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Call for Papers

In Conjunction with CAiSE'08

The 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and  
Support (BPMDS'08)
Business Process Life-Cycle: Design, Deployment, Operation & Evaluation
16-17 June 2008, Montpellier, France

Papers submission deadline :  February 20, 2008

The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'08 Web site
	http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08

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BPMDS 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and  
Support (BPMDS'08)

June 16-17, 2008, Montpellier, France

Papers submission deadline: February 20, 2008
http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:

Business processes have a life-cycle that comprises three phases,  
design, deployment, operation and evaluation. The design phase starts  
with requirements definition and ends with the implementation of the  
business process. In the deployment phase, the business process is  
tested under performance, compliance considerations etc. It is also  
verified for fulfilling the customer's requirements. After successful  
testing, the business process is released to operation. In the  
operation and evaluation phase, the business process is measured and  
analyzed during operation to identify improvements.

Each of the phases has one or more purposes. Examples for the purposes  
of the phases are given on the left. The design phase has the purpose  
to align the business process with the requirements of the business  
and to assure its compliance with legal rules etc. The deployment  
phase has the purpose to verify that the process fits the customer's  
requirements to test its performance and to put it into production. In  
the operation & evaluation phase, evaluation serves the purpose to  
enhance and improve the process. Nevertheless the process has to be  
flexible while supporting the business goals.

The BPMDS workshop 2008 is the 9th in a series of workshops 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.

During the previous BPMDS workshops, we discussed various issues that  
could be related to different, but isolated phases in the life-cycle  
of a business process. In the BMPDS08 workshop  
(http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08), we will focus on the  
interaction between two or more phases of the life-cycle, as well as  
the holistic view of the whole life-cycle. Furthermore, the  
relationship between the phases and their associated purposes shall be  
investigated. Therefore, we will accept only contributions covering  
two or more phases of the lifecycle, or process life-cycle management  
in general.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :

The main issues for discussion are:
·  Goals and approaches for Business process life-cycles and their  
applicability
·  Approaches, methods and technologies for the coupling of life-cycle phases
·  Management of the business process lifecycle
·  Support for the business process lifecycle
·  Metrics and continuous improvement of processes in the life-cycle
·  Evaluation and improvement may be practiced (i) in a stable state  
of the organization, but also and probably often (ii) because the  
environment changes.
-	Case (i) is related to the quality (management) aspects and to the  
continuous improvement
-	Case (ii) is related to the change management and BP transformation
In both cases, we probably can/should have some topics (i)  about the  
link between the BP, its improvement, and the support systems (not  
only BPMS), and (ii) the decision issues involved in all stages,  
illustrated in the wheel above.

Examples of more concrete topics include, but are not limited to:
·  Life-cycles for special types of business processes
·  Process and information integration in business process life-cycles
·  Processes for the management of business process life-cycles
·  Software systems to support the business process life-cycle
·  Metrics for business process life-cycles
·  Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
·  Specific transitions in the BP life-cycle:
- Design to deployment  modeling, verification, alignment,  
organizational issues, etc.
- Operation to redesign  monitoring, mining, learning, etc.

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers submission deadline: February 20, 2008

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:

Accepted papers will be published in the CAiSE'08 workshops  
proceedings. 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: February 20th 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 21st 2008
Camera-ready papers due: April 8th 2008

ORGANIZERS:

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France.
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.
Gil Regev,  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

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 Hochmuller  Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Klagenfurt, Austria
Paul Johannesson  Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova  Riga Technical University, Latvia
Agnes Koschmider  University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Peri Loucopoulos  Loughborough University, UK
Jan Mendling  Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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 Ulm, Germany
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
Barbara Weber  University of Insbruk, Austria
Jelena Zdravkovic  Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

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