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Call for Papers<br>
In Conjunction with CAiSE’07<br>
<b>The 8<sup>th</sup> Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development,
and Support (BPMDS'07)<br>
</b><i>Adequate Design of Business Processes and Support Systems:
Reusability, Best Practices, Theory, … are They the Right
Answers?<br>
</i>11-12 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway<br>
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Papers submission deadline: 1 March 2007<br>
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The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'07 Web site <br>
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</b>CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
<b>The 8<sup>th</sup> Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development,
and Support (BPMDS'07)<br>
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</b>June 11-12, 2007, Trondheim, Norway<br>
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<b>Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007 <br>
</b><a href="http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07" eudora="autourl">http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07</a><br>
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<b>BACKGROUND AND AIMS: <br>
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</b>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.<br>
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The <font color="#0000FF">BPMDS series of workshops (</font>see
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<font size=4>1. </font>A workshop should serve as a meeting place for
researchers and practitioners in two fields: <br>
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business development and <br>
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2. </font>Each workshop has its own, relatively narrow focus to
facilitate meaningful discussions and brainstorming.<br>
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In the next workshop (see
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</font>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.<br>
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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?<br>
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The main issues that will be addressed in the workshop are: <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>A. What does adequate design mean? <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>B. How to determine whether a design is adequate or not? <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>C. What means can be employed to achieve adequate design? <br>
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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.<br>
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<b>TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :<br>
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</b>The topics include, but are not limited to:<br>
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- Is adequacy of design contextual? Is it dynamic? Is it time-dependent? <br>
- What happens to adequacy when a process is modified, e.g. merged, integrated, segmented?<br>
- Theoretical bases of "best practices" and their use for the design of business processes and their support systems; <br>
- "Best practices:" are they really best? <br>
- Importance of reuse (i.e., design for reuse and design by reuse) in the coordinated design of business processes and their support systems. <br>
- Relationships between adequate design and business/IS alignment<br>
- Methods and concepts to achieve or verify the compliance of processes with formal and/or legal rules and standards. <br>
- Theory-based methods for business process and supporting system design and their scalability.<br>
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However, any other topic related to adequate design of business processes and support systems is also of interest. <br>
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<b>SUBMISSIONS: <br>
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<font color="#0000FF">Papers submission deadline: March 1st, 2007<br>
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</font></b>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@univ-paris1.fr.<br>
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<b>FORM: <br>
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</b>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.<br>
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<b>EXPECTED RESULTS: <br>
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</b>Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize the results and outline the promising directions in the field.<br>
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. <br>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES: <br>
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</b>Submission deadline: 1 March 2007<br>
Notification of acceptance: 9 April 2007<br>
Camera-ready papers due: 24 April 2007<br>
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<b>ORGANIZERS: <br>
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</b>Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France<br>
Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland<br>
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany<br>
Pnina Soffer,<font color="#0000FF"> </font>University of Haifa, Israel<br>
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<b>INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD: <br>
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</b>Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden<br>
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK<br>
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden<br>
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<b>WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<br>
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</b>Wil van der Aalst - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands<br>
Ian Alexander Scenario Plus, UK<br>
Ilia Bider IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Signe Ellegaard Borch - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
Stewart Green - University of the West of England, UK<br>
Elke Hochmüller, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria<br>
Paul Johannesson - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Marite Kirikova - Riga Technical University, Latvia<br>
Nikolaus Kleiner, DaimlerChrysler Research, Berlin, Germany<br>
Agnes Koschmider, University of Karlsruhe<br>
Peri Loucopoulos - University of Manchester, UK<br>
Jan Mendling - Vienna University, Austria<br>
Murali Mohan Narasipuram, City University of Hong Kong<br>
Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France<br>
L.F. Pau - Erasmus University, Netherlands<br>
Jan Recker - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia<br>
Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland<br>
Manfred Reichert - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands<br>
Peter Rittgen - University College of Borås, Sweden<br>
Michael Rosemann - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia<br>
Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany<br>
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel<br>
Markus Strohmaier University of Toronto, Canada<br>
Lars Taxén - Linköping University, Sweden<br>
Jelena Zdravkovic - Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA<br>
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Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne<br>
Centre de Recherche en Informatique<br>
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