Call for Papers Deadline Extension - TC4SP2011

Submitted by terkhorn on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 14:14
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Extension - Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Traceability and Compliance of Semi-Structured Processes (TC4SP2011) 

August 29th, 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France, co-located with the 
9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011).

Extension to Submission Date

Please note the extension to the submission date!  Papers may now be submitted until Monday, May 22, 2011.

Background
Semi-structured processes are those business or scientific processes whose lifecycle is not fully driven by a formal process model. Often, an informal description of the process is available in the form of a process graph, flow chart or an abstract state diagram, but the execution is not completely controlled by a central entity (such as a workflow engine), if at all. Instead, a variety of IT and human centric mechanisms are used, including email, content management systems, web-based forms, custom applications or a combination thereof.
Examples of semi-structured processes are collaborative and case oriented processes as well as most end to end line of business processes in commercial enterprises. Even when there is a formally managed process in place, there are often exceptional situations that fall outside the purview of the workflow engine, making measuring compliance against desired business & regulatory policies difficult. In spite of the widespread adoption of BPM technology, semi-structured processes are commonplace in today's commercial and governmental organizations.
Semi-structured processes, on the other hand, lack most of the advantages provided by business process management systems (BPMSs). In particular, one major advantage of process management is oversight through the inherent provenance of data and actions. Being able to answer the question 'Who did what when and how?' makes processes transparent and reproducible, supports compliance monitoring and root cause analysis, and provides the means for deep mining of activities and information.
The goal of this workshop is to investigate how to extend the oversight, traceability and compliance management of traditional BPMSs to semi-structured processes through techniques and algorithms to gather, correlate, analyze, and persist provenance data of processes execution. The workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities -- such as business process management, scientific workflow, complex event and compliance monitoring, data and process mining -- who share an interest in semi-structured processes. We encourage submissions that report the current state of research in the area and share practical experiences.
Topics
 
The list of topics that are relevant to this workshop includes the following, but is not
limited to: 



    

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Methodologies for capturing, querying and processing provenance, including
    
provenance of business process and scientific workflows.

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Management and implementation of compliance requirements.

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Provenance systems that enable traceability and compliance.

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Compliance and performance monitoring of collaborative processes.

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  • Legal audit support and root cause analysis. 
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Data and process mining of provenance traces.

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Emerging standards and provenance models.

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Management and retention of process traces.

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Correlation analysis of process events for semi-structured processes

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Technology, methods and tools for exploring and understanding semi-structured processes across multiple systems and services

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Methods and tools for analysis of conversation-oriented and social interactions of
    
people in the context of semi-structured processes

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Paper submission 


Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers up to 12 pages reporting

completed research, and short papers up to 6 pages reporting on-going and preliminary

work. Authors are encouraged to plan for a demonstration of their work during the

workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tc4sp2011 . Papers should follow the same

LNBIP formatting guidelines as defined by the BPM 2011 conference

(http://bpm2011.isima.fr/cfp.html).


Important dates 


Submissions due (Closed): Monday, May 22, 2011 - Midnight HAST (Hawaiian Standard Time)

Notification: Friday, July 1, 2011

Camera ready papers due: Friday , August 5, 2011

Workshop Date: August 29, 2011


Organization 


Francisco Curbera (IBM Research)

Frank Leyman (University of Stuttgart)

Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad (HP Labs)

Beth Plale (Indiana University)


Program committee


Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy

Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Geetika T. Lakshmanan, IBM Research, USA

Axel Martens, IBM Research, USA

Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK

Florian Rosenberg, IBM Research

Satya Sahoo, Wright University, USA

Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland

Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany

Sudha Ram, University of Arizona