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14 May 2008

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From: Sylvain Hallé halle@info.uqam.ca
Date: 14. Mai 2008 12:20:48 GMT+02:00
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Subject: CFP: DDBP @ EDOC 2008 [International Workshop on  
Declarative and Dynamic Business Processes]
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*** CALL FOR PAPERS
*** First International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business
*** Processes (DDBP 2008)

*** In conjuction with the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference
*** (EDOC 2008), September 2008, Muenchen, Germany

*** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp2008

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business
environments. The traditional approach to process management is only
partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of
new, dynamic business processes. This new approach attempts to address
specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation: design of
easily
adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations,
optimality of adaptations. Central to the field of dynamic business
processes is the notion of requirement, which make dynamic business
process particularly suited to a declarative approach to their
modelling
and design.
The declarative approach to dynamic business processes raises a number
of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain
experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate
language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking
compliance or dynamically adapting business processes according to a
set
of requirements. Dynamic and declarative business processes have
proved
their use in a wide number of domains, and are expected to impact
existing and future technology choices, business practices and
standardization efforts.
This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange
opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current
topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A
particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and
practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems,
case
studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical
significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of
concrete examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work
in
progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work
on
formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are
also sought-after.
TOPICS
Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

Dynamic business process modelling
Implementation issues for dynamic processes
Tools for dynamic processes
Use cases of dynamic processes
Business and technical requirements for dynamic processes
Declarative model specification
Mathematical foundations of declarative business processes
Formal models of declarative business processes
Monitoring of declarative business processes
Validation of declarative business processes
Tools for declarative business processes

SUBMISSION
The workshop duration is one day. It will comprise presentations of
accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. All submissions
will
be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long and must use the two-column
format of IEEE conference proceedings and include the author's name,
affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF
files
using EasyChair.
Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee
by
the 18th of July 2008. At least one author of each accepted paper must
participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2008
Workshops will be published after the workshop with their own ISBN in
the IEEE Digital Library, which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. At least
one of the authors for each accepted paper should register for the
main
conference in order to present their papers.
The selected best research papers will be considered for special
issues
in top notch journals. Further details will be announced soon.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:       June 13th, 2008
Paper Notification:     July 18th, 2008
Camera Ready Copy Due:  July 28th, 2008
Workshop:               September 15th OR 16th, 2008 (to be confirmed)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

Colin Atkinson, Universitat Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Thomas Bauer, DaimlerChrysler Group Research and Advanced

Engineering, Germany

Andrew Berry, Deontik, Australia
Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Watson, USA
Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
Sanjay Chaudhary, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and

Communication Technology, India

Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA
Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University, USA
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Leo Orbst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Maja Pesic, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle, Universitat Ulm, Germany
Florian Rosenberg, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jennifer Sampson, National ICT Australia
Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University and Simon Fraser University,

Canada

Tobias Graml, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sylvain Halle, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

*** Workshop website:
*** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp2008

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Best Regards,
Dr. Michael Alexander
WU Wien Dept. of Information Systems
malexand@wu-wien.ac.at / +43.1.31336.4467