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BPMC14 2nd International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud in conjunction with BPM 2014, September 07-11 2014
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 08, 2014 http://projects.aifb.kit.edu/bpmc2014/
Workshop Program Venue: Room ZD 2.03, Eindhoven University of Technology Cloud
computing is a paradigm for the on-demand delivery of infrastructure,
platform, or software as a service. Cloud computing enables network
access to a shared pool of configurable computing
and storage resources as well as applications which can be tailored to
the consumer's needs. Cloud resources can be rapidly provisioned and
released, and are billed based on actual use, thus reducing up-front
investment costs. Not only can individual services
be hosted on virtual infrastructures but also complete process
platforms. Further, besides benefits to run-time Business Process
Management (BPM), during design-time cloud-based services can enable
collaboration between geographically dispersed teams and assist
the design process in general - amongst others, Process Modelling as a
Service removes the need for installation of software, and is thus more
attractive for the occasional user. A cloud-based architecture for BPM may provide important benefits: The research directions of core interest to this workshop are summarized by three questions: Among
a number of challenges, there is a lack of conceptualization and theory
on BPM with respect to cloud computing. For the most part, the topic of
cloud computing has only been implicitly
regarded in BPM research when discussing design-time tools. Few works
have addressed workflow enactment in the cloud to date. However, a
detailed research agenda which covers theory, design-time, run-time, and
use cases is missing. The goal of the 2nd International
Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud is to lay the
foundation for such a research agenda Topics Authors
are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned
problem domain. We also invite people from the scientific workflow
community to submit papers, so that the different
communities can share insights and ideas. Specifically, the relevant
topics include, but are not limited to: Submission The following types of submission are solicited:
Papers should be submitted in
LNBIP 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/ Short Paper/ Use case). All
workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop
proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP). These proceedings
will be made available to all registered participants approximately
four months after the workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be
distributed during the workshop. Papers can be uploaded via the submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmc14 Important Dates Extended deadline paper submissions: 08 June 2014 Notification of acceptance: 01 July 2014 Camera-ready papers due: 23 July 2014 Format of the Workshop The
workshop is planned as a half-day event, including a keynote, paper
presentations, and a moderated, open discussion with the clear goal of
agreeing upon a research roadmap for business process
management and the cloud research, by taking into account new
challenges as described earlier. For
the keynote, we aim at a speaker who will give a rather visionary view
on the role of BPM in the Cloud. A clear objective of the closing
discussion is to yield a first draft of a respective
research agenda. Organizing Committee
Ingo Weber (contact)
Christian Janiesch
Stefan Schulte
Program Committee Arun Anandasivam, IBM |