[re-online] First CFP: Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support

From: Gil Regev (gil.regev@epfl.ch)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 02:18:35 EST


Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support:

Creating and maintaining the fit between business processes and support systems (BPMDS'04)

In Conjunction with: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE*04) Riga, June 2004

Workshop theme


Business process orientation is considered to be an efficient way for companies and organizations to survive and flourish in the ever faster changing business world. The process-oriented way of working is difficult, if ever possible, to introduce without a properly designed business process support (BPS) system. This leads to a need to create and maintain a fit between the business and its BPS system, as well as between the business and its environment. Creating and maintaining such a fit is termed co-development of the business and the BPS system. It may be viewed as having two main phases, of first creating the fit and then maintaining it.

The focus of the creation phase is on concurrently designing business processes and business software applications. It involves RE activities as well as development and implementation activities of both business processes and BPS systems. All the involved activities relate to business as well as to technological issues. The maintenance phase is about the parallel evolution of the business and its BPS system.

This workshop is meant as a forum for discussing issues related to creating and maintaining the fit between business processes and BPS systems. It is the fifth in a series of international workshops on business process modeling, development, and support, designed as a meeting place for both researchers and practitioners in the fields of business development and business application software development.

The full version of this call for papers is available at: http://www.ibissoft.se/bpmds04/bpmds04.htm The Web page of the CAiSE*04 conference is: http://www.cs.rtu.lv/caise2004/

Topics of interest


The objective of the workshop is to discuss the main issues of creating and maintaining the fit between business processes and BPS. The following topics are of particular interest:

However, any other topic related to the fit between business processes and BPS is also of interest. The discussion will be facilitated by the existence of a mailing list and an interactive web site, established as a result of the last workshop (REBPS’03). The list, whose members are the participants of the workshop, has served for discussions and exchanging ideas since then, and will continue to do so towards BPMDS’04.

Submissions


Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper, maximum 5 pages, related to one or more of the main topics. The submitted papers will be reviewed by the organizers. The selection will consider relevance to the main topics as well as potential to generate relevant discussions.

Being a basis for discussion, a position paper does not necessarily need to include answers to the problems described above. A position paper that raises the relevant questions, describes successful or unsuccessful practice, or experience will be welcome as well.

All accepted position papers will be published on our website before the workshop, so that everybody can get some knowledge about the problems that are important for other participants. In addition, accepted papers will be published by CAiSE*04 organizers in the workshop proceedings volume. The volume will be distributed to workshop attendees.

To facilitate the interaction between the participants, the organizers will try to compile a list of questions that are of common interest for the group. The list will be published on our website and the mailing list well in advance of the workshop. Any proposals of what should be included in the list will be appreciated.

Expected results


Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize the results and outline the promising directions in the field. The pre-workshop interaction will assist in focusing the discussion during the workshop towards producing the working document.

After the workshop, the workshop materials together with a selection of the best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal.

Important dates


Submission deadline: March 22 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 12 2004 Submission of camera-ready version: April 26 2004

Papers should be submitted by email as Word or PDF documents to gil.regev@epfl.ch

Organizers


Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden. ilia@ibissoft.se

Gil Regev, School of computer and communication sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. gil.regev@epfl.ch

Pnina Soffer, MIS department, Haifa University, Israel. spnina@is.haifa.ac.il


To send a message to this mailing list send it to re-online@it.uts.edu.au. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, email majordomo@it.uts.edu.au with the message `unsubscribe re-online' in the BODY of the mail.

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Mon Jan 12 2004 - 09:00:13 EST