The 4th International Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management (TCoB 2009)

6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy

In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009)

Co-chairs
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Ulm University, Germany
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Linh Thao Ly
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Ulm University, Germany
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Lucinéia Heloisa Thom
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Ulm University, Germany
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Background and Goals
Business process management (BPM) technologies are considered as one of the key success stories in providing process control and monitoring functions, and addressing complex integration requirements in enterprise systems. However, the expectation of what this technology must deliver is a moving target. Whereas the success of coordinative processes depends upon the conformance to the prescribed control flow, the success of the collaborative process depends upon the ability to detect and react to changing conditions. What was true for workflow systems is no longer acceptable in the dynamic and cross organizational requirements for management of collaborative processes. The trend is going towards agile, responsive, and (self-)adaptive business processes which are able to make use of existing context information in order to align to changing business requirements.

BPM has become a very extensive area with several specialized aspects. This workshop intends to provide a forum wherein challenges in flexible, context-aware, and collaborative business process management can be debated. We seek papers that present innovative technology solutions to these challenges based on well justified practical assumptions and sound theoretical foundations.

Submitted papers will be 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.

Topics of Interest
This year we particularly solicit approaches to context-aware, agile, responsive, and adaptive business processes. Below we provide a list of relevant topics, however papers outside these topics but within the general scope of the workshop scope will still be considered.

· Context-aware business processes
· Adaptive process management
· Context modeling (e.g., ontologies, rule-based approaches)  
· Knowledge and task management in (collaborative) processes
· Self-adapting / self-healing business processes
· Technologies for modeling and analysis of (collaborative) processes
· Interactive approaches for end-user engagement and visualization of business processes (can include Web 2.0)
· Event driven process management
· Collaboration modeling using game theory and/or social networks (wisdom of crowds) in Business Process Management
· Usability and technology adoption of BPM solutions
· Exception Handling in BPM
· Patterns for context-aware BPM

Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: deadline expired
Authors Notification: deadline expired
Final Paper Submission and Registration: deadline expired

Workshop Program Committee
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Jan Mendling, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Olivier Perrin, Nancy 2 University, France
Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research, Germany
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Julien Vayssiere, Smart Services CRC, Australia
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dirk Werth, Business Integration Institute for Information Systems, Germany
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and tables).
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
In addition, an email must be sent to all workshop chairs including: title, authors' affiliation, and an abstract of the paper submitted.

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2009 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.

Secretariat Contacts
ICEIS Workshops - TCoB 2009
e-mail: workshops@iceis.org