers (both research papers
and experience reports) that contain results worth of discussion.
For full research papers, it means that reported research should
be in an advance stage and a paper includes results and at least
partial evaluation.
(3) Idea papers related to the focus theme, devoted to completely
new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a
generic situation that arises because of, for instance, new
methods and tools or new types of emerging challenges; the
compliance to the focus theme is mandatory for idea papers, which
should describe precisely the situation and demonstrate the
shortcomings of current methods, tools, ways of reasoning,
meta-models, etc.
Papers should be submitted in Adobe PDF format. The results
described must be unpublished and must not be under review
elsewhere. The papers should be submitted through the conference
management system available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2014
.
PUBLICATIONS:
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The conference proceedings will be published in a Springer LNBIP
volume (joint with EMMSAD), "Enterprise, Business-Process and
Information Systems Modelingâ€, as the five previous years (LNBIP
29, LNBIP 50, LNBIP 81, LNBIP 113, LNBIP 147).
After the BPMDS’14 conference, extended versions of the accepted
papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an
international journal.
The previous special issues are: BPMDS'13 in SoSyM in
progress - BPMDS'12 in SoSyM in progress -Â
BPMDS’11 in IJISMD, vol. 4, issue 2, 2013 -Â
BPMDS’10 selected paper in REJ, vol. 17, issue 2, 2012Â
- BPMDS’09 in IJISMD, vol. 2, issue 2, 2011 -Â
BPMDS’08 in JSME vol. 24, issue 3, 2012 - BPMDS'07
in IJBPIM, vol. 4, issue 2, 2009Â - Â BPMDS'06 in IJBPIM,
vol. 3, issue 1, 2008Â -Â BPMDS'05 in SPIP, vol. 12,
issue 1, 2007Â -Â BPMDS'04 in SPIP vol. 10, issue 4,
2005 & REJ vol. 10, issue 3, 2005Â -Â BPMDS'02 in BPMJ,
vol. 11, issue 6, 2005.
IMPORTANT DATES:
--------------- Abstract Submission deadline: February
26th, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: March 3d, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 23d, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: April 7th, 2014