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Website:  http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2012/index_en.html	 *
Deadline for submissions:  15. April 2012: 

Co-located with the 42. Jahrestagung of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik
e.V. , 16-21.September 2012, Braunschweig, Germany 

Summary
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This full-day workshop focuses on practical and theoretical consequences
of the approach to describe business interactions within the framework of
protocol theory.

Content
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The relevance of software directly involved in business interactions has
enormously grown in modern commerce within the last years.

Therefore, it is an obvious requirement that business software which 
supports business interactions should mirror the orientation of 
entrepreneurial acting along the business interactions in the simplest 
possible way.

To become runtime relevant from an application perspective, the interpre-
tation of the descriptions of business interactions has to be unambiguously
related to computational systems.

We expect a promising impetus with respect to the automated implementation
of business interactions. Especially small and medium enterprises should
benefit as they are currently discouraged to explore this area by the still
high initial investments.

The starting point of this workshop is the assumption that economics with
its game theory based notion describes the same interactions as computer 
science does with its descriptions of nondeterministic interactions of 
business processes. Due to the tight formal relation between (economic) 
game and (computer science) protocol, it is obvious to use the protocol 
notion not just for informal illustrations, as many contemporary approaches 
do, but also to view protocol theory as a sound formal base for the descrip-
tion of business interactions in the sense of a theory for consistent finite 
interaction of (possibly finite) systems. 


Adressees
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This workshop brings together scientist of the field of business informatics
with a special interest in business interactions and scientist of the more
theoretical oriented field of protocol theory. We therefore invite scientific
contributions which demonstrate the relevance of protocol theory for the
formal description of nondeterministic business interactions either in
practical or theoretical respect, if applicable with a relation to game theory.

Organisation
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Duration: 1 day

For participation at the workshop, registration at http://www.informatik2012.de
is required.

Important Dates
    15. April 2012: Deadline for submissions
    30. May 2012: Notification of acceptance
    23. June 2012:  Submissions of final versions
    16.-21. September 2012: ^GMDS / GI conference in Braunschweig
    19. September 2012: PMBI2012 Workshop


Contributions
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All contributions have to be electronically submitted as PDF documents at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmbi2012 until 15. April 2012.

They must be formatted according to the guidelines of the GI-Edition 
"Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)" and may not exceed 15 pages in 
this format. (http://www.gi.de/service/publikationen/lni/)

The submissions will be refereed, and accepted contributions will be published
in GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics."

At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and to give a talk
about the contribution.

Program Committee
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- Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg
- Bernd Finkbeiner, Universität des Saarlandes
- Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Universität Bremen
- Martin Leucker, Universität Lübeck
- Lars Mönch, Fernuniversität Hagen
- Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg
- Elke Pulvermüller, Universität Osnabrück
- Johannes Reich (Co-Chair), SAP, Walldorf
- Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
- Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Mareike Schoop, Universität Hohenheim
- Andreas Speck (Co-Chair), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Herwig Unger, Fernuniversität Hagen
- Wolf Zimmermann, Universität Halle


Miscellaneous
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Website: http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2012/index_en.html 

Predecessor of this workshop have been:
- "Games, Business Processes and Models of Interactions" of the 39.
GI-Jahrestagung 2009 in Lübeck
   (http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/GI-WS-SGI2009/English.html)
- PMBI2010 of the 40. GI Jahrestagung 2010 in Leipzig
 
(http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/bit/veranstaltungen/workshop-protocol-based-modelling-of-business-interactions/)
- PMBI2011 of the 41. GI Jahrestagung 2010 in Berlin 
  (http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2011/index.html)

Contact
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Johannes Reich
SAP AG
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
69190 Walldorf

Tel.: 06227 743006
Fax: 06227 7834157
E-Mail: johannes.reich[at]sap.com
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