PM Spam Attack

Dear Board Members,

Twice this month the BPM Research Forum was attacked by spammers that used the PM system to flood all board members with messages. The perpetrators have been deleted, their IP addresses banned, and a patch in the IPB software has been installed to disable the PM system for users with a low post count. Once a member reaches 7 moderator-reviewed posts they will be promoted to the level of Senior Member and will be allowed to use the PM system again. Apologies for the inconvenience, and I hope these measures make the board a more informative place for all of us.

Best regards

Michael

CfP: Special Issue on Collaborative Business Processes

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Collaborative Business Processes
Information System Frontiers (ISF)

http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISF...forthcoming.htm

Recent years have seen the trend of business globalisation which urgently requires dynamical collaboration among organisations. The business processes of different organisations need to be integrated seamlessly to adapt the continuously changing business conditions and to stay competitive in the global market. Though current business process technologies have achieved a certain level, there is still a large room between the current supports and the requirements from real collaboration scenarios. Especially in a loosely coupled collaboration environment, many non-functional yet crucial aspects, such as privacy and security, reliability and flexibility, scalability and agility, process validation, QoS guarantees, etc., are with a great lack of sufficient supports. This gap in turn obstructs the further advancement and wider application of business process technologies. Therefore, more academic research, facilitating infrastructure, protocols and standards are being expected to!
shift current business process management for supporting collaborative business processes.

Topic Scope
-------------------
The scope of this special issue falls in collaborative business process management field. The special issue will cover the scope of research relevant to collaborative business processes, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Contracting for business collaboration
* Process discovery in business collaboration
* Process composition in business collaboration
* Service matching in business collaboration
* Change management in business collaboration
* Process evolvement in business collaboration
* Process migration in business collaboration
* Access control in business collaboration
* Privacy and confidentiality management in business collaboration
* Autonomy in business collaboration
* Authorisation management in business collaboration
* Collaborative business process modelling
* Engines for collaborative business processes
* Verification and validation of collaborative business process models
* Performance assessment on collaborative business processes
* Monitoring and tracking over collaborative business processes
* Architectures and infrastructures for collaborative business processes
* Protocols for collaborative business processes
* Choreography and orchestration in collaborative business processes
* Collaborative business processes in Web service environment
* Collaborative business processes in Grid or P2P environment
* Case studies of collaborative business processes
* Collaborative business process applications, such as supply chain and virtual organisation alliance
* Other facilitating technologies for collaborative business process

Important Dates
-------------------
1 October 2007 Deadline for submissions to the special issue
30 January 2008 Notification of acceptance
28 February 2008 Deadline for camera-ready papers
Middle or late 2008 Publication

Submission Instructions
-------------------
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF format no later than October 1, 2007 to Xiaohui Zhao at: xzhao@ict.swin.edu.au. Manuscripts should be within 25 pages long, double space, including references. More information for manuscript style can be found at Springer’s website (www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-170-70-35673075-0,00.html). Revised submissions of the works appear in the workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007, www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/cbp2007) will be automatically considered for this special issue. All other manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

Guest Editors
-------------------
Assoc.Prof. Chengfei Liu
cliu@ict.swin.edu.au
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Prof. Qing Li
itqli@cityu.edu.hk
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong, China

Xiaohui Zhao
xzhao@ict.swin.edu.au
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Welcome, SIGPAM members

The Association for Information Systems' Special Interest Group on Process Automation and Management (sig|pam) has relaunched their website and joined the growing list of communities that is using this discussion forum. Welcome!

CfP: EMISA Journal - Special Issue on Process Modeling

Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - An International Journal
Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Process Modeling"

Guest Editors:

Michael Rosemann
Queensland University of Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
Business Process Management Cluster
126 Margaret Street
Brisbane Qld 4000, Australia
m.rosemann@qut.edu.au


Michael zur Muehlen
Stevens Institute of Technology
Howe School of Technology Management
Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation
Castle Point on the Hudson
Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
michael.zurmuehlen@stevens.edu

Description of Special Issue

Process modeling is increasingly accepted across organizations of all sizes and industries. It is driven by a wide variety of objectives covering classical process documentation and improvement, process compliance requirements and the need to capture process requirements as part of software development projects, among others. The emerging area of service-oriented architecture accelerates the demand for executable process models that facilitate the orchestration and choreography of services.


The quick uptake of process modeling leads to entirely new challenges, including managing very large process model landscapes, managing process variants in global projects, process modeling governance, model maintenance management and an overall demand for more comprehensive process modeling methodologies.
To date, academic research has traditionally focused on syntactical aspects of process modeling. The main deliverables so far have been an sizable set of process modeling techniques, corresponding modeling tools, meta models and notations.
This Special Issue is dedicated to capturing the current-state-of-the art in the area on process modeling with a focus on the emerging challenges of process modeling. We strongly encourage submissions that go beyond ‘yet another modeling technique’.


