-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP: 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Business, Process Management (SBPM 2009) at ESWC 2009 Datum: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:07:01 +0200 Von: Martin Hepp (UniBW) martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org Antwort an: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org Organisation: http://www.heppnetz.de An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

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===================================================================== Call for Papers: 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009), in conjunction with the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'09)

June 1, 2009, Crete, Greece http://sbpm2009.fzi.de/

++ ACM Digital Library Proceedings (DBLP-indexed) ++ ++ Submission deadline April 20, 2009 ++ ++ Selected papers will be invited for Springer book on SBPM ++ =====================================================================

Workshop Theme ==============

The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems are representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations.

For several years, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP- centric IT landscapes. The term "Semantic Business Process Management" has been suggested for the described branch of research in early 2005. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project "SUPER", with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM.

In the past years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities.

There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event.

In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.

Topics ====== In particular, we are inviting contributions addressing one or more of the following topics:

Design-time aspects of Semantic Business Process Management: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Semantic modeling of business processes * Language issues (BPM languages to SBPM languages) * Business rules and SBPM * Semantics of existing modeling approaches * Mapping between Semantic Web languages and business process modeling * Semantic policy modeling and management for BPM * Reasoning for verifying semantic business process models * Reuse and adaptation of semantic business process models * Semantics for Collaborative BPM

Run-time aspects of Semantic Business Process Management: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Dynamics and flexibility of SBPM implementations * Combination of business rules execution and workflow execution * Semantic web services for SBPM * Interoperability between conventional and semantics-enabled BPM solutions * Semantic analysis of BP execution * SBPM to support business activity monitoring and real-time business intelligence * Change management and evolution of business processes, including process mining * Personalized and context-aware process instantiation * Semantic Grid in SBPM

Practical and business aspects of Semantic Business Process Management: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Business scenarios and case studies for SBPM in eBusiness, eGovernment, eHealth, production control, collaborative processes in logistics, engineering and management, ubiquitous computing, etc. * The role of BPM in SBPM * Migration from conventional towards semantics-based modeling * Contributions of SBPM for Corporate Performance Management * Critical success factors for the practical application of SBPM * Business benefits, evaluation aspects, and ROI of SBPM approaches * Standardization efforts relevant to or required for SBPM * SOA and SBPM * Reference models relevant to or required for SBPM * Combination of SBPM with quality management and IT service management * BPM and Web 2.0

Submissions =========== We invite the submission of * full papers (5-8 pages ACM SIG style), * discussion papers and experimental contributions (2-4 pages ACM SIG style), * demo descriptions (1-3 pages ACM SIG style), and * poster abstracts (1-2 pages ACM SIG style).

Full papers and selected short papers will be included in the official proceedings, which will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings format

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

and submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair Conference Management System at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpm2009

Important: Clearly indicate the type of the contribution, e.g. as sub-title.

Selected papers will be invited for fast-track review for an edited book on Semantic Business Process Management to be published by Springer in Fall 2009.

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.

Important Dates ===============

Deadline for submissions: April 20th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 4th, 2009 Camera-ready versions: May 18th, 2009 Workshop Day: June 1, 2009

Organizing Committee ====================

Martin Hepp E-Business and Web Science Research Group Chair of General Management and E-Business, Bundeswehr University Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany E-Mail: mhepp@computer.org URI: http://www.heppnetz.de and http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/

Knut Hinkelmann FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland School of Business Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland E-Mail: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch URI: http://knut.hinkelmann.ch

Nenad Stojanovic FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany E-Mail: nstojano@fzi.de URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483

Program Committee ================= (Invitations partly pending, to be confirmed) Andreas Abecker Witold Abramowicz Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros Eva Blomqvist Christian Brelage Christoph Bussler Lililana Cabral Jorge Cardoso Stijn Christiaens Oscar Corcho Pieter de Leenheer Thierry Declerck Tommaso Di Noia Asuman Dogac John Domingue Agata Filipowska Douglas Foxvog Christian Huemer Michel Klein John Krogstie Florian Lautenbacher Juhnyoung Lee Yun Lin Jan Mendling Barry Norton Markus Nuettgens Yue Pan Carlos Pedrinaci Michael Rebstock Jan Recker Ismael Rivera Peter Yim

Contact ======= Martin Hepp E-Business and Web Science Research Group Chair of General Management and E-Business, Bundeswehr University Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany E-Mail: mhepp@computer.org URI: http://www.heppnetz.de and http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/

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