TAProViz’13 2nd International
Workshop on Theory and Applications of Process
Visualization, Beijing, China - 26 August 2013
In conjunction with the 11th
International Conference on Business Process Management
(BPM2013)
Workshop Goals
The representation of business
process models has been a continuing research topic for
many years now. However, many process model
representations have not developed beyond minimally
interactive 2D icon-based representations of directed
graphs and networks, with little or no annotation for
information overlays. In addition, very few of these
representations have undergone a thorough analysis or
design process with reference to psychological theories
on data and process visualization. This dearth of
visualization research, we believe, has led to problems
with BPM uptake in some organizations, as the
representations can be difficult for stakeholders to
understand, and thus remains an open research question
for the BPM community. In addition, business analysts
and process modeling experts themselves need visual
representations that are able to assist with key BPM
life cycle tasks in the process of generating optimal
solutions.
With the rise of desktop
computers and commodity mobile devices capable of
supporting rich interactive 3D environments, we believe
that much of the research performed in computer human
interaction, virtual reality, games and interactive
entertainment have much potential in areas of BPM; to
engage, provide insight, and to promote collaboration
amongst analysts and stakeholders alike. We believe
this is a timely topic, with research emerging in a
number of places around the globe, relevant to this
workshop.
This is the second TAProViz
workshop being run at BPM. The intention this year is
to consolidate on the results of last year's successful
workshop by further developing this important topic,
identifying the key research topics of interest to the
BPM visualization community.
Workshop Theme
Visualizations can make the
structure and dependencies between elements in processes
accessible in order to support users who need to analyze
process models and their instances. However, effectively
visualizing processes in a user-friendly way is often a
big challenge, especially for complex process models
which can consist of hundreds of process components
(e.g., process activities, data flows, and resources)
and thousands of running process instances in different
execution states.
Many challenges remain to be
addressed within the broad area of process visualization
such as: scalability, human-computer interaction,
cognitive aspects, applicability of different
approaches, collaboration, process evolution, run-time
requirements of process instances and applications, etc.
Topics of interest include
(but are not limited to):
• Visual Metaphors in
Processes
• Visual Design and
Aesthetics for Processes
• Visualization of
Dynamic Data in Processes
• Change Visualization
for Processes
• Interface and
Interaction Techniques for Process Visualization
• Visualization
Techniques for Collaboration and Distributed Processes
• Visualization of
Large-scale Processes
• Cognition and
Perception in Process Visualization
• Evaluation and User
Studies of Process Visualization
• Visual Modeling
Languages
• Analysis Techniques
and Visualization for Processes
• Process Visualization
of Large Screens
• Mobile Process
Visualization
• Visualization Tools
and Systems for Processes
• Visualization
Techniques for Processes
• Process Visualization
and Sonification
• Virtual World Process
Visualization
• Immersive Process
Modeling Approaches
• 3D Process
Visualization Approaches
Format of the Workshop
The 1Ž2 day workshop will
comprise accepted papers and tool presentations. Papers
should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by
at least three members of the program committee. All
accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will be a
single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all
BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the
conference, there will be informal proceedings during
the workshop. At least one author for each accepted
paper should register for the workshop and present the
paper.
In addition, there will be a
joint meeting of the participants, to continue the
development of a process visualization research
community that will continue to work together after the
workshop.
Intended Audience
Researchers, practitioners and
software vendors in the BPM space performing research
into using graphics and interaction techniques to
provide process visualizations across many topics will
find this workshop to be of interest.
Important Dates
• Deadline for workshop
paper submissions: 25 May 2013
• Notification of
Acceptance: 25 June 2013
• Camera-ready version:
23 July 2013
• TAProViz Workshop: 26
August 2013
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are
invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the
areas listed above.
Three types of submissions are
possible:
• (1) full papers (12
pages long) reporting mature research results
• (2) position papers
reporting research that may be in preliminary stage that
has not yet been evaluated
• (3) tool reports
Position papers and tool
reports should be no longer than 6 pages.
Only papers in English will be
accepted and must present original research
contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted in the << LNBIP>>
format. The title page must contain a short abstract, a
classification of the topics covered, preferably using
the list of topics above, and an indication of the
submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool
report).
All accepted workshop papers
will be published by Springer as a post-workshop
proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Hard copies of
these proceedings will be shipped to all registered
participants approximately four months after the
workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be
distributed during the workshop.
Submitted papers will be
evaluated, in a double blind manner, on the basis of
significance, originality, technical quality, and
exposition. Papers should clearly establish their
research contribution and the relation to the theory and
application of process visualization.
Papers (in PDF format) should
be submitted electronically via the EasyChair site.
Registration
Accepted papers imply that at
least one of the authors will register for
<<(BPM2013)>> and present the paper at the
TAProViz workshop.
Workshop Co-Chairs
• Ross Brown
Information Systems
Discipline, Science and Engineering Faculty
Queensland University of
Technology, Australia
• Simone Kriglstein
SBA Research, Vienna, Austria
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Research Group Workflow
Systems and Technology
University of Vienna, Austria
Program Committee
• Ralph Bobrik
(Switzerland)
• Michael Burch
(Germany)
• Massimiliano De Leoni
(Netherlands)
• Remco Dijkman
(Netherlands)
• Phillip Effinger
(Germany)
• Kathrin Figl
(Austria)
• Hans-Georg Fill
(Austria)
• Sonja Kabicher-Fuchs
(Austria)
• Jens Kolb (Germany)
• Wendy Lucas (USA)
• Silvia Miksch
(Austria)
• Margit Pohl
(Austria)
• Rune Rasmussen
(Australia)
• Manfred Reichert
(Germany)
• Irene Vanderfeesten
(Netherlands)
• Eric Verbeek
(Netherlands)
• Günter Wallner
(Austria)
regards,