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Call for Papers<br>
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In Conjunction with CAiSE’08<br>
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<b>The 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and
Support (BPMDS'08)<br>
</b><i>Business Process Life-Cycle: Design, Deployment, Operation &
Evaluation <br>
</i>16-17 June 2008, Montpellier, France<br>
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Papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2008<br>
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<b>The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS'08 Web site
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</b>CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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<b>The 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and
Support (BPMDS'08)<br>
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</b>June 16-17, 2008, Montpellier, France<br>
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<b>Papers submission deadline: February, 15th, 2008 <br>
</b><a href="http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08" eudora="autourl">http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08</a><br>
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<b>BACKGROUND AND AIMS: <br>
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</b>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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The BPMDS workshop 2008 is the 9<sup>th</sup> in a series of workshops
designed according to the following principles:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">1.<x-tab> </x-tab></font>A
workshop should serve as a meeting place for researchers and
practitioners in two fields:
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<dd>a. business development and
<dd>b. business applications (software)
development<font face="Times New Roman, Times">
</dl>2.<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Each
workshop has its own, relatively narrow focus to facilitate meaningful
discussions and brainstorming.<br>
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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
(<a href="http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08</a></font></u>),
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. <b>Therefore, we will accept only
contributions covering two or more phases of the lifecycle, or process
life-cycle management in general.<br>
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TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :<br>
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<font face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica">The main issues for discussion
are:</font></b><font face="Symbol">
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<dd>· </font>Goals and approaches for Business process life-cycles
and their applicability<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Approaches, methods and technologies for the coupling
of life-cycle phases<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Management of the business process
lifecycle<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Support for the business process
lifecycle<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Metrics and continuous improvement of processes in the
life-cycle<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Evaluation and improvement may be practiced (i) in a
stable state of the organization, but also and probably often (ii)
because the environment changes.<font face="Arial, Helvetica">
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<dd>-<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Case
(i) is related to the quality (management) aspects and to the continuous
improvement<font face="Arial, Helvetica">
<dd>-<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Case
(ii) is related to the change management and BP transformation
</dl>
<dd>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.<font face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica"><b>
</dl>Examples of more concrete topics include, but are not limited
to:</font></b><font face="Symbol">
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<dd>· </font>Life-cycles for special types of business processes
<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Process and information integration in business
process life-cycles<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Processes for the management of business process
life-cycles<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Software systems to support the business process
life-cycle<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Metrics for business process
life-cycles<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)<font face="Symbol">
<dd>· </font>Specific transitions in the BP
life-cycle:<font face="Arial, Helvetica">
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<dd>- </font>Design to deployment modeling, verification,
alignment, organizational issues, etc.<font face="Arial, Helvetica">
<dd>- </font>Operation to redesign monitoring, mining, learning,
etc.<br>
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</dl>
</dl>SUBMISSIONS: <br>
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<font color="#0000FF">Papers submission deadline: February 15th,
2008<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>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. <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: February 15<sup>th</sup> 2008<br>
Notification of acceptance: March 21<sup>st</sup> 2008<br>
Camera-ready papers due: April 8<sup>th</sup> 2008<br>
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<b>ORGANIZERS: <br>
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</b>Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France. <br>
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. <br>
Pnina Soffer,<font color="#0000FF"> </font>University of Haifa, Israel.
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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>
Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland. <br>
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<b>WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<br>
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</b>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 Hochmuller Carinthia University of Applied Sciences,
Klagenfurt, Austria<br>
Paul Johannesson Royal University of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden<br>
Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia<br>
Agnes Koschmider University of Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
Peri Loucopoulos Loughborough University, UK<br>
Jan Mendling Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia<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 Ulm, Germany<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>
Barbara Weber University of Insbruk, Austria<br>
Jelena Zdravkovic Royal University of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden<br>
Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Selmin NURCAN<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#0000FF">Submit a paper
to <b>BPMDS'08 </b>in conjunction with CAISE'08<b> <br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#FF0000">Don't miss
<b>CAISE'08</font></b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#008080">,
<a href="http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/" eudora="autourl">http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/</a>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#008080">Submit a paper to <b>RE'08 </b><a href="http://www.re08.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.re08.org/</a><br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#0000FF">Submit a paper to <b>REFS'08 </b>in conjunction with COMPSAC'08<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#FF0000">Don't miss <b>RCIS'08 </font></b><a href="http://www.farcampus.com/rcis/" eudora="autourl"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>http://www.farcampus.com/rcis/</a><br>
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