-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Special Session on Dynamic Workflow Management at IEEE SMC 2006, Taiwan Datum: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:56:39 -0500 Von: Wang, Jiacun jwang@monmouth.edu An: Tong.Sun@xerox.com, "Wang, Jiacun" jwang@monmouth.edu

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for paper of the Special Session on Dynamic Workflow Management

2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Oct. 8 - Oct. 11, 2006. Taipei, Taiwan http://ins.cn.nctu.edu.tw/smc2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s business organizations are characterized by global, dynamic, uncertain and error-prone environments. In order to compete in such contexts, enterprises need to effectively stay adaptable to environmental and internal changes, constantly reconsider and optimize business processes, and rapidly develop new services and products to support evolving business. The adaptability in all aspects of workflow management (such as modeling, validation, and execution) becomes of a paramount importance. The research on workflow management has been around for a couple of decades, and many approaches and tools have been developed and gained certain range of practical applications. However, how to dynamically assess the constantly changing conditions and adapt workflows accordingly still remain as huge challenges in both academic and industry worlds.

As workflow systems currently provide little support for such challenges, the goal of this special session is to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss how workflow systems can better deal with these issues. We expect to draw together help identify the breadth of current work, commonalities, gaps, potential collaborations and future research directions. Relevant topics include but not limit to: • Dynamic workflow modeling, verification and assessment • Infrastructures for dynamically modifiable process models • Inter-organizational dynamic workflows • Formal methods in dynamic workflows • Methodologies for workflow management • Tool development and integration • Workflow management case study • Dynamic workflow patterns

*JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended and revised versions of accepted papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (**http://www.ijics.org/**).*

IMPORTANT DATES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 20, 2006 Submission of paper information to the organizers March 1, 2006 Deadline for submission of papers May 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance July 1, 2006 Final camera-ready papers due

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interested contributors please e-mail your paper information (title, authors, abstract, and contact information) to BOTH of the following two organizers by January 25, 2006.

Prof. Jiacun Wang Department of Software Engineering Monmouth University, USA Email: jwang@monmouth.edu http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=jwang@monmouth.edu

Dr. Tong Sun Principal Scientist Xerox Corporation, USA Email: Tong.Sun@xerox.com http://us.f504.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Tong.Sun@xerox.com