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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to BPMDS'08

In Conjunction with CAiSE'08

The 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support
(BPMDS'08)
Business Process Life-Cycle: Design, Deployment, Operation & Evaluation
16-17 June 2008, Montpellier, France

The program of BPMDS'08 is available at
http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/Program_BPMDS08.htm

Visite the Web site of the workshop for more detailed information
http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds08

On line registration procedure is available at
http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS:

The BPMDS workshops have successfully served in the past eight years as a
forum for raising and discussing new ideas in the area of business process
development and support.

During the previous BPMDS workshops, various issues were discussed that
could be related to different, but isolated phases in the life-cycle of a
business process. In BPMDS'08 the focus is on interaction between two or
more phases of the life-cycle, as well as on the holistic view of the
whole life-cycle. Furthermore, the relationships between the phases and
their associated purposes are investigated.

Various methods dealing with the life-cycle of business processes have
been provided in the literature. Even if their process models are more or
less different, the principal phases they suggest are similar in terms of
targets: design, deployment, operation and evaluation. The design phase
starts with requirements definition and their support systems. In the
deployment phase, the business process is tested under performance,
compliance considerations etc. It is also verified for fulfilling the
customer's requirements. After successful testing, the business process is
released to operation. In the operation and evaluation phase, both normal
operation and the processing of exceptions have to be considered. To
identify needs for improvement, the business process has to be measured an
 analyzed. Then the (re)design phase can start again and the wheel of the
continuous improvement (PDCA) turns so.

Each of the phases has one or more purposes. The design phase has the
purpose to align the business process with the requirements of the
business and to assure its compliance with legal rules etc. The deployment
phase has the purpose to verify that the process fits the customer's
requirements and to test its performance. In the operation & evaluation
phase, the process has to be flexible while supporting the business goals,
and evaluation serves the purpose to enhance and improve the process.

The main issues for discussions will be:
• Goals and approaches for Business process life-cycles and their
applicability
• Approaches, methods and technologies for the coupling of lifecycle
phases
• Management of the business process lifecycle
• Purposes of the business process lifecycle phases and ways to achieve it
• Support for the business process lifecycle
• Metrics and continuous improvement of processes in the lifecycle

The 15 papers accepted to BPMDS'07 cover various phases of the business
process lifecycle. They are organized under the following section
headings.

We wish to thank all the people who submitted papers to the workshop for
having shared their work with us, as well as the members of the BPMDS'08
program Committee and the workshop organizers of CAiSE'08 for their help
with the Organization of the workshop.

LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Business process life cycles

• A Lifecycle Model for Using Process Fragment in Business Process Modeling, Zhilei Ma, Frank Leymann
• Towards a Classification and Lifecycle of Business Process Change, Karsten Ploesser, Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann
• Requirements for the Service Process Lifecycle, Rainer Schmidt

Web Services and the business process life cycle

• On Modelled Flexibility and Service Selection Optimisation, Roland Ukor, Andy Carpenter
• Towards Management of SLA-Aware Business Processes Based on Key Performance Indicators, Branimir Wetzstein, Dimka Karastoyanova, Frank Leymann
• How to better align BPM & SOA Ideas on improving the transition between process design and deployment, Sebastian Adam, Joerg Doerr

Systematic business process evolution

• Business Process Evolution: a Rule-based Approach, Mario Lezoche, Michele Missikoff, Leonardo Tininini
• Enabling Off-Line Business Process Analysis: A Transformation-Based Approach, Arnon Sturm
• A Goal-based approach for business process learning, Johny Ghattas, Pnina Soffer, Mor Peleg
• Context-aware Business Process Evaluation and redesign, Kahina Bessai, Bruno Claudepierre, Oumaima Saidani, Selmin Nurcan

Business process evolution: the human perspective

• Flexible Workflows: Reputation-based Message Routing, Ben Jennings, Anthony Finkelstein
• How to simplify the evolution of business process lifecycles, Alexander Samarin
• Why Business Process Improvement might not Bring Customer Satisfaction, Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

Specific forms of business process life-cycle

• Best practices oriented business process operation and design, Julija Stecjuka, Janis Makna, Marite Kirikova
• Smart business networks: architectural aspects and risks, L-F Pau

ORGANIZERS:

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France.
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel.

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden.
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK.
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden.
Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ian Alexander Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden
Signe Ellegaard Borch - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Stewart Green - University of the West of England, UK
Elke Hochmuller Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Klagenfurt,
Austria
Paul Johannesson Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia
Agnes Koschmider University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Peri Loucopoulos Loughborough University, UK
Jan Mendling Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Murali Mohan Narasipuram City University of Hong Kong
Selmin Nurcan University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
L. F. Pau Erasmus University, Netherlands
Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert University of Ulm, Germany
Peter Rittgen University College of Borås, Sweden
Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier University of Toronto, Canada
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden
Barbara Weber University of Insbruk, Austria
Jelena Zdravkovic Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael zur Muehlen - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

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