The BPSC conference accepts original research and industry experience papers. The authors of papers that could not be accepted as full papers may be invited to re-submit their work as a position paper. Full papers should not exceed 12 pages. A position paper presents preliminary research findings and/or new research challenges and/or a research survey and/or arguable opinions based on research or pragmatic evidence. Position papers should not exceed 8 pages and will be classified as short papers, posters, or demo papers.
Accepted BPSC papers will be published in the proceedings with an ISBN number as Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Following the conference, the authors of selected research papers may be asked to consider the conference findings and prepare improved and/or extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a reputable journal. BPSC 2010 invites workshop proposals on any themes listed in the “Topics of Interest”. Workshops are intended to serve as intensive collaborative and highly interactive meetings.
The main motivation for the BPSC conferences is to report research and industry solutions for modern business process automation that is (most likely) based on services computing. The BPSC conferences look at process management as a new paradigm with semantics and meta-models radically different from applications that merely implement business processes. The novelty aspects include such issues as:
• embracing all processes in business organizations,
• separating business process logic from application control logic,
• meta-level management of business process lifecycle,
• direct visibility of business processes to facilitate their comprehension,
• predictable evolution of business processes with clearly known implications on existing applications,
• reduction in software and system complexity based on process independence and architectural frameworks for business process management initiatives,
• combining Semantic Web technology and BPM.
Topics of interest include theoretical and/or empirical contributions related to business process and services computing. Although the process-centric paradigm, in its current manifestation, benefits greatly from web services and SOA, the contributions can potentially address the BPM at an abstraction level above services, SOA or any other implementation toolset. However, and consistently with the fact that business processes are a layer on top of the SOA, the contributions concentrating on the services computing should made themselves relevant to the BPM in one form or another. Below is (unavoidably incomplete) list of topics:
• The Process-Centric Computing Paradigm
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)
• Business Process Modeling Languages
• Business Process Execution Languages
• Business Process Reengineering (in the BPM context)
• Document Management and Workflow Solutions (in the BPM context)
• Enterprise Integration and E-Business Interoperability (in the BPM context)
• Web Services and SOA (in the BPM context)
• Process-Application Independence
• Enterprise vs. B2B Process Management
• BPM for Processes Spanning Applications, Execution Platforms, and Organizations
• BPM as a Mechanism for Communicating Business Requirements
• BPM as a Mechanism for Defining All Processes – Automated and Manual
• System Complexity and Adaptiveness in BPM Initiatives
• Organizational Agility and Responsiveness Through BPM Initiatives
• Business Value in BPM Initiatives
• Semantics for Business Processes
• Semantic Web Services (SWS) and Business Processes
• Non-Functional Properties of Business Processes
• Composition of SWS in the BPMS
• Business Process Mining
• Modeling in Web x.0
• Security Aspects of BPM and BPMS
BPSC 2010 invites workshop proposals. Workshops are intended to serve as intensive collaborative and highly interactive meetings. BPSC provides an opportunity for organizing workshops on any of the themes listed in the “Topics of Interest” or any cross-section of these themes.
Accepted BPSC workshops’ papers will be published, subject to a positive recommendation by the BPSC Workshops Chair, in the proceedings with an ISBN number as GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI).
The conference will be held in conjunction with INFORMATIK 2010, Service Science—New Perspectives for Computer Science. Registration to BPSC allows free access to the INFORMATIK 2010 conference.