-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP - BPM@Cloud: 1st International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud Datum: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 20:45:20 +0200 Von: Kyriakos Kritikos kritikos@ics.forth.gr An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Call for Papers

1st International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud - BPM@Cloud 2017 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2017

OFFICIAL WORKSHOP URL: http://closer.scitevents.org/BPM@Cloud.aspx

DESCRIPTION: To reduce costs as well as allow a more flexible provisioning of their business processes (BPs) and services, organisations are continuously thinking to move to the cloud. However, most of them do not have the appropriate expertise towards performing this move. As such, there is a need of platforms which are able to realise respective methods, techniques and algorithms that provide the appropriate cloud-based support level to these organisations. This support level should enable organisations to check which parts of their business processes should be moved to the cloud as well as cater for bridging the gap between the business and IT level. Moreover, it should assist in the allocation, publishing, execution, monitoring, evaluation and adaptive provisioning of these business processes, thus catering for their appropriate management based on the four main lifecycle activities of BP design, allocation, execution and evaluation. By moving and offering business processes in the cloud, the notion of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is realized which is projected to become quite profitable for the organisations participating in its value chain which can play the role of Brokers, BPaaS management platform operators, or software developers. Thus, BPaaS not only caters for migrating existing BPs in the cloud but can also become a novel exploitation product in the cloud stack that will further boost the adoption of cloud computing.

The workshop invites research papers that deal with any subject that is relevant for the realization of the BPaaS vision according to either business, technical or both perspectives. Research and development work on facilitating any kind of management for BPs in the cloud is more than welcome as well as innovative work that attempts to deal with the well-known business-to-IT alignment problem. Research that advances the state-of-the-art in cloud computing in areas related to BP management (e.g., cloud orchestration) are considered quite relevant. Novel cloud platforms supporting the advertisement and management of business process or workflows are also relevant. Finally, papers focusing on conveying practical knowledge or important issues related to moving or managing BPs in the cloud are also welcome.

TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Cloud-based Business Process Migration: - Novel methods and techniques on cloud migration - Novel methods and techniques for moving business processes in the cloud

* Cloud-aware Business Process Modelling: - Business Process Modelling - Semantic Business Process Languages and Ontologies - Hybrid Business Process Modelling - Goal-Oriented Modelling of Business Processes - (Semantic) Cloud Service Description Languages - KPI Modelling Languages & Ontologies - Cross-Layer Metric Models (from business to infrastructure layer)

* BPaaS Design & Alignment: - Business process to workflow alignment - Semantic Composition of business services - BPaaS Discovery & Composition - BPaaS & Business Service Model Repositories - BPaaS Design Methodologies and Methods - BPaaS Design Environments & Tools

* BPaaS Allocation: - Cloud Service Matchmaking - Cloud Service Selection - Semantic Cloud Service Discovery and Selection - Cloud-based Workflow Concretisation - Cross-layer Cloud Service Selection & BPaaS Deployment Reasoning - Business to technical non-functional requirements mapping - BPaaS Deployment Description - BPaaS Allocation Environment & Tools

* BPaaS Execution: - Cross-Layer Cloud Service Monitoring - Cross-Cloud Service Monitoring - Cross-Layer BPaaS Adaptation - Adaptive BPaaS Execution - Cloud Service Orchestration - Cloud-based Workflow Management - Semantic Logging - BPaaS Execution Environments & Tools

* SLA-based BPaaS Management: - Semantic SLA Description - Hierarchical SLAs - SLA Mapping between hierarchy levels - SLA Management Frameworks

* BPaaS Evaluation: - KPI Analysis & Drill-Down - (Conceptual) Analytics - (Semantic) Process Mining - Business Intelligence Knowledge Extraction Algorithms & Tools - Best BPaaS Deployment Discovery - Adaptation & Deployment Rules Derivation - Data Extraction & Linking for BPaaS Evaluation - BPaaS Evaluation Environments & Tools

IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: February 20, 2017 - Authors Notification: March 1, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: March 13, 2017

PAPER SUBMISSION: - Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. - Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: http://closer.scitevents.org/Templates.aspx - Please also check the Guidelines at http://closer.scitevents.org/Guidelines.aspx. - Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS: - After thorough reviewing by the workshop program committee complemented by members of the main conference program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support. - All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

CONTACT DETAILS: * Workshop Chair: Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, kritikos@ics.forth.gr * CLOSER Workshops - BPM@Cloud 2017, closer.secretariat@insticc.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org