Call for Papers

BPM 2006

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006

Organized by VitaLab, Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information

Systems, Vienna University of Technology

BPM 2006 is the fourth in a conference series that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of business process management. BPM 2006 will be held in Vienna, Austria and is organized by the Institute of Information Systems, Vienna Internet Technologies Advanced Research Lab (VitaLab) at the Vienna University of Technology.

Papers presenting original contributions on business process management (theory, techniques, methods, software architectures) are sought. The language of the conference is English.

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	Business process modeling and analysis
	Software architectures
	Processes and service composition
	Business process and e-service repositories
	E-services architectures and technology
	Quality of Service in business processes
	Process planning and flexible workflow
	Formal models in business process management
	Process configuration and assembly
	Process simulation
	Process monitoring and tracking
	Process data warehousing and analysis
	Process mining
	Process patterns
	Security in business processes
	Case handling systems
	Cross-organizational process support, contracts
	Process verification and validation
	Workflow management systems
	Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
	Process-enhanced groupware
	Service-Oriented Architecture and Process Management
	Semantics and Semantic Web Services for Process Management

In addition to the main research track, BPM 2006 will include an industrial papers track. For this, the conference encourages industry practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on their impact on current information technology or business practice.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2006 web site. Please upload a self-contained PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than March 17, 2006 March 26, 2006 .

Papers must be in English. Papers must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper cannot exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late and submissions sent by fax will be immediately rejected. The same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page limit.

For papers submitted to the industrial track there is a 10 page limit. Industrial papers must be clearly marked as such so they can be appropriately reviewed by the program committee. Industrial papers submitted to the industrial track must otherwise follow the same format requirements as research papers.

All accepted paper will published in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author for accepted paper should register for the conference and plan to present the paper.

Authors of selected paper will be invited to submit a paper for a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, an Elsevier Science journal).