-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP: Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:09:34 +0100 Von: Ulrich Reimer ulrich.reimer@fhsg.ch Antwort an: Ulrich Reimer ulrich.reimer@fhsg.ch An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
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Call for Papers
The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories (AER 2009) 6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy
In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009) http://www.iceis.org/
Co-chairs:
Aurona Gerber Knowledge Systems Group, Meraka Institute South Africa
Knut Hinkelmann University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Paula Kotzé Human Factors and Enterprise Engineering Group, Meraka Institute South Africa
Ulrich Reimer Institute for Information and Process Management University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen Switzerland
Alta Van der Merwe School of Computing, University of South Africa South Africa
Background and Goals An organisation's long-term success heavily depends on the proper management of its business processes. Business process management continuously monitors and improves processes e.g. in terms of cost, quality and duration time. To better support and improve business process management, process repositories are needed that make comprehensive information on processes available and offer elaborate query answering capabilities. Since business processes are intertwined with all the other aspects of an enterprise the process descriptions need to be integrated with the different views and perspectives of an enterprise architecture, including the business motivation, the IT and data perspectives, the organisational units and the business rules: The process repository thus becomes an enterprise repository.
Currently, the information in a process repository -- if one exists at all -- is mostly of an informal nature and mainly provides text descriptions and graphics depicting process models. As a consequence, the query answering capabilities of such a repository are quite limited and it can therefore be very cumbersome to find the needed information. Moreover, as only basic information on business processes is modelled, more advanced and business-crucial questions cannot be answered, for example questions about process variability, about reference processes and how actual processes refer to them, or about the design rationales for process implementations.
A prominent means to develop more advanced process, resp. enterprise repositories are more expressive representation languages making process information formally explicit and machine understandable. Semantic Web technology aiming at content- oriented ways of querying the Web is an approach that could be applied to enterprise repositories as well. Enriching process descriptions with metadata that is rooted in an underlying ontology would be a first step. Querying can be even further improved by extending the ontology with background knowledge and using reasoning mechanisms to deduce answers to a query which could otherwise not be found.
The workshop has the aim to exchange and discuss approaches to advanced process repositories and their extensions into more comprehensive enterprise repositories to give enterprises new and more advanced possibilities of making use of their process knowledge.
Topics of Interest We are inviting papers that fall within the scope of the workshop as described above. We are especially interested in papers that address one or more of the following topics:
* Architectures and design principles for process repositories. * Advanced representation languages for covering all kinds of process-related information stored in a process repository, such as
- models for knowledge intensive processes, - reference models and their instantiations into specific processes, - design rationales for implementing processes, - modelling business rules and their relation to business processes, - dependencies between and constraints on processes, - information needed and produced within processes, - background knowledge needed for carrying out knowledge-intensive tasks, - descriptions of desired and actual process performance (e.g. cost, quality, duration time), - integrated models linking business processes with other perspectives (e.g. data, application systems, services, organisation structure, strategy, business motivation).
* Process ontologies for process repositories, allowing analysis, comparison and retrieval of process related information. * Automatic analysis of business process descriptions and their transfer into a structure conforming to a given process ontology. * Query languages for process repositories, including query evaluation and reasoning. * Approaches to representing and querying the mapping between a business view of a process and its actual implementation on top of IT systems. * Business cases and application scenarios for advanced process repositories.
Important Dates Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2009 Authors Notification: March 6, 2009 Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 17, 2009
Workshop Program Committee Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany Reinhardt Botha, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Jason Cohen, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Rainer Endl, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Machdel Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa Rainer Telesko, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Barbara Thönssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Holger Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the topics listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Publications All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.
Registration Information At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2009 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.
Secretariat Contacts ICEIS Workshops - AER 2009 e-mail: workshops@iceis.org