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Call for Papers
In Conjunction with CAiSE’07
The 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support 
(BPMDS'07)
Adequate Design of Business Processes and Support Systems: Reusability, 
Best Practices, Theory, 
  are They the Right Answers?
11-12 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway

Papers submission deadline: 1 March 2007

The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'07 Web site
         http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07

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BPMDS 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support 
(BPMDS'07)

June 11-12, 2007, Trondheim, Norway

Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007
http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:

Adequate process design means that a process will have the ability to 
fulfil its stakeholders' expectations. The objectives of the workshop are 
to clarify these expectations, to develop metrics to decide whether a 
design is adequate or not and to investigate means to achieve an adequate 
design. Different means such as "best practices", reuse and theoretical 
approaches will be investigated and compared.

The BPMDS series of workshops (see 
http://www.ibissoft.se/index.html?frameset=research_frame.htm&itemframe=/bpm 
ds.html) was designed according to the following principles:

1. A workshop should serve as a meeting place for researchers and 
practitioners in two fields:
         a. business development and
         b. business applications (software) development

2. Each workshop has its own, relatively narrow focus to facilitate 
meaningful discussions and brainstorming.

In the next workshop (see http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07) we 
will discuss the issue of what it means to design an adequate process and 
its support systems. Adequacy can be measured with respect to the goals of 
the stakeholders of the business process.

Typical goals that are named in connection with business process (support) 
design are productivity, quality, efficiency, flexibility and conformance 
with formal and legal rules such as ISO 20000 or SOX. Are they the only 
ones? Typical means that are named in this context are “best practices”, 
reuse and theoretical approaches. Are they the right means for achieving 
these goals?

The main issues that will be addressed in the workshop are:
         A. What does adequate design mean?
         B. How to determine whether a design is adequate or not?
         C. What means can be employed to achieve adequate design?

In particular, we want to examine typical concepts used in relation with 
process design, such as, reuse, theoretical approaches and even buzz-words 
for instance, “best practices”. Reusability is often considered as a highly 
desired property of the designed processes and their support systems. "Best 
practices" are often used by practitioners to promote design techniques 
that are supposed to have been proven in practice, but it is not clear why 
they are "the best" as their name may suggest, and whether they can be 
transferred from one organization to another. The need to have the “right” 
theoretical approach represents the other extreme promoted by researchers 
who advance theoretical frameworks for design. These often suffer from 
being impractical and unscalable.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :

The topics include, but are not limited to:

- Is adequacy of design contextual? Is it dynamic? Is it time-dependent?
- What happens to adequacy when a process is modified, e.g. merged, 
integrated, segmented?
- Theoretical bases of "best practices" and their use for the design of 
business processes and their support systems;
- "Best practices:" are they really best?
- Importance of reuse (i.e., design for reuse and design by reuse) in the 
coordinated design of business processes and their support systems.
- Relationships between adequate design and business/IS alignment
- Methods and concepts to achieve or verify the compliance of processes 
with formal and/or legal rules and standards.
- Theory-based methods for business process and supporting system design 
and their scalability.

However, any other topic related to adequate design of business processes 
and support systems is also of interest.

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper 
related to one or more of the main topics. The paper selection will be 
based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its 
quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. Papers should be 
emailed to Selmin.Nurcan at univ-paris1.fr.

FORM:

The aim of the workshop is discussions, rather than presentations. To this 
end, position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. A position paper does 
not necessarily need to include answers to the problems described above. 
Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or 
unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Short 
papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted, and will be assigned a 10 
minutes presentation. All papers will be published on our website before 
the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are 
important for other participants.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize 
the results and outline the promising directions in the field.
After the workshop, the workshop material together with a selection of the 
best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an 
international journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 1 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 9 April 2007
Camera-ready papers due: 24 April 2007

ORGANIZERS:

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Gil Regev,  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Wil van der Aalst - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ian Alexander  Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider  IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden
Signe Ellegaard Borch - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Stewart Green - University of the West of England, UK
Elke Hochmüller, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria
Paul Johannesson - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova - Riga Technical University, Latvia
Nikolaus Kleiner, DaimlerChrysler Research, Berlin, Germany
Agnes Koschmider, University of Karlsruhe
Peri Loucopoulos - University of Manchester, UK
Jan Mendling - Vienna University, Austria
Murali Mohan Narasipuram, City University of Hong Kong
Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
L.F. Pau - Erasmus University, Netherlands
Jan Recker - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Gil Regev  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Peter Rittgen - University College of Borås, Sweden
Michael Rosemann - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier  University of Toronto, Canada
Lars Taxén - Linköping University, Sweden
Jelena Zdravkovic - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

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