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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">International Conference on Data, Processes, and Software Systems (DPSS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hangzhou, China<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 21-23, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.icdpss.org">http://www.icdpss.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Data play a vital role in software application systems including<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">enterprise systems typically consisting of workflow/business<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">management systems that use software processes or (web or e-)services<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">adopting service oriented architecture (SOA). Data provide process<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(service) semantics (what a service performs, how its actions are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">related to the environment/context, etc.), and record progress of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">executions (activity or task status, resource usage and status,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">correlations, etc.). On the other hand, process execution further<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">generates additional data that are extremely useful for monitoring,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">auditing, compliance checking, etc. Process descriptions and execution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">logs could also be managed, queried, mined, and analyzed. In practice,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">much of these data belong to the "big data". A technical challenge is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to develop appropriate techniques and holistic approaches to model<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">business processes/workflows with both data and activities in order to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">guide and help developing, managing, and improving software systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for enterprise and applications.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since its inception more than 10 years ago, service oriented computing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">has prevailed as a concept and is now widely adopted in software<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">application development and investigated in academic research. A new<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">research community for services computing has formed. However, the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">services computing community has yet to fully embrace persistent data<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(their modeling, manipulation, and management) in many aspects<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">including modeling, composition, analysis, QoS, realization,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">inter-operation, and runtime support.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This conference is aimed at providing a forum for researchers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">practitioners, and experts in services computing and business<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">process/workflow management and in data management to explore and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">discuss technical challenges including modeling, implementation,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">improvements, analytics, long tail, integration, and interoperation in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">contexts where both data and processes are present. Through a better<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">understanding of the interactions between (persistent) data and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">processes/workflows, effective and efficient tools and techniques<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">could be developed to aid development of software application systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The conference seeks original technical contributions in theory,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">practice, and evaluation of design techniques for software systems to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">manage data, processes, and services. Topics of interest include but<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Artifact-centric processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Business analytics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Case management<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Choreography<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Cloud computing for data, processes, and services<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Collaborative business processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Data access methods for processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Data and process complexity analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Data design for processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Data-centric and data-aware processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Foundations of data-centric process models<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Management and access of processes (models)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Ontology for process models<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Process compliance and auditing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Process improvements/evolution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Process interoperation and cross service modeling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Process mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Process-oriented provenance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Processes as services<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Processes over incomplete data and knowledge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Quality metrics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Reasoning of data manipulations by processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Resource modeling and management for processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Scientific workflows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Service and process management<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Synthesis of data-centric/aware processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Trust and security in data and processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Verification of data-aware/centric processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Workflow transactions<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions must contain original contributions that have not been<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">published previously, nor concurrently under review by other<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">conferences or journals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions: December 16, 2013<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notification: February 7, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready: March 14, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Program Committee Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jianwen Su (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission Details<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">formatting guidelines (see<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>). Submissions must be in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">English not exceeding 16 pages in length. Submissions should be made<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">electronically and in PDF format on the EasyChair submission site:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpss2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpss2014</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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