It is expected that the submissions are based on sound theoretical, conceptual-analytical and, where appropriate, empirical methods.


Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Process modeling paradigms
• Process model architectures
• Process modeling methodologies
• Collaborative (open) process modeling
• Process modeling guidelines
• Process model lifecycle and maintenance management
• Process model variant management
• Process model version and release cycle management
• Process model quality management
• Process modeling governance
• Process modeling in the large
• Process modeling for compliance management
• Process modeling within enterprise architectures
• Reference process models and model patterns
• Process modeling standards
• Philosophical foundations of process modeling
• Process modeling notations and creative process visualizations
• Comparison of process models, modeling techniques, notations, tools
• User acceptance of process modeling
• Critical success factors and measures of process modeling
• Process and service modeling
• Process model-driven development

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 31 January 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2008
Camera-ready papers deadline: 1 June 2008
Publication: September 2008


The review process is double blind and will involve the associate editors of this journal as reviewers. Guidelines for authors, including a Word template, are available on the journal’s web page (http://www.wi-inf.uni-duisburg-essen.de/MobisPortal, select ‘Journal’).

About the Journal

The Journal Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures is the official journal of the Special Interest Group on Modelling Business Information Systems within the German Informatics Society (GI SIG-MoBIS). SIG-MobIS provides a forum to foster the exchange on theoretical and prac¬tical aspects of enterprise models. The journal is dedicated to promote the study and application of methods and languages for enterprise mod¬elling - bridging the gap between theoretical foundations and real world requirements. While most Information Systems journals stress empirical methods, Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures is intend¬ed to represent an alternative for those who prefer a design-oriented ap¬proach. It is not only aimed at researchers and students in Computer Science and Information Systems, but also at information systems pro¬fessionals in industry, commerce and public administration who are in¬terested in innovative concepts.


Editor in Chief


Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen

Associate Editors


Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim
Jörg Becker, University of Münster
Martin Bertram, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt
Jörg Desel, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Werner Esswein, Dresden University of Technology
Martin Glinz, University of Zürich
Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Oldenburg
Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney
Stefan Jablonski, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University
Thomas Kühne, Darmstadt University of Technology
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna
Roland Kaschek, Massey University
Gerhard Knolmayer, University of Bern
John Krogstie, University of Trondheim
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt
Klaus-Walter Müller, BearingPoint GmbH, München
Markus Nüttgens, University of Hamburg
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe
Erich Ortner, Darmstadt University of Technology
Oscar Pastor López, Universidad Politècnica de València
Erik Proper, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Michael Rebstock, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology
Matti Rossi, Helsinki Business School
Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg
Friedrich Steimann, University of Hagen
Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, University of Jyväskylä
Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen
Heinz Züllighoven, University of Hamburg

BPM 2007, September 25-27, Brisbane, Australia

::::::::: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :::::::::

BPM 2007
5th International Conference on Business Process Management
Brisbane, Australia, 25-27 September 2007

General Information: http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/
Program: http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/program/
Registration: http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/registration/
List of Accepted Papers: http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/program/papers/

BPM 2007 is the fifth in a conference series that provides the leading global forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of Business Process Management. BPM 2007 will be held from 24-28 September 2007 in Brisbane, Australia and is organised by the Business Process Management Research Group, Faculty of Information Technology of the Queensland University of Technology.

The academic program will follow the highest academic standards and the acceptance rate has been 15%. Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the most prestigous researchers in all areas of Business Process Management. In 2007, we will complement the strong academic program with a series of co-located events including the "4th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods", the "1st International Workshop on Managing Business Processes in the Government" and the "1st International Workshop on BPM Governance", six BPM-related workshops, a tutorial on BPM standards, panel discussions and an industry-only one-day event on Business Process Management. The latter one will be targeted towards the world's leading BPM practitioners.

BPM 2007 will be held in Brisbane, Australia. The event will be conducted at Gardens Point Campus of QUT. The campus is located in the Central Business District of Brisbane, the fastest growing town in Australia. With 1.7 million people, Brisbane offers all the infrastructure and facilities of a global hub for technology and tourism.

Workshops

The following workshops will all take place on Monday, 24 September 2007, to complement the BPM 2007 Conference.

* 3rd International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence
* 3rd International Workshop on Business Process Design
* 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes
* 1st International Workshop on Process-oriented Systems in Healthcare
* 10th International Workshop on Reference Modeling
* 2nd International Workshop on Semantics in Web Services and Business Processes

Co-Located Events

The following events will be co-located with BPM 2007:

* 4th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM 2007)
* 1st International Workshop on Management of Business Processes in Government (BPMGOV 2007)
* 1st International Workshop on BPM Governance (WoGo 2007)