Third International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes (DDBP 2010)
In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010) 25-29 October
2010, Vitoria, ES, Brazil

Scope
Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, dynamic business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation: design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations. Central to the field of dynamic business processes is the notion of requirement, which make dynamic business process particularly suited to a
declarative approach to their modelling and design.
The declarative approach to dynamic business processes raises a number of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking compliance or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements. Dynamic and declarative business processes have proved their use in a wide number of domains, and are expected to
impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and tandardization efforts.
The theme of the 3rd International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes is "On Supporting Business Process Evolution". The evolution of processes and their underlying software systems becomes more and more an important and interesting topic in business process management. Since the life time of software systems frequently spans many years, business processes modelled on top of systems cannot be assumed to remain fixed, and migration between different versions is essential. As a consequence, modelling and management techniques developed in the context of ad-hoc, short-term composition of services and their processes lack the necessary constructs to concisely express the gradual evolution of processes and software systems and new dynamic and/or declarative approaches in this context are required.
This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems, case studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of concrete
examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work in progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work on formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are also sought-after.

Topics
Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
Dynamic/declarative business process modelling
Implementation issues for dynamic/declarative processes
Tools for dynamic/declarative processes
Real-world use cases of dynamic/declarative business processes
Business rules and policies
Rule driven business process engines
Business + technical requirements for dynamic/declarative processes
Dynamic/declarative model specification
Mathematical foundations of dynamic/declarative business processes
Formal models of dynamic/declarative business processes
Monitoring of dynamic/declarative business processes
Validation and model checking of dynamic/declarative business processes
Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for dynamic and declarative business processes
Service-oriented architectures and dynamic/declarative business processes
Interoperability for dynamic/declarative business processes
Semantic Web and ontologies and declarative and dynamic business processes
Collaboration and declarative/dynamic business processes
Data-driven process evolution
Evolution of cross-organisational processes / process choreographies
Complex event processing models/support for dynamic and declarative business processes

Submission
The workshop duration is one day. It will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long and must use the two-column format of IEEE conference proceedings and include the author?s name, affiliation, and contact details.
Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair.
Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee by the 4th of June 2010. At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010Workshops will be published with their own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library (pending approval by IEEE), which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper should register for the main conference in order to present their papers.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: May 2nd, 2010 (extended)
Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due: June 16th, 2010

Workshop Co-chairs
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University and Simon Fraser University, Canada
Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia
Sylvain Halle, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Florian Rosenberg, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Program Committee
(Based on DDBP 2009 and special journal issue, see below.)
Colin Atkinson, Universit?at Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Thomas Bauer, Daimler AG, Group Research and Advanced Engineering, Germany
Andrew Berry, Deontik, Australia
Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Watson, USA
Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
Sanjay Chaudhary, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA
Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University, USA
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Maja Pesic, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle, Universit?at Ulm, Germany
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands