MDE4BPM 2008

MDE4BPM08

1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for Business Process Management

1 September 2008, at BPM2008, Milan, Italy

Paper Submission Deadline: 23 May 2008

http://www.inf.unisi.ch/mde4bpm08/

-- CALL FOR PAPERS --

An improved alignment of the IT infrastructure of an enterprise with its business needs and requirements is a trend that has dominated and driven innovations in information technology over the past couple of years. Model-driven engineering techniques are used to translate business needs directly into IT solutions. A special area of model-driven engineering, often denoted as business-driven development, focuses on generating SOA- based IT solutions from business process models.

The goal of the MDE4BPM workshop is to establish a meeting point for closer collaboration and exchange between the BPM and the MDE communities. It complements the main BPM2008 conference program by focusing on research problems that arise when the model-driven methodology is applied to automate the whole lifecycle of business process modeling artifacts. BPM, as a specific application, provides many unique challenges and opportunities for advancing the state of the art in MDE research. Similarly, next generation BPM languages and tools can greatly benefit from the MDE concepts and methodologies. In order to develop a better understanding between the two communities, submissions relating theory and practice of MDE for BPM are particularly welcome.

Topics of Interest

The MDE4BPM 2008 program committee seeks original, high quality papers related to the following:

-	Applications of MDE+BPM techniques and methodologies -	Business Driven Development -	Business Process Model Transformation, Abstraction and Refinement -	Change Detection and Merging for Process Models -	Code Generation Techniques for Business Process Model Execution -	Compilation of Business Process Models -	Execution Monitoring of Generated Process Models -	Governance of Process-centric Software Projects -	High-level Business Process Monitoring and Analysis -	Integration of process models with other modeling artifacts -	Life cycle Management of Business Process Models -	Model-Driven Business Process Management Systems -	Optimization of Compiled Business Processes -	Pattern-based Editing and Refactoring of Business Process Models -	Synchronization of Models across different Abstraction Levels -	Tools and Environments supporting the MDE Lifecycle of Business Processes

Workshop Format and Proceedings

In addition to the opening keynote, the workshop will feature selected regular papers (up to 12 pages in Springer LNBIP format) which will be published in post-workshop proceedings by Springer. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The best workshop paper will be selected to be included in a special issue of the "Software Process Improvement and Practice" Journal.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 23 May 2008 Acceptance Notification:  27 June 2008 Camera ready:             11 July 2008 MDE4BPM Workshop:          1 September 2008

Paper Submission

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mde4bpm08

Organization

Program Chairs

Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Program Committee

Alistair Barros, SAP, Australia Steen Brahe, Danske Bank, Denmark Christoph Bussler, MercedSystems, Inc, USA Monique Calisti, Whitestein, Switzerland Jorge Cardoso, Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Roy Gronmo, University of Oslo, Norway Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Jochen K�ster, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Jan Mendling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany

Contact Information

For more information and inquiries about the workshop, please contact cesare.pautasso at computer.org This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP