8th International Conference on Business Process Management

Hoboken, New Jersey
September 13-16, 2010
http://www.bpm2010.org/

Business Process Management (BPM) becomes increasingly important as companies want to increase insight, efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. BPM 2010 is the eighth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings. It will be held from September 13-16, 2010, at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, just minutes from downtown Manhattan. The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality, from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Management Information Science, Services Computing, Services Science, and Technology Management. The acceptance rate at the BPM conference has traditionally been around 15%. In addition to showcasing leading research, the conference provides a venue for the discussion of BPM education, the demonstration of innovative systems with BPM functionalities, and an exchange among BPM practitioners.

We invite contributions in four different areas:

- Research Papers
- Industry Contributions
- Education and Curriculum Papers
- Demonstrations and Prototypes

Call for Research Papers (Deadline: 14 March 2010)

BPM 2010 continues with the broad-based themes of previous BPM conferences, and strives to strengthen and expand in several key directions. The conference especially encourages emerging research on new conceptual models for BPM understood broadly, models that attempt to unify core aspects of BPM, including process management, data management, business rules and requirements, and analytics, that until recently have been represented using rather disparate conceptual models. The conference also encourages the increasing interest in applying established and new techniques, such as model-driven architectures, Web services and Web architectures, SOA, and Cloud Computing , to the specific challenges of BPM. Finally, the conference seeks to attract papers that highlight the pervasive need for BPM capabilities across application areas outside of business management, including healthcare delivery, digital government, disaster management, and management of scientific and other academic endeavors, and that highlight how new techniques can solve the distinctive challenges arising in those diverse areas.

For more information see http://www.bpm2010.org/call-for-papers/call-for-research-papers/

Call for Education and Curriculum Papers (Due: 14 March 2010)

The new Education and Curriculum track invites papers that examine effective education and training methods for developing the BPM professional. The intent is to share and develop relevant knowledge and to promote fresh ideas for the integration of the broad spectrum of BPM dimensions into training and education courses and/or programs. General questions include the current state of BPM education in universities and/or professional education organizations, what courses and content of those courses are effective at developing BPM professionals, what methods of education/training deployment help BPM professionals understand the holistic nature of end-to-end process-centric organizations, and what types of skills and abilities are needed for BPM deployments and sustainment.

For more information see http://www.bpm2010.org/call-for-papers/call-for-education-papers/

Call for Demonstrations (Due: 17 May 2010)

The Demonstration track showcases innovative Business Process Management (BPM) tools and applications that may originate either from research initiatives or from industry. The Demonstration Track will provide an opportunity to present and discuss emerging technologies with researchers and practitioners in the BPM field. In addition, authors are invited to submit a paper describing their prototype for publication.

For more information see http://www.bpm2010.org/call-for-papers/demonstrations/

Call for Industry Contributions (Abstracts Due: 15 February 2010)

The BPM 2010 industry track will provide practitioners with the opportunity to present insight gained through BPM projects. We are particularly interested in case studies from the perspective of user organizations. We are particularly interested in contributions that address one the following themes:

-Process Modeling and Innovation Projects
-BPM Software Platforms and Architectures
-Process Analytics and Business Intelligence
-Process Flexibility and Evolution
-Management Issues in BPM

For more information see http://www.bpm2010.org/call-for-papers/call-for-industry-contributions/

Conference Committee:

General Chairs
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology
Henry Chang, IBM Research

Program Chairs
Rick Hull, IBM Research
Stefan Tai, Universität Karlsruhe
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Industry Chair
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology

Workshop Chair
Jianwen Su, University of California, Santa Barbara

Doctoral Consortium Chair
Ted Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology

Demo Chair
Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology

Contact: info@bpm2010.org

3rd International Workshop on Governance Risk and Compliance – Applications in Information Systems (GRCIS’10)

http://www.grcis.com

7 June, 2010
Hammamet, Tunisia
In conjunction with CAiSE’10

BACKGROUND
The importance of governance and associated issues of compliance and risk management is well recognized in enterprise systems. This importance has dramatically increased over the last few years as a result of numerous events that led to some of the largest scandals in corporate history. The governance, risk and compliance market is estimated to be worth over $32 billion. Tool support for governance, risk and compliance related initiatives is provided by over 100 software vendors, however, while the tools have on average tripled in price since 2003, they are often insufficient to meet organizational needs. At the same time, there is an increasing complexity in the facilitation of compliant business processes, which stems from an increasing number of regulations, frequent and dynamic changes, as well as shared processes and services executing in highly decentralized environments.

In the age of outsourcing, dynamic business networks, and global commerce, it is inevitable that organizations will need to develop methods, tools and techniques to design, engineer, and assess processes and services that meet regulatory, standard and contractual obligations. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) can be expected to play a significant part in several applications. This area is emerging as a critical and challenging area of research and innovation. It introduces, among others, the need for new or adapted modeling approaches for compliance requirements, extension of process and service modeling and execution frameworks for compliance and risk management, and detection of policy violations.

This workshop provides a forum for researchers from diverse backgrounds to contribute to this emerging area and make a consolidated contribution in the form of new and extended methods that address the challenges of governance, risk and compliance in information systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics covered by the workshop will include at least the following:

* Policy definition and enforcement
* Compliant service and process design
* Noncompliant process identification
* Risk management
* Visualization and simulation of risk in process models
* Governance processes
* Integration and effectuation of multiple regulatory standards
* Compliance, risk and tolerance metrics
* Organizational structures to support compliance
* Separation of duties/Separation of rights
* Decision tracing
* Data provenance and lineage
* Work tracking
* Violation detection
* Technologies for compliance assurance
* Applications, case studies and use cases

Submitted papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process and evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution, and relation to previous research. Position and survey papers are also welcome. The proceedings will be published as online CEUR Workshop Proceedings. We are currently negotiating a Special Issue in a high quality international journal for selected best papers from the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2010
Camera ready: April 15, 2010
Workshop: June 7, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. As the review process is double-blind, papers must not include author details. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. It is expected that at least one author of each accepted paper will register for and attend the workshop. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system found at http://www.easychair.org/
conferences/?conf=grcis2010.

CO-CHAIRS
Dr Marta Indulska
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia

Dr Michael zur Muehlen
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

Dr Shazia Sadiq
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia

CONTACT
Email: grcis@business.uq.edu.au

1st International Workshop on Empirical Research in Process-oriented Information Systems

To be held 8 June 2010 in conjunction with CAiSE 2010 in Hammamet, Tunesia

Official website: www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/erpois2010

I. Workshop Theme and Goals

Since the advent of business process reengineering in the 1990s,  modeling and optimization of business processes has become a critical factor in business as well as in non-profit and government organizations. Today, with many forms of interorganizational cooperation in the form of e-business, outsourcing, and other kinds of value webs, business process management and coordination process management are crucial for the survival of organizations. As a result, information systems are required to manipulate not only data but also processes. Process-oriented information systems (POIS) are systems that can provide data support as well as process support to organizations. Examples are workflow management systems, ERP systems, and systems for cross-organizational coordination management.

Some of the challenges facing POIS include requirements management, performance monitoring, service level agreements and governance. The 1st International Workshop on  Empirical Research in Process-Oriented Information Systems (ER-POIS 2010) aims to provide a platform for exchanging empirical research results about POIS problems and solutions.

The workshop takes an empirical perspective, which means that we will not solicit papers that propose solutions, new techniques or methods, but solicit papers with empirical research results about existing problems or implemented solutions, or about empirical validations of proposed solutions. We assume the solutions have been specified elsewhere, possibly in earlier papers.

We encourage the use of any research method, ranging from experimental research to surveys, case studies and action research, provided that a discussion of the validity of the method and of the results obtained with the method is included in the paper.

