Call for Papers - Int. Conference on Business
Process Management (BPM) 2016
The annual BPM conference is the premium forum for
researchers, practitioners and developers in the field of
Business Process Management (BPM). The objective is to explore
and exchange knowledge in this field through scientific talks,
industry discussions, technical tutorials and panels. The
conference covers all aspects of BPM research and practice,
including theory, management, applications and technology, and
brings together the most renowned representatives of the
scientific BPM community worldwide.
While BPM as a scientific field and as an industry practice
has significantly matured and increased its span, it is not
yet an established organizational management discipline, along
other disciplines such as project management or risk
management. Fostering true innovation rather than only
incremental change, capitalizing on big data opportunities and
accounting for processes that are increasingly flexible and
generative rather than structured and stable, are some of the
challenges that BPM needs to overcome in order to establish
its firm position within organizations.
These challenges add to existing areas of interest and
relevance to BPM research and industry. They also attest to an
increasingly interdisciplinary nature of BPM, which transcends
its original scope at the intersection of information
technology, organizational management and industrial
engineering, to embrace other disciplines such as behavioral
science, big data, operations management, social computing,
cloud computing, theory of processes and many more.
BPM 2016 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the second
largest city in Brazil, best known for its carnival
atmosphere, its passion for soccer and music, and its pristine
nature with stunning beaches and tropical forests. Rio never
fails to impress its visitors with its modern outlook that
reflects its evolution throughout the years, but also with its
historic sites and overjoyed attitude of the locals. We
welcome you to participate in the most important conference on
BPM, and to contribute to shaping the BPM methods and
technologies of the future in the unique atmosphere of Rio.
BPM 2016 will feature a rich program including a dedicated
research track, an industry track, a demonstration track,
tutorials and panels, and a varied set of workshops and
co-located events.
Topics
BPM 2016 explicitly encourages papers that report on
interdisciplinary aspects of BPM and on research in emerging
BPM areas, as well as papers that advance knowledge in the
areas of business process analysis and improvement. The
thematic areas reflect these interests besides those in
traditional BPM topics such as process modeling and execution.
Submissions from industry or industrial research labs are
encouraged, provided they fulfil the scientific rigor expected
from any other paper submitted to the research track.
A separate industry track will host papers that
specifically report on problems and experiences related to the
deployment of BPM methods and tools in practice. These papers
will be reviewed by a separate committee including
representatives from industry, and assessed on the basis of
their practical relevance rather than their scientific merit.
More information on the industry track can be found at
http://bpm2016.uniriotec.br/?page_id=156
The thematic areas of the research track in which
contributions are sought include, but are not limited to,
those listed below. Submissions may fit more than one
category, however, corresponding authors will be asked to
nominate one primary category. Each major topic is championed
by senior PC members who will promote the topic and lead the
review processes taking into consideration the characteristics
of the particular thematic area.
BPM in a broader context
Topic champions: Avigdor Gal, Pericles Loucopoulos,
Matthias Weske
- Decision management and BPM
- Events handling and BPM
- BPM and enterprise architecture
- BPM and auditing
- Automated planning in BPM
- Scientific workflows and BPM
- Software process management
- X-aware BPM (e.g. risk-aware, security-aware, cost-aware,
green-aware)
- Operations research for business processes
- BPM in selected application domains (e.g. healthcare,
financial, government)
Emerging areas of BPM
Topic champions: Florian Daniel, Massimo Mecella, Farouk
Toumani
- Social BPM
- BPM and Cloud computing
- BPM and Crowdsourcing
- Human-centric processes and knowledge-intensive processes
- Processes in the Internet of Things and Wearable devices
- Mobile processes
- Collective Adaptive Processes
Management aspects of BPM
Topic champions: Heinrich Mayr, Andreas Oberweis, Michael
Rosemann
- BPM lifecycle management
- BPM strategic alignment and governance
- BPM people and culture
- BPM maturity: success factors and measures
- Customer process management
- Adoption and practice of BPM
- Process change management
- BPM and other organizational management disciplines (e.g.
project management, risk management, IT governance)
Process identification and modeling foundations
Topic champions: Joerg Desel, Matthias Weidlich, Pnina
Soffer
- Process architectures and value chains
- Reference process models
- Process modeling languages (imperative, declarative,
non-visual)
- Process model quality (verification, validation,
certification)
- Foundation of process design
- Formal methods in BPM
- Management of process model collections (e.g. querying,
refactoring, similarity search, versioning)
- Process variability and configuration
- Artefact-centric processes
Process analysis and improvement
Topic champions: Jan Mendling, Hajo Reijers, Barbara Weber
- Qualitative process analysis (e.g. process waste
analysis)
- Quantitative process analysis (e.g. process simulation)
- Incremental process improvement
- Transformational process change
- Process innovation
- Customer-centric process redesign
- BPM and other process improvement disciplines (e.g. Lean
management, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management)
Process execution, monitoring and intelligence
Topic champions: Josep Carmona, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma,
Shazia Sadiq, Jianwen Su, Boudewijn van Dongen
- Process execution architectures (e.g. process-oriented,
service-oriented)
- BPM systems (a.k.a. workflow management systems)
- Case management
- Adaptive and context-aware process execution
- Management of process execution aspects (e.g. resources,
data)
- Process dashboards, analytics and visualization of big
process data
- Process mining methods (automated discovery, conformance
checking, performance mining, deviance and variants mining,
operational support)
- Process mining and parallel and distributed processing
- Process compliance (run-time and post-mortem)
- Process data integration and data quality
Submission Instructions
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS
formatting guidelines (for instructions and style sheets see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submissions must be in English and not exceed 16 pages of
length. 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 must be clearly marked as such.
Concerning length and formatting, student papers must follow
the same guidelines as research papers.
Submissions must be original contributions that have not
been published previously, nor been submitted to other
conferences or journals while being submitted to BPM 2016.
Empirical papers should build, where possible, on novel
datasets previously unpublished. Research on existing datasets
must clearly explain the novelty of the applied analysis.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series (
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0).
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 a paper for a special issue
of Information Systems (Elsevier).
A new sub-track, called 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 research track, e.g. an
interesting new idea with a weak evaluation. Those submissions
to the main research track which fall into this category will
be invited to the BPM Forum and published in full (i.e. 16
pages) in a separate post-proceedings volume in the Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (
http://www.springer.com/series/7911),
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 BPM PC
advises on the presentation and positioning of their paper.
More information on this program can be found at
http://bpm2016.uniriotec.br/?page_id=336.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact the PC-Chairs
(
bpm2016@easychair.org)
by 5 February, 2016.
Key Dates
- Abstract submission: 7 March, 2016
- Full papers submission: 14 March, 2016
- Notifications: 13 May, 2016
- Camera ready papers: 12 June, 2016
Remark: deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth (‘AoE’ or
‘UTC-12′)
Program Committee chairs
Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia
Peter Loos, DFKI, Saarland University, Germany
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain