[rules-users] WG: 4th International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 4th International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management collocated with BPM 2010 Hoboken, NJ, USA from September 13-16, 2010 http://www.bpm2010.org/conference-events/workshops/edbpm10/ Introduction -------------------------- The recently coined term «Event-Driven Business Process Management» (EDBPM) is nowadays an enhancement of BPM by new concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this context BPM means a software platform which provides companies the ability to model, manage, and optimize these processes for significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a parallel running platform that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and the CEP-platform correspond via events which are produced by the BPM-workflow engine and by the – if distributed - IT services which are associated with the business process steps. Also events coming from different event sources in different forms can trigger a business process or influence the execution of a process or a service, which can result in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a particular context can be treated as a complex, business level event, relevant for the execution of other business processes or services. A business process – arbitrarily fine or coarse grained – can be seen as a service again and can be “choreographed” with other business processes or services, even between different enterprises and organizations. Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides significant benefits: * Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and processes respond to them immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen. * Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and optimized more quickly in response to changing business requirements. * Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and programming languages. Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without breaking the process model. Workshop Themes -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the prior described problem domain. * Event-driven BPM: Concepts o Role of event processing in BPM o Business Events: types and representation o Event stream processing in business processes o Data- and event-driven business processes o Evaluation/ROI of event-driven BPM o Event-driven SOA o EDA and BPM o Real/time awareness in BPM o Context in BPM * Design-time CEP and BPM o Modelling languages, notations and methods for event-driven BPM o Event Patterns: Definition / Creation / Representation / Learning o BPMN and event processing o Modelling unknown/similar events in business processes o Modelling events in human-oriented tasks o Semantics/Ontologies for event-driven BPM o Publish/subscription mechanism and process modelling * Run-time CEP and BPM o Event pattern detection o BPEL and event processing o Reasoning about unknown/similar events o Distributed event processing o Dynamic workflows o Ad-hoc workflows * Applications/Use cases for event-driven BPM o Event-driven monitoring/BAM o Event-driven SLA monitoring o Domains: Logistics, Automotive, … o Event processing and Internet of Services Workshop Format -------------------------- The Workshop is planned as a full-day event, including a keynote, paper presentations, lightning talks, demos, posters, and a moderated, open discussion with the clear goal of agreeing upon a research roadmap for event-driven Business Process Management research, by taking into account new challenges, described earlier. A possible agenda: * 9:00 – 9:30 Opening and Keynote * 9:30 – 13:00 Paper Presentations * 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch * 14:00 – 15:00 Lightning Talks * 15:30 – 17:00 Moderated Community Discussion: A Roadmap for Event-driven Business Process Management Research * 18:00 – 21:00 Poster and Demo Presentations and Get-Together For the keynote, we aim at a high-profile speaker, who will give a rather visionary view on the role of Future Internet for BPM and vice versa. For the moderated community discussion, we will have senior experts from our Program Committee and Experts from an industrial background. A clear objective of that discussion is to yield a first draft of a respective research agenda. Important Dates -------------------------- Deadline paper submissions: 21 May 2010 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2010 Camera-ready papers: 25 July 2010 Workshops: 13 September 2010 Submission -------------------------- The following types of submission are solicited: * Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long. * Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be at most 6 pages long. * Use case submission, describing results from an edBPM use case. These papers should be at most 4 pages long. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (Long Paper/ Short Paper). For submission, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbpm10. Organizing Committee -------------------------- Nenad Stojanovic FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany nstojano (at) fzi.de URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483 Opher Etzion IBM Research Lab in Haifa OPHER (at) il.ibm.com Adrian Paschke Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin, Germany and RuleML Inc., Canada AG-CSW (Corporate Semantic Web) Institute for Computer Sciences Free University Berlin Königin-Luise-Str 24/26 14195 Berlin, Germany paschke (at) inf-fu-berlin.de Program Committee -------------------------- (see Website)