-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Announcement from BPMDS organizers Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:39:50 +0200 From: Ilia Bider ilia@ibissoft.se To: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

The international series of workshops on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS: http://processplatsen.ibissoft.se/node/51) has been around since 1998. From 2011 it becomes a (two days) working conference attached to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). While changing the status of BPMDS, we preserve 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 its own theme 4. Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue of an international journal

In line with the first principle, we continue to solicit submissions of both research papers and experience reports that concern business process modeling and development, and business process support (development of software dedicated to business processes).

In line with the second principle, we solicit the papers (both research papers and experience reports) that contain results worth of discussion. For research papers, it means that reported research should be in an advance stage and a paper includes results that might be of interest for others. The experience reports should continue to follow the already existing guidelines (http://processplatsen.ibissoft.se/node/72). We add a new category of papers called/ *visionary papers*/ to facilitate discussions on a chosen for this year theme.

In line with the third principle, each event will continue to have its special theme. However, */only visionary papers/* are required to be tightly connected to the theme. We no longer require for research papers and experience reports to be directly connected to the special theme (they still need to be explicitly relevant to business process modeling, development and support though). We only suggest to the authors of research papers and experience reports, wherever possible, to make connection to the special theme. The theme chosen for BPMDS'11 is

Making BPM theory work in practice: "There is nothing more practical then a good theory (Kurt Levin)"

We invite the visionaries (from research and industry) to exploit this topic in relation to BPMDS. 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.

In line with the fourth principle, we will continue the tradition of publishing special issues that includes extended versions of the papers presented at each event. In addition, we will continue the tradition of publishing all papers accepted for the conference in LNBIP (Springer) proceedings jointly with EMMSAD.

A separate CFP for the new BPMDS'11 conference will be coming soon. Stay tuned !

On behalf of BMPDS'11 organizers (Selmin Nurcan, Pnina Soffer, Rainer Schmidt, Ilia Bider)

Ilia Bider

=============================================== Dr. Ilia Bider - Director R&D ilia@ibissoft.se +46 70 942 78 38 IbisSoft ab, Swedenhttp://www.ibissoft.se/ ----------------------------------------------- Attend BPM 2010 conferencehttp://www.bpm2010.org/conference-program/speakers/