Workshops

In conjunction with BPM 2006, a series of workshops will take place. They are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between active researchers, and stimulate discussions on new and emerging topics in line with the conference topics. We invite prospective workshop organisers to submit proposals till Dec. 31st 2005 to the workshop chair. A proposal should contain title and topic of the workshop, information on the indented audience, Brief vita of the proposers and possibly a draft call for workshop papers. Organisational details for workshops can be obtained by the workshop chair. All workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Organising Committee. Proposer will be notified till January 15th, 2006.

The six accepted workshops are:

Description

Process design is the conscious evaluation and organization of the tasks that a business process is composed of. Process design is typically driven by the desire for increased process performance (e.g. increased customer satisfaction, accelerated process execution) or the requirement for process conformance (e.g. ISO, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley). In contemporary process designs, IT often plays a great part as a means to automate parts of the process and to facilitate the process execution and monitoring.

Description

Business Process Intelligence (BPI) is an emerging area that has been taking increasing importance during the last years as a consequence of the pressure to improve the business processes underlying a company's business operations to better meet its business goals. BPI is the application of techniques from the different facets of business intelligence (BI) to business processes. A number of groups in different research areas are working on technologies to support different aspects of BPI, although they do not often share the same terminology. Many´other names exist for such technologies, and there is a lack of clarity in the meaning of terms like BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), BOM (Business Operations Management), BPM (Business Performance Management), among others. The reality is that there is much overlap among techniques and tools supporting all these technologies. Following up the success of the first edition of BPI (BPI'05), this second edition intends to bridge across the various research areas that are related to BPI. At the same time the workshop is an opportunity to continue consolidating this area and building a multidisciplinary community.

Description

Follow-up the success of the first edition of the ENEI’05 workshop (http://www.loria.fr/~nacer/BPM-ENEI05/ENEI-CfP.html) this second edition addresses computer-supported integration and interoperability of enterprise applications and software. Indeed, enterprises are provided with collections of heterogeneous applications and software tools that were nor designed nor developed to favour their interaction and their cooperation. The problem is more crucial when one considers networked enterprises and enterprise expansion (through, for instance, alliances or merging). Moreover, interoperability within an enterprise and between enterprises is not limited to the only data interoperability but it should consider additional levels like applications, business models, process models, enterprise models, and their supporting systems (when these are available). One of the focus of this workshop edition is semantic-based solutions and enabling technology for enterprise and networked enterprises interoperability.

Description

Many e-science and complex e-business applications, such as climate modeling, astrophysics, high-energy physics, structural biology and chemistry, medical surgery, international banking, insurance, international stock market modeling and control, require the creation of a collaborative workflow management system as part of their sophisticated problem solving processes in the grid environments. At the same time, since many e-scientists and business people lack the necessary low-level expertise to utilize the current generation of Grid toolkits, such as GT4, and the specified workflow processes themselves can then be reused, shared, adapted and annotated with interpretations of quality, provenance and security, the research and development of grid workflow management systems become a must and have already evoked a high degree of interest. Furthermore, because the Grid requires a very highly distributed workflow management that can take advantage of the distributed resources across multi-institutional virtual organizations, the decentralized grid workflow deployment becomes a further interesting research area. As such, peer-to-peer based workflow comes into the picture, which is supposed to provide a kind of decentralized grid workflow infrastructure to more efficiently support widely spread grid workflows across the Grid. Given that a lot of valuable work has been done on business process management, the exploration of whether and how to apply existing business process technologies into grid workflow process management is another important focus of this workshop.

Description

Dynamic process support has become an extensive research topic in workflow management and Web Service technology with several specialized aspects. This workshop intends to provide a forum wherein challenges and paradigms for dynamic process management can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities (e.g., BPM, Web services, software engineering, and groupware) and / or application domains (e.g., healthcare, automotive sector) who share an interest in dynamic process support. We expect high quality submissions from these different fields taking our experience with comparable events in the past.

Description

semantics4ws'06 stand for "Advances in Semantics for Web services 2006"; the theme of this year semantics4ws workshop is “Semantic Web Service in Business Processes”. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of Semantic Web Services, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. More specifically, this workshop aims to tackle the research problems (as well as recent practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable semantics in the context of Web services, as well as discussing recent advances in semantics for Web services. Of particular interest are the architectural, technical, and developmental foundations of SWS, and showing how they combine synergistically to enable service automation on the scale required by today’s internetconnected enterprises.

If you have any questions, please contact the workshop chair.

Workshop Chair:

Johann Eder

University of Vienna, Austria

E-mail: johann.eder@univie.ac.at