[Tccc] Call For Paper:1st International Workshop on Context for Business Process Management (CBPM’13)

Xiao Liu xliuatswin.edu.au
Wed Jul 3 10:48:50 EDT 2013



 1st International Workshop on
Context for Business Process Management
held with CONTEXT-2013<http://www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/?context2013> 
Conference
Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France, October 28-29, 2013
 http://grid.lzu.edu.cn/psrl/cbpm  



Goals
The goal of the workshop is to promote the role of context in business process 
management (BPM) by discussing (1) what the context community can bring to BPM 
community, including business and scientific workflow management; and (2) What 
are the challenges of BPM and workflow system that BPM community think context 
(context-based, context-aware, etc.) may solve. We are looking for extension of 
business processes and workflows like context-based BPM, context-based 
workflow, and if possible, contextualized workflow.

Technical issues addressed
BPM has been referred to as a "holistic management" approach to aligning an 
organization's business processes with the needs of users. It promotes business 
effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and 
integration with technology. However, the challenge for a large use of business 
process is the failure in addressing both the dynamic execution environment 
(i.e. grid and cloud) and the elastic requirement of users (i.e., logic of 
use). Two lines of research emerge to address this problem. Upstream, 
researchers try to make explicit the contextualization process in designing 
flexible and elastic business process for process optimization and reuse. 
Downstream, new technology such as cloud computing could bring a promising 
orchestration of business process but suppose a revision of BPM architecture.
The technical issues to be addressed are: Where context may intervene for 
operationalizing business process? What must be the impact of context in the 
design of business process? What would be a context-aware BPM? How must 
intervene context on BPM in the cloud? What kinds of context constraints and 
middleware should be integrated with the business process? Recognizing the 
interdisciplinary nature of BPM, the workshop also encourages submissions that 
embrace other disciplines such as Workflow Management, Information Systems and 
IT Management, Data and Knowledge Management, Web/Software Engineering, 
Service-Oriented Computing, Social Computing, Big Data, etc. The key criteria 
for acceptance are excellence and answering challenges specific to the field of 
context for BPM and even in the cloud computing paradigm.
The workshop solicits original papers on a broad range of topics, including but 
not limited to:

           Context and BPM/workflow: concepts and theory, e.g.

  Context-centric flexibility, adaptability and evolution in BPM

  Context-based BPM as a Service or Workflow as a Service

  Knowledge and reasoning representation for business process

  Security, privacy and trust in Context-based BPM

  Other socio-technical aspects of BPM/workflow

           Context-aware business process/workflow, e.g.

  Context for Mobile and Ubiquitous applications

  Context-aware BPM for Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting

  Context-aware recommendation process

  Context for dynamic selection of web services

           Context-based cloud workflows and applications, e.g.

  Context-based scientific workflows in the cloud

  Decision support systems for cloud-based BPM

  People-/knowledge-intensive process

  Crowdsourcing and process based on social networks

           Context as constraints for workflow design, execution and 
scheduling, e.g.

  Automatic workflow verification and generation with context constraints

  Context-based load balancing of workflow engines

  Context and Quality-of-Service constraints for workflow design

  Context-based process mining

Submissions
Workshop submission will be electronic, in pdf format only. Submitted papers 
must not exceed 12 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style (see below). 
Submissions should include authors names and affiliation and full references. 
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and 
the main conference, and present the contribution at the workshop in order to 
be published in the workshop proceedings. Detailed formatting and submissions 
instructions, as well as LaTeX and Word templates, can be accessed through 
Springer's information for LNCS 
authors<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0>.
Paper submission will be handled using EasyChair: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbpm

Workshop proceedings
The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the CONTEXT 2013 workshop 
proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended to a special issue in the 
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (EI indexed).

Workshop format
The general organization of the workshop is the following. First a tutorial 
will introduce BPM and cloud-computing domains and their challenges. Second, 
participants will present their position statement. Three, a general discussion 
will focus on proposals of the context community for the BPM community under 
the cloud computing paradigm.

Review process
Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A review 
form will direct reviewers to evaluate submissions for appropriateness, 
technical strength, originality, presentation, and overall evaluation, as well 
as recording the reviewers confidence in the topic. Each category will be 
rated on a scale from 1 to 5. Furthermore, we will emphasise that reviewers 
must provide constructive notes and remarks to help contributors to improve 
their current and future submissions. The committee will be asked to give 
extensive comments. The number of accepted papers will depend on the number of 
suitable submissions. To assure sufficient discussion time, at most 12 
contributions will be accepted for oral presentation, with additional poster 
acceptances possible.
Important Dates

      July 20, 2013 - Submission to workshops due

      September 10, 2013 - Notification of workshop paper acceptance

      October 1, 2013 - Camera-ready submission

      October 28 or 29, 2013 - Workshop sessions

Organization
General Chairs
      Patrick Brzillon, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
      Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
Xiao Liu, East China Normal University, China, 
x... at sei.ecnu.edu.cn<file:///D:/Research/workshop/x...@sei.ecnu.edu.cn>
Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China, 
fanxiaoli... at lzu.edu.cn<mailto:fanxiaoli... at lzu.edu.cn>
Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 
ft... at swjtu.edu.cn<file:///C:/Dropbox/Research%202013/Conference/CBPM'13%20Workshop/Special%20issue/ft... at swjtu.edu.cn>


Steering Committee
      Patrick Brzillon, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
      Lian Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
      Jean-Charles Pomerol,University Pierre and Marie Curie,France
      Ruisheng Zhang, Lanzhou University, China
      Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
      Frederic Magoules, Ecole Centrale Paris, France

Program Committee
      Flavia Santoro, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
      Matthias Wieland, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
      Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
      Haiwu He, ENS Lyon/INRIA, France
      Dong Yuan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
      Yi Yang, Lanzhou University, China
      Marc Frincu, University of Strasbourg, France
      Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
      Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
      Ming Mao, University of Virginia, USA
      Rongjing Hu, Lanzhou University, China
      Gaofeng Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia


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