[ecoop-info] BPMDS'2017 - Call for Papers (in conjunction with CAISE'17)

Sat Nov 26 14:29:40 CET 2016

Dear colleagues,

BPMDS is a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE (Conference on 
Advanced Information Systems Engineering).

The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business 
processes and their IT support. One of the major aims is to discuss and 
to learn about concepts and techniques to enhance the ability to 
engineer software systems closer the business requirements.

The papers should be submitted through the conference management system 
available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2017

After the BPMDS'17 conference, extended versions of the accepted papers 
will be considered for publishing in a special issue of the 
International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM).

Kind regards,
Selmin Nurcan

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International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and 
Support (BPMDS'2017)

the 18th edition of the BPMDS series
                                 held in conjunction with CAiSE'17

12-13 June 2017, Essen, Germany

Submission deadline: March  1st, 2017

The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMDS Web site
http://www.bpmds.org

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SPONSORS:
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- Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). BPMDS 
Working Conference is officially linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE 
conference series).
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 
(IFIP WG 8.1).

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper abstracts (recommended): February 25th, 2017
Submission deadline: March 1st, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: April 6th, 2017

ABOUT THE BPMDS CONFERENCE:
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The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business 
processes and their IT support. This is one of the keystones of 
information systems theory beyond short-lived fashions. The continued 
interest in this topic on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the 
success of the past BPMDS events, and their promotion from a workshop to 
a working conference.

The BPMDS series has produced seventeen events from 1998 to 2016. From 
2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE 
(Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). The basic 
principles of the BPMDS series are:

1. BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in 
the areas of business development, and business applications (software) 
development
2. The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than presentations.
3. Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers.
4. Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue of an 
international journal.

The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the web site: 
http://www.bpmds.org/history

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
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BPMDS solicits papers related to *Business Process Modeling, Development 
and Support (BPMDS) *using quality, relevance, originality and 
applicability as main selection criteria. As a working conference, 
BPMDS'17 seeks to attract /full research papers/ describing mature 
research, /experience reports/ related to using BPMDS in practice, and 
visionary /idea papers/. Practitioners are also encouraged to present 
/lessons learned from practice/.

The focus theme for *BPMDS'17 idea papers* is

*Enabling Business Transformation by Business Process Modeling, 
Development and Support*

Papers submitted in the category idea papers will be required to be of 
relevance to the focus theme, thus providing a mass of new ideas around 
a relatively narrow but emerging research area.

For the 18th edition of the BPMDS conference, we invite the interested 
authors to engage during the two days of BPMDS'2017 in Essen, and to 
take part in a deep discussion with all participants about the 
challenges of business transformation in the digitally connected world 
and the ways /business process modeling, development and support/ may 
provide capabilities to deal with those challenges. The challenges 
result, among others, from the impacts of the ubiquity of the actors, 
social networks, new business models, the co-existence of flexibility, 
exception handling, context awareness and personalization requirements 
together with other compliance and quality requirements.

Practitioners are producing business process models, researchers are 
studying/producing business process models, and also are producing new 
modeling languages when they consider that existing ones are not 
sufficient. What is beyond? Which kind of analyses can we make using 
those process models? How can we complete / enhance those process models 
with annotations, with data coming from everywhere out of the immediate 
process environment? How can the understanding we gain by working on 
those models in a sandbox help / facilitate the undergoing business 
transformation?

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

*Business transformation and BPMDS**
*-    How does BPMDS enable and contribute to analyzing / understanding 
/ representing business transformation?
-    How does business transformation influence BPMDS?
-     How do projects of business process modeling, development and 
support contribute to increasing innovative capacities for business 
transformation?
-    What are the relationships between various types of BPS systems 
(SoS vs. WFMS, for instance) and types of transformation they help to 
support?
-    How do transformative technologies such as IoT, cloud-computing, 
Big Data, etc., impact BPMDS, particularly do they change the notion of 
business process?
-    How does the rise of platforms and bidirectional markets influence 
BPMDS?
-    What are cases where business process related projects supported / 
facilitated business transformation?
-    What are cases where business process related projects did not 
support / facilitate business transformation?
-    How can BPMDS contribute to integrating people for business 
transformation, e. g., via human-centric business processes?
-    Business process ecosystems in a connected and elastic world
-    Pervasive business processes and ubiquitous actors supporting 
business transformation
-    The roles of BPMDS in business analytics and in exploiting the data 
abundance ("Big Data")
-    New capabilities of analysis of business process models to support 
business transformation*
**
Business Process Modeling*
- Business process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Multi-perspectives on business process modeling
- Coherence among multi-perspective representations
- Theoretical foundations for analyzing, modeling business processes
- Verification and validation of business process models
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Dynamic configuration: modeling by reuse
- Granularity, development of reusable and context-aware components: 
modeling for reuse
- Domain specific reference models and domain specific modeling languages
- Decision management and BPMDS
- Business process modeling enhanced by social software and social networks

*Business Process Development*
-  Compliance, reliability, security, performance
- Flexibility, variability, adaptability
- Metrics, maturity and continuous improvement
- Strategy, business processes, people and IT: alignment, fit and coherence
- Knowledge-intensive business processes
- Context aware business processes
- Cross-organizational business processes
- Data-intensive business processes
- Business process change management and governance issues
- Enhancing creativity in business processes

*Business Process Support*
- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business processes
- Service orientation for better supporting business processes 
(appropriate level of flexibility, variability, granularity, ...)
- Business process support combined with social software and social networks
- Context aware work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs. control support in business processes
- Mobile technologies and context aware business processes
- Business processes using cloud-services

SUBMISSIONS:
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Prospective conference participants are invited to submit a paper that 
concerns business process modeling and development, and/or business 
process support (development of software dedicated to business 
processes). We solicit the papers (both research papers and experience 
reports) that contain results worth of discussion. Full research papers 
should report research in an advanced stage, including results and at 
least partial evaluation.

Thus four categories of submissions are welcome:

(1) *Full research papers (*could be technical papers or empirical 
evaluation papers).

(2) *Experience reports* should follow guidelines in 
http://www.bpmds.org/guidelines.

(3) *Idea papers *related to the focus theme "Enabling Business 
Transformation by Business Process Modeling, Development and Support", 
should address completely new research positions or approaches. The 
compliance to the focus theme is mandatory for idea papers, which should 
describe precisely the situation and demonstrate the shortcomings of 
current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, meta-models, etc.

Papers of the first three submission types should be of up to 15 pages. 
Please follow the LNCS format instructions at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for all of them.

(4) *Lessons learned from practice* (new category added this year). We 
welcome all practitioners to share with BPMDS participants and followers 
their own experience in the topics (see below) related to the BPMDS 
conference. This category of /short papers/ with up to 8 pages follow 
the guidelines suggested for the category (2). Conformity with LNCS 
guidelines is not mandatory for this category. The accepted propositions 
will be presented during the BPMDS'17 industrial track and will be 
published on the BPMDS web site or in the CAISE Radar proceedings.

Papers should be submitted in Adobe PDF format. The results described 
must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Please 
submit through the conference management system available at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2017.

PUBLICATIONS:
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The conference proceedings will be published in a Springer LNBIP volume 
(joint with EMMSAD), "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information 
Systems Modeling", as the five previous years (LNBIP 29, LNBIP 50, LNBIP 
81, LNBIP 113, LNBIP 147 LNBIP 175). Contributing authors may find all 
relevant information at http://www.springer.com/series/7911

After the BPMDS'17 conference, extended versions of the accepted papers 
will be considered for publishing in a special issue of the 
International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM).

The previous special issues are: BPMDS'16 in /SoSyM launched/; BPMDS'15 
in /SoSyM in progress/; BPMDS'14 in /SoSyM, papers already online, 
printed issue coming soon/; BPMDS'13 in /SoSyM, vol. 15, issue 2, May 
2016/; BPMDS'12 in /SoSyM, vol. 14, issue 3, July 2015/; BPMDS'11 in 
/IJISMD, vol. 4, issue 2, 2013/; BPMDS'10 selected paper in /REJ, vol. 
17, issue 2, 2012/; BPMDS'09 in /IJISMD, vol. 2, issue 2, 2011/; 
BPMDS'08 in /JSME vol. 24, issue 3, 2012/; BPMDS'07 in /IJBPIM, vol. 4, 
issue 2, 2009/; BPMDS'06 in /IJBPIM, vol. 3, issue 1, 2008/; BPMDS'05 in 
/SPIP, vol. 12, issue 1, 2007/; BPMDS'04 in /SPIP vol. 10, issue 4, 2005 
& REJ vol. 10, issue 3, 2005/; BPMDS'02 in /BPMJ, vol. 11, issue 6, 2005/.

The proceedings of BPMDS'16 are available at
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9

The proceedings of BPMDS'15 are available at
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-19237-6

The proceedings of BPMDS'14 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-662-43744-5/

The proceedings of BPMDS'13 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-38483-7/

The proceedings of BPMDS'12 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-31071-3/

The proceedings of BPMDS'11 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-21758-6/

The proceedings of BPMDS'10 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-13050-2/

The proceedings of BPMDS'09 are available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-01861-9/

ORGANIZERS and PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
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Selmin Nurcan -- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Ilia Bider -- Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden
Selmin Nurcan -- University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt -- Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pnina Soffer  -- University of Haifa, Israel

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:
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Ilia Bider, Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden
Pascal Negros, Arch4IE, France
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland

INDUSTRIAL TRACK CHAIRS:
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Rainer Schmidt -- Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Eric Andonoff , Université Toulouse 1, France
Judith Barrios Albornoz, University Los Andes, Venezuela
Ilia Bider, Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden
Kahina Bessai,  Nancy-Université, France
Karsten Boehm, FH KufsteinTirol -- University of Applied Science, Austria
Lars Brehm, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Dirk Fahland, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Claude Godart, Nancy-Université, France
Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Amine Jalali,  Stockholm University, Sweden
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Michael Möhring, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pascal Negros, Arch4IE, France
Jens Nimis, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Polytechnica de Valencia, Spain
Elias Pimenidis, University of the West of England
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, CNAM, France
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark
Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Jelena Zdravkovic, Royal University of Technology, Sweden
Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany

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The 18th edition on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support
(BPMDS'2017) in conjunction with CAISE'2017
*BPMDS is a WORKING CONFERENCE in conjunction with CAISE*.
June 12-13, 2017, Essen, Germany
http://bpmds.org/
Previous Springer BPMDS LNBIP proceedings are accessible from:
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