[agents] EDOC WGBP workshop - submission deadline extended to May 2nd, 2010

[Anna Perini]

Paper submission due (extended!!!!): 2 May 2010
Further information at http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/wgbp2010 or in the  
CFP below.


* We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once.
* PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. Many  
thanks!


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                     WGBP 2010 - Call for Papers

International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering  
(WGBP 2010)
at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (The Enterprise  
Computing Conference)

Vitória/ES – Brazil
25-29 October 2010

Papers submission deadline: 17 April 2010
Web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/wgbp2010

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- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP -
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Competitive businesses and an ever changing market have demanded that  
current organizations constantly evolve.
To achieve that, it becomes necessary to develop a deep understanding  
of the organizational practices and
systems. This motivates an increasing interest in business processes  
engineering. Such interest has the benefit
to allow a deep understanding of the processes that generate the main  
products and services offered by the
organization. This may lead to: a) enhance these processes to obtain  
higher quality both in products and
services; b) develop information systems which are more in line with  
the current processes, so that such
systems more appropriately satisfy user requirements; and c) provide  
documentation of the applied practices,
eading to more efficient knowledge management, which enables the  
integration of newcomers within the
organization.

However, to guarantee that business process engineering is applied to  
its full potential, keeping the
organization competitive, it is necessary to understand how these  
processes achieve the local and strategic
goals of the organization. This may guide the decision regarding which  
activities and processes should be the
priorities of that particular organization.

Goal modeling has gained a lot of attention in the past few years,  
especially in the field of Requirements
Engineering. In this context, goals are applied as a natural modeling  
construct to capture the requirements
of a system to-be. Within the Business Process Engineering community,  
some works have included the concept of
goal as modeling primitive, acknowledging its importance to motivate  
processes that underlie organizations.
However, up to very recently, such goal models have remained  
peripheral and often ignored in current business
process engineering practices.

The International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering  
(WGBP 2010) is the first of what we hope

  to be many events that bring together researchers and practitioners  
in the areas of goals and business process
engineering to discuss how these two complementary areas may be  
integrated. This way, we hope to contribute to
the development of each of these areas, as well as to create a forum  
where works that combine them may be
published and discussed.


- TOPICS -
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The workshop encourages submissions on the relation of Goals and  
Business Process Engineering with the following
topics, but not limited to:
• Methodologies for Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Goal-based Organizational Modeling
• Enterprise Architectures
• Viewpoint Alignment in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Ontologies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Semantics in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Service-oriented architectures in Goal-based Business Process  
Engineering
• Simulations of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Monitoring of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Formal Description, Verification and Validation in Goal-based  
Business Process Engineering
• Reengineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Requirements Engineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Security issues in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Quality of service in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Norms and Regulations in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Autonomic Systems in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Product Line in Goal-based Business Process Engineering

• Industrial Case Studies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering


- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -
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This workshop accepts two kinds of papers: short papers (up to 4 pages  
long) and full papers (up to 8 pages long).
All submissions to workshops must comply with the IEEE Computer  
Society conference proceedings format guidelines
(http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the  
latest template as there have been updates
recently). Submissions must be in English and must be made using  
EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgbp2010).

Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society  
Press and will be accessible through IEEE
Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. In order to have  
the paper published, at least one author
of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole  
EDOC 2010 conference and attend the workshop
to present the paper. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper  
from distribution after the conference (e.g.,
removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international  
program committee. Reviews are based on
originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation  (all  
paper sections are considered for review, not
only an extended abstract).


- IMPORTANT DATES -
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Paper submission due (extended!!!!): 2 May 2010
Paper notification: 4 June 2010
Paper camera-ready paper due: 16 June 2010
Workshop held: 25th or 26th October 2010 (in one of the two first days  
of EDOC’10)


- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -
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Renata S.S. Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br
Anna Perini (FBK-IRST Trento, Italy), perini at fbk.eu
Jaelson Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), jbc at cin.ufpe.br


- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -
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Alberto Siena (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Angelo Susi (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Anthony Finkelstein (UCL, UK)
Carson Woo (UBC, Canada)
Claudia Cappelli (NP2TEC/UNIRIO, Brazil)
Collete Rolland (Univ. Paris I Panthéon-Sourbonne, France)
Daniel Amyot (Univ. Ottawa, Canada)
Dimitris Karagiannis (Univ. Wien, Austria)
Eric Yu (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Fernanda Baião (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Fernanda Alencar (UFPE, Brazil)
Gerd Wagner (Cottbus Univ. Technology, Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
João Paulo A. Almeida (UFES, Brazil)
John Mylopolous (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Jolita Ralyte (Univ. Geneva, Switzerland)
Julio Leite (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua, China)
Lucineia Heloísa Thom (UFRGS, Brazil)
Luiz Olavo Bonino (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Manfred Reichert (Ulm Univ., Germany)
Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo (IC/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Oscar Pastor (UPV, Spain)
Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Xavier Franch (UPC, Spain)
Yiyun Yu (Open Univ., UK)
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