II. Workshop Format

The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers and tool reports. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, and will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and shall particularly address the relation to transferring methods and technologies into practice.

Accepted papers will appear in the joint CAiSE workshop proceedings which will be distributed in the electronic library CEUR http://ceur-ws.org (and on USB sticks at CAiSE). The proceedings will have an ISSN number and will be accessible for everyone on the CEUR website. The authors will keep the copyright of their papers. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.

III. Submitting a Paper

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed in the Topics section. Only papers in English will be accepted. Different paper types are distinguished. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (there is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the Springer LNCS format.

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 (full paper | position paper | tool report).

Papers should be submitted in PDF format electronically via the EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erpois2010

IV. Topics

Topics include but are not limited to…

• Requirements engineering for POIS
• Cost and benefit estimation for POIS
• Risk management of POIS
• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for POIS
• Evaluation of development methods for POIS
• Cross-organizational POIS
• POIS implementation
• COTS and POIS
• User acceptance of POIS
• Role of POIS in business-IT alignment
• Strategic issue of POIS
• Governance of POIS
• Enterprise architecture and POIS
• Adoption and success of POIS

V. Journal Publication

Top papers will be considered (after extension and enhancement) for publication in the Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. Reviewing for the special issue will be done by the same reviewers who reviewed the earlier workshop paper.

VI. Organizers & Program Committee

Workshop Chairs & Organizers:

Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany, Email: bela.mutschler@hs-weingarten.de

Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Email: j.recker@qut.edu.au

Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Email: roelw@cs.utwente.nl

Program Committee:

• Richard Baskerville, USA
• Sjaak Brinkkemper, The Netherlands
• Eric Dubois, Luxemburg
• Marta Indulska, Australia
• Matthias Jarke, Germany
• Pontus Johnson, Sweden
• Kalle Lyytinen, USA
• Jan Mendling, Germany
• Bela Mutschler, Germany (Co-chair)
• Andreas Opdahl, Norway
• Jinsoo Park, Korea
• Oscar Pastor, Spain
• Yves Peigneur, Switzerland
• Jan Recker, Australia (Co-chair)
• Manfred Reichert, Germany
• Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Austria
• Matti Rossi, Finland
• Marcus Rothenberger, USA
• Camille Salinesi, France
• Keng Siau, USA
• Roel Wieringa, The Netherlands (Co-chair)
• Barbara Weber, Austria

VII. Important Dates

• Deadline for paper submissions: 28 February 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2010
• Camera-ready papers deadline: 15 April 2010
• Workshop: 8 June 2010

VIII. Official website

http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/erpois2010/

AMCIS 2010 Call for Papers

Business Process Management and Innovation mini-track
[Systems Analysis & Design track]

August 12-15, 2010,
Lima, Peru

http://www.amcis2010.org

Over the past 15 years attitudes toward business processes have changed significantly within organizations. What started with Total Quality Management initiatives and continued through Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects of the early1990s has evolved into a comprehensive management practice that permeates both the business and the technology side of organizations. Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as methods and tools surrounding the definition, implementation, and improvement of lateral processes in organizations. BPM tools and techniques play a significant role in both intra-organizational and inter-organizational process design. As BPM continues to gain importance in today’s organization, an increasing number of studies detail efficiency, effectiveness and agility improvements resulting from process management initiatives. Innovative industrial implementations and applications of BPM methods and techniques are of much interest today, given their potential for bringing significant gains to the enterprise through the automated coordination of activities, process participants and the integration of applications.

This mini-track seeks contributions that discuss the management of business processes as well as technologies for process automation. We encourage submissions from both a managerial as well as a technical perspective.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Selected best papers from the mini-track will be invited to the BPM special issue of the Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS). For further information about AMCIS2010, its tracks and mini-tracks, please see: http://www.amcis2010.org

Mini-track Chairs:
Amit V. Deokar, Dakota State University, USA
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia