[hpc-announce] (Deadline Extended to 31 July) Call for Paper: 2nd International Workshop on Cloud and Context for Business Process Management (in Conjunction with SKG2014)

Mon Jul 14 11:28:55 CDT 2014

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SKG2014 Workshop on Cloud and Context for Business Process Management (CCBPM’14). **Selected best workshop papers will be invited to submit to the special issues of the following SCI-indexed well-known international journals after extension: Future Generation Computer Systems; Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.** 
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2nd International Workshop on Cloud and Context for Business Process Management
held with SKG-2014 Conference, Beijing, China, August 25-29, 2014
http://grid.lzu.edu.cn/psrl/ccbpm14/ 

Goals
The goal of the workshop is to promote the role of cloud computing and context in business process management (BPM) by discussing (1) what the cloud computing and context community can bring to BPM community, including business and scientific workflow management; and (2) what are the challenges of BPM and workflow system that BPM community think cloud computing and context (cloud/context-based, cloud/context-aware, etc.) may solve. We are looking for extension of business processes and workflows like cloud/context-based BPM and workflow, and if possible, contextualized cloud BPM and workflow systems.  The past CCBPM workshop (CBPM’13, October 28th, 2013, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France, http://grid.lzu.edu.cn/psrl/cbpm) has achieved significant attentions from the world-wide researchers working in different aspects of context, BPM, cloud computing, etc.

Technical issues addressed
BPM has been referred to as a "holistic management" approach to aligning an organization's business processes with the needs of users. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. However, the challenge for a large use of business process is the failure in addressing both the dynamic execution environment (i.e. grid and cloud) and the elastic requirement of users (i.e., logic of use). Two lines of research emerge to address this problem. Upstream, researchers try to make explicit the contextualization process in designing flexible and elastic business process for process optimization and reuse. Downstream, new technology such as cloud computing could bring a promising orchestration of business process but suppose a revision of BPM architecture. 
The technical issues to be addressed are: Where context may intervene for operationalizing business process? What must be the impact of cloud computing and context in the design and execution of business process? What would be a context-aware BPM and a cloud based BPM/Workflow Systems? What kinds of context constraints and middleware should be integrated with the business process? Recognizing the interdisciplinary nature of BPM, the workshop also encourages submissions that embrace other disciplines such as Workflow Management, Information Systems and IT Management, Data and Knowledge Management, Web/Software Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Social Computing, Big Data, etc. The key criteria for acceptance are excellence and answering challenges specific to the field of context for BPM and especially in the cloud computing paradigm.

The workshop solicits original papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
?    Cloud and Context based BPM/workflow: concepts and theory, e.g.
?    Context-centric flexibility, adaptability and evolution in BPM
?    Cloud-based BPM and Workflow as a Service
?    Knowledge and reasoning representation for business process
?    Security, privacy and trust in Cloud/Context-based BPM
?    Other socio-technical aspects of BPM/workflow in the Cloud
?    Context-aware business process/workflow, e.g.
?    Context for Mobile and Ubiquitous applications
?    Context-aware BPM for Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting 
?    Context-aware recommendation process 
?    Context for dynamic selection of web services
?    Cloud and Context-based workflows and applications, e.g.
?    Business and scientific workflows in the cloud
?    Decision support systems for cloud-based BPM
?    People-/knowledge-intensive process
?    Crowdsourcing and process based on social networks
?    Cloud and Context based workflow design, execution and scheduling, e.g.
?    Context and Quality-of-Service constraints for workflow design
?    Workflow verification and generation with context and QoS constraints
?    Load balancing and scheduling of cloud workflows
?    Cloud/Context-based process mining

Submissions
Workshop submission will be electronic, in pdf format only. Submitted papers must not exceed 8 pages and should conform to Two-Column IEEE Format (see below). Submissions should include authors’ names and affiliation and full references. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and the main conference, and present the contribution at the workshop in order to be published in the workshop proceedings. Detailed formatting and submissions instructions, as well as LaTeX and Word templates, can be accessed through Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Paper submission will be handled using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccbpm2014

Workshop proceedings
The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the SKG 2014 workshop proceedings published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed). More information: http://www.knowledgegrid.net/skg2014/Publication.html  
**Selected best workshop papers will be invited to submit to the special issues of the following SCI-indexed well-known international journals after extension: Future Generation Computer Systems; Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.** 

Workshop format
The general organization of the workshop is the following. First a tutorial will introduce BPM and cloud-computing domains and their challenges. Second, participants will present their position statement. Third, a panel discussion will focus on proposals of the context community for the BPM community under the cloud computing paradigm. 

Review process
Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A review form will direct reviewers to evaluate submissions for appropriateness, technical strength, originality, presentation, and overall evaluation, as well as recording the reviewer’s confidence in the topic. Each category will be rated on a scale from 1 to 5. Furthermore, we will emphasise that reviewers must provide constructive notes and remarks to help contributors to improve their current and future submissions.

Important Dates
?    July 31, 2014 - Submission Deadline (Extended, FIRM)
?    August 15, 2014 - Notification of workshop paper acceptance
?    September 15, 2014 - Camera-ready submission (after conference publication)
?    August 26, 2014 - Workshop sessions

Workshop History
?    1st International Workshop on Context for Business Process Management (CBPM’13, with CONTEXT-2013), October 28th, 2013, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France, http://grid.lzu.edu.cn/psrl/cbpm 

Organization
General Chairs

      Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
      Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Program Chairs
Xiao Liu, East China Normal University, China, xliu at sei.ecnu.edu.cn
Jin Liu, Wuhan University, China, mailjinliu at yahoo.com 
Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China, fanxiaoliang at lzu.edu.cn

Steering Committee
Patrick Brézillon, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Lian Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
Yun Yang, Swinburne Unviersity of Technology, Australia
Jean-Charles Pomerol,University Pierre and Marie Curie,France
Ruisheng Zhang, Lanzhou University, China
Frederic Magoules, Ecole Centrale Paris, France

Publicity Chair
Haiwu He, ENS Lyon/INRIA, France
Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China 

Publication Chair
Fang Dong, Southeast University, China
Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

Program Committee
Liliana Ardissono, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Ludger van Elst,German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Marc Frincu, University of Strasbourg, France
Paula Ventura Martins, University of Algarve, Portugal
Matthias Wieland, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Patrick Brézillon, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Marielba Zacarias, University of Algarve, Portugal
Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Flavia Santoro, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Xiao Liu, East China Normal University, China
Monica Anastassiu, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brail
Jin Liu, Wuhan University, China
Haiwu He, ENS Lyon/INRIA, France
Yain-Whar Si, University of Macau, China
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Dong Yuan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA
Fang Dong, Southeast University, China
Christian Janiesch,Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China
Ming Mao, University of Virginia, USA
Gaofeng Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
John Hegarty, IPAG Paris, France
Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China
Jürgen Hahn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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