-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 1st CfP: ISeB special issue on "Applications of Empirical Research in Business Process Management" Datum: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:06:10 +1000 Von: Jan Recker j.recker@qut.edu.au An: WI@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

*Information Systems and e-Business Management Journal*

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Special Issue on* Applications of Empirical Research in Business Process Management*

*Overview *

Providing effective IS support for business processes has become crucial for enterprises to stay competitive in their market. In response to this need numerous process support paradigms (e.g., workflow management, business service management, case handling), process specification standards (e.g., WS-BPEL, BPML, BPMN), process tools (e.g., ARIS Toolset, Tibco Staffware, FLOWer) and supporting methods have emerged in recent years. Summarized under the term “Business Process Management” (BPM), these paradigms, standards, tools, and methods have become a success-critical instrument for improving process performance. Research in the area of BPM has traditionally focused on the development and extension of associated tools, methods, standards and technologies.

However, when evaluating the suitability of existing BPM technology for a particular project, it is important for practitioners and academics alike to have an informed opinion about their qualities and deficiencies. In particular, the demand for insights or evaluations of BPM technology based on empirical research has largely been neglected so far. This is surprising as the benefits of empirical research have been demonstrated in areas like software engineering, information systems, or, indeed, business for a long time. From the introduction of empirical research methods such as experimental or case study methods into BPM (as well as into the development of process-aware information systems), we expect more valid, quantitative or qualitative data on the various aspects and effects of BPM technology. This becomes important, not only for IS professionals, but also for researchers dealing with analytical, theoretical or technical challenges in the field of BPM.

This special issue picks up this demand and seeks to stimulate empirical research that, in turn, can contribute to a better understanding of the problems, challenges and existing solutions in the BPM field. In particular, the special issue shall provide an interdisciplinary forum for both researchers and practitioners to improve the understanding of BPM-specific requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques. Therefore, the special issue will deal with different facets of applying and using BPM methods and technologies; and it will give new insights into the challenges, applications, and perspectives emerging for BPM technology. With varied contents (empirical frameworks, case studies, surveys, experiment results, case study research, experience reports, practitioner reports, etc.) we will present a lively and inspiring issue for readers from academia and industry.

*About the Journal*

Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) is an international journal that focuses on the core tasks of Information Systems Management, the conceptual anal sis,

design, and deployment of information systems, as well as on all e-business related topics. The central aim of the journal is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in information systems management and e-business which advance the field fundamentally and significantly.

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*Topics *

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

· Empirical research on BPM methods, BPM technologies, BPM tools

· Empirical research on process-aware information systems

· BPM-related (software) experiments

· BPM-related action research

· BPM-related surveys

· BPM-related case studies

· BPM-related experience reports

· Critical success factor analyses of BPM methods, BPM technologies, BPM tools

· Evaluations and comparisons of BPM tools, platforms and standards

· Frameworks for quantitatively analyzing BPM methods, BPM technologies, BPM tools

· Frameworks for qualitatively evaluating BPM methods, BPM technologies, BPM tools

· Requirements on empirical and experimental BPM research

· Usability and ease-of-use of BPM technologies and BPM tools

· User acceptance of BPM projects

· BPM success, failure and contingency models

· Studies on the role of standards in practical BPM projects

· Comparative studies of BPM technology

· Empirical studies of cross-organizational BPM coordination and settings

· Costs, benefits, and risks of applying BPM methods, BPM technologies, and BPM tools

· Evaluation approaches for BPM methods, BPM technologies, and BPM tools

· Practice-driven challenges for future BPM research

*Proposed Schedule *

15 November, 2009: Papers due

31 January 2010: Reviews due

31 March, 2010: Revised submissions due

30 April, 2010: 2nd round reviews due

15 June, 2010: Final papers due

15 September, 2010: Materials delivered to ISF

/_Review process _/

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three reviewers of the special issue editorial board in a double-blind review process.

/_Special Issue Editors_/

Prof. Bela Mutschler, PhD Business Informatics Group University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten Königsberger Strasse 153, 89231 Neu-Ulm, Germany bela.mutschler@hs-weingarten.de mailto:bela.mutschler@hs-weingarten.de http://www.mutschler.info

Bela Mutschler received his diploma in computer science from the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2003. After working as a research assistant at the University of Ulm for sixth months (completing a book on mobile databases), he joined Daimler AG (Group Research), Germany, as a process engineer in 2004. During his time at Daimler, Bela was also an external Ph.D. student in the Information Systems Group at the University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands, where he completed his Ph.D. thesis in January 2008. In his dissertation, Bela investigated causal dependencies and resulting cost effects in projects dealing with the introduction of process-aware information systems. Since November 1st 2008, Bela is a full professor in the department Business Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany. Bela is an expert in the fields of business process management and the design and development of process-aware information systems. His particular research interests include the performance of empirical and experimental research in the field of BPM and process-aware information systems and the design and introduction of enterprise (process) portals.

Prof. Roel Wieringa, PhD Information Systems Group The University of Twente Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands R.J.Wieringa@ewi.utwente.nl mailto:R.J.Wieringa@ewi.utwente.nl http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~roelw http://www.cs.utwente.nl/%7Eroelw

Roel Wieringa is Chair of Information Systems at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research interests include value-based requirements engineering, business process modeling, conceptual modeling, and research methodologoy for requirements engineering. He is scientific director of the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), that provides advanced education to all Dutch Ph.D. students in information and knowledge systems. He has written two books, Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding (Wiley, 1996) and Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). He has been Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software for the area of requirements engineering. He serves on the board of editors of the Requirements Engineering Journal and of the Journal of Software and Systems Modeling.

Dr. Jan Recker Business Process Management Group Queensland University of Technology 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia j.recker@qut.edu.au mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~recker/ http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/%7Erecker/

Jan Recker is Senior Lecturer at the Information Systems Program at Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include BPM Standards, User-centred Systems Analysis and Design, Process Flexibility and Post-Adoptive Usage. Findings from his research have been published in journals such as the /Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems, /the/ Communications of the Association for Information Systems, /the/ Australasian Journal of Information Systems, /the/ Business Process Management Journal/, the /Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems/, and others. He serves on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Database Management, and the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design.

/_Special Issue Editorial Board_/

Markus Aleksy, Germany Ralph Bobrik, Switzerland* Islay Davies, Australia Maya Daneva, The Netherlands Peter Fettke, Germany Jaap Gordijn, The Netherlands Wolfram Höpken, Germany Marta Indulska, Australia Jan Mendling, Germany Michael zur Muehlen, USA Markus Nüttgens, Germany Manfred Reichert, Germany Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands Michael Rosemann, Australia Peter Green, Australia

Ralf Schimkat, Germany Reiner Siebert, Germany* Ramin Tavakoli, Sweden* Barbara Weber, Austria Norbert Weber, Germany*

* from industry

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