Call for papers

The second Chinese Conference on Business Process Management
(China BPM 2012)

http://ise.thss.tsinghua.edu.cn/BPM2012/English

Papers are solicited for the second Chinese Conference on Business Process Management. Both original research papers as well as experience papers reporting on industrial BPM use or applications are welcome. The conference will be held in August 2012 in Beijing and is an initiative of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Fudan University. The conference will be hosted by the School of Software, Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2012
Camera-ready Papers: 01 July 2012
Registration Deadline: 31 July 2012

Conference Dates: 2012-08-27~2012-08-28

With the globalization of business and the visualization of enterprises, efficient and effective business process management (BPM) has become increasingly important. The first Chinese Conference on Business Process Management provides a research forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings. We aim to attract innovative research of the highest quality to improve the development and use of BPM technology in China. Through this conference, we aim to set up a bridge between actual industrial requirements and leading edge research outcomes. To this end, we not only welcome original research contributions but also papers reporting on experiences with the application of cutting edge BPM methods, techniques or tools.

Apart from paper presentations, the conference also aims to encourage the exchange of ideas through structured group discussions, system demonstrations, and reports of research groups.

Topics
Research topics include, but are not limited to:

Business process modeling and analysis
? Languages, notations and methods
? Reference models
? Process composition and synthesis
? Process model repository management
? Process model similarity
? Process model configuration and variability management
? Simulation and static analysis
? Meta-data and semantic reasoning
? Process patterns
? Process quality
? Process improvement and optimization
? Aspect-oriented process modeling

Process architectures and platforms
? Process-oriented software architectures
? Service-oriented architectures for BPM
? Workflow management systems
? Security of process execution
? Automatic planning for process execution
? Resource management for process execution

Management of process execution data
? Process tracing and monitoring
? Dynamic process analysis and process performance measurement
? Process mining and learning
? Process data warehousing
? Data streaming in business processes
? Process data visualization

Process evolution and flexibility
? Process exception handling
? Process change management
? Monitoring of and provenance support for change
? Adaptive and context-aware processes
? Case handling
? Process-enhanced groupware

Management Issues and Empirical Studies
? Business process lifecycle management
? Requirements modeling and process design
? Success factors and measures in BPM
? BPM governance and compliance management
? Relationship between business strategy and business process
? BPM maturity
? Adoption and practice of BPM
? Success stories and experiences in BPM practices

Non-traditional BPM Scenarios
? Distributed process management
? Knowledge-intensive processes
? Data-driven business processes
? Distributed and mobile processes
? Inter-process planning and coordination
? Scientific processes / grid workflows
? Process management in the life sciences
? Process management in e-health systems

Challenges of BPM in enterprises and governments
? Requirement acquisition around business processes
? Innovative BPM implementations and applications
? The impact of BPM on information technology use and business practice

Paper Submission
Papers submitted to the conference should be original and not have been published or under submission elsewhere. Papers may be written in Chinese or in English. Reviews are based on full papers and every paper is expected to be reviewed by three reviewers.

Papers should be prepared in this format which should not exceed 12 pages in English and 10 pages in Chinese. All papers should be submitted through the website https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cbpm2012. All accepted papers will be included in a special issue of the journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS) and will be indexed by EI.