-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: TPEM'07 - Special Track on Task and Process Exploration and Modeling Datum: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:15:22 -0500 Von: Markus Strohmaier mstrohm@know-center.at An: bpoki@know-center.at

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· 02 April 2007: Submission of Full Papers (4-8 pages) · 21 May 2007: Notification of Acceptance · 25 June 2007: Final Versions (8 pages) · 5 September 2007: TPEM'07 Special Track

################################################################# # TPEM'07 # # Special Track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling # #################################################################

5 September 2007 Graz, Austria http://www.i-know.at/tpem Special Track Information Background

The I-KNOW 2007 Special Track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling is the fourth in a series. This event aims to show and discuss approaches, concepts, ideas, instruments and systems that address the support for knowledge workers as an individual and knowledge intensive business processes in organizations.

Knowledge-intensive work plays an important role in organizations of all types. In a knowledge-intensive business environment, knowledge workers typically need significant flexibility in structuring their activities in order to react to ever changing business needs. Since their work is highly goal oriented, it is rather difficult to model it in advance and provide support for knowledge workers. This essential freedom required by knowledge workers often conflicts with their organization’s need for standardization, control, and transparency.

Business Process Management has been understood as a top-down approach in the last years. Since the number of knowledge workers in organizations is steadily increasing, the trend seems to go into the direction of complementing the pre-modelled top-down process model by bottom-up modelling approaches. Business Process Monitoring and event/tasks/process mining utilize usage data from live process management systems, from workflow systems or from the users’ desktops. This usage data extends the process modelling scope with an additional view on the process execution environment. Objectives

In contrast to the well researched and applied top-down approaches to business process modelling and management the Task and Process Exploration and Modelling (TPEM) tries to find answers to the following guiding research questions:

o To what extend is knowledge work capturing possible? What are the Barriers and challenges?

o Can knowledge work be modelled or derived from usage data? Do knowledge work patterns exist and how can they be automatically discovered?

o What is the impact of usage data analysis on knowledge work support and business process modelling and management?

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For this special track we invite submissions that deal with issues including, but not limited to:

· Identification and modelling of knowledge work and knowledge intensive business processes · Similarity measures for knowledge intensive task and processes · Recognition of similar tasks of knowledge workers · Task to process alignment · Task and process models for knowledge intensive work · Clustering and classification of tasks / processes · Semantic representation of tasks / processes · Task and process patterns · Task and process extraction from natural language · Task and process exploration · Ad-hoc process detection · Event, task and process context · Visualization of knowledge work · Standard vs. ad-hoc tasks / processes · Flexible/Ad-hoc workflows · Event / task / process mining · Identification and modelling of a knowledge worker’s context · Business process oriented knowledge work support · Barriers & limits of knowledge work support · Domain-specific approaches and experiences to knowledge intensive business process support · related tools, applications and systems

################### # Important Dates # ###################

· 02 April 2007: Submission of Full Papers (4-8 pages) · 21 May 2007: Notification of Acceptance · 25 June 2007: Final Versions (8 pages) · 5 September 2007: TPEM'07 Special Track

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Submissions should be handed in as full papers and should not exceed 8 pages.

File Types: Word for Windows, Postscript (PS) Style Guides: http://www.i-know.at/style_guide.html Paper Submission System: http://www.i-know.at/submission

In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at tpem@know-center.at .

Notification of Acceptance and Publishing

Accepted papers will be published within the I-KNOW '07 conference proceedings most likely in cooperation with Springer Co. Pub. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for I-KNOW ’07 before the deadline for Final Versions (25 June 2007).

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The organization team of the special track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling consists of the following people:

· Andreas S. Rath, Know-Center Graz (Austria) · Nicolas Weber, Know-Center Graz (Austria) · Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (Austria) · Markus Strohmaier, Know-Center Graz (Austria) and University of Toronto (Canada)

##################### # Program Committee # ##################### * Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam, Germany * Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria * Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland * Uwe Riss, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany * A.J.M.M. Weijters, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands * To be completed.