[agents] KiBP 2012 - Call for Participation and Final Program

Mon Jun 11 05:11:34 EDT 2012

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KiBP 2012 - Call for Participation and Final Program

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First International Workshop on Knowledge-intensive Business Processes

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~kibp2012/

15 June 2012 Rome, Italy

Co-located with: KR 2012, DL 2012, NMR 2012, AI*IA 2012 and CILC 2012

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FINAL PROGRAM of KiBP 2012

9:15-9:30 -- Welcome & Workshop Overview

9:30-10:30 -- Keynote Talk by Marlon Dumas : Integrated Data and Process Management: Finally? 

10:30-11:00 -- Automatic Detection of Business Process Interference (Invited Paper)

Nick van Beest, Eirini Kaldeli, Pavel Bulanov, Hans Wortmann and Alexander Lazovik

11:00-11:30 -- Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 -- Paper Session I

- Knowledge-intensive Processes: An Overview of Contemporary Approaches

  Claudio Di Ciccio, Andrea Marrella and Alessandro Russo

- A knowledge-based approach to the configuration of business process model abstractions

  Shamila Mafazi, Wolfgang Mayer, Georg Grossmann and Markus Stumptner

12:30-14:00 -- Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 -- Keynote Talk by Yves Lespérance : A Logic-Based Approach to Business Processes Customization

15:00-16:00 -- Paper Session II

- Modular Representation of a Business Process Planner

  Shahab Tasharrofi and Eugenia Ternovska

- Business Processes Verification with Temporal Answer Set Programming

  Laura Giordano, Alberto Martelli, Matteo Spiotta and Daniele Theseider Dupre'

16:00-16:30 -- Coffee Break

16:30-17:00 -- Paper Session III

- Semantically-Governed Data-Aware Processes

  Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Marco Montali and Ario Santoso 

17:00-18:00 -- Closing Panel

- Topic : Knowledge-intensive processes: new ideas or "old wine in new bottles"?

- Moderator : Massimo Mecella

- Participants : Giuseppe De Giacomo, Marlon Dumas, Yves Lespérance, Alexander Lazovik

18:00-18:15 -- Concluding Remarks

20:00 -- Social Dinner   

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REGISTRATION FEES

  - Regular : 120 €

  - Joint with KR 2012 (or DL 2012, or NMR 2012) : 90 €

On-site registration can be done in the days 7 - 14 June 2012 at the main conference registration desk of KR in the conference rooms 

of Sapienza, Università di Roma, Via Caserta 6, 00161 Rome, Italy and the workshop day (15 June 2012) at the registration desk of the workshop in Room A5 - 

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti", Via Ludovico Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy. 

On-site registration can be done cash or with all major credit cards.

Previous registration at KR-12 (or at Dl-12, or at NMR-12) entitles a reduction of 30 Euros. Notice that to get the reduced rate, it is necessary to be registered to KR-12 (or to DL-12, or to NMR-12) before registration to KiBP 2012. KiBP 2012 registration fee includes the lunch for the workshop day, coffee breaks and a social event. Additional tickets for the social event can be purchased directly on-site.

For enquiries regarding registration (e.g., to have invitation letters for VISA purposes), send an email to mecella at dis.uniroma1.it.

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OVERVIEW

Nowadays, Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) are widely used in all human activities, ranging from classical ones (management of supply chain, 

postal tracking delivery etc.) to very dynamic ones (health-care, emergency management, etc.). Every aspect of a business process involves a 

certain amount of knowledge, that can depend both on the complexity of the domain of interest and on the modeling language used to represent 

the process itself. Some processes behave in a way that is well understood, predictable and repeatable: the tasks are discrete and the control 

flow is straightforward. Recent discussions illustrate the increasing demand in the solutions for knowledge-intensive processes. 

A knowledge-intensive process is one in which the people/agents performing such process are involved in a fair degree of uncertainty. This is 

due to the high number of tasks to be represented and to their unpredictable nature, or to a difficulty to model the whole knowledge of the 

domain of interest at design time. In realistic environments, for example, actors lack important knowledge at execution time or this knowledge 

can become obsolete during the process progressing. Even if each actor (at some point) has a perfect knowledge of the world, it could not be 

certain of its beliefs at later time points, since tasks by other actors may change the world without those changes being perceived. 

Typically, a knowledge-intensive process can not be modeled sufficiently by classical, static process models and workflows. There is still a 

lack of maturity in some respect, i.e., a lack of a semantic associated to the models or an easy way to reason about such semantic.

The main focus of this workshop is to discuss about how the use of techniques that came from different fields, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 

Knowledge Representation (KR), Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Computing (SOC), etc., can be used jointly for improving 

the modeling and the enactment phase of a knowledge-intensive process. The purpose is to devise interesting approaches that can still achieve 

the goals of understanding, visibility and control of these emergent processes.

The KiBP workshop is focused on the design, evaluation and comparison of process improvement techniques, tools and methods, in which aspects 

of knowledge representation, reasoning, creation, organization, retrieval, transfer, refinement, reuse, revision, and feedback play a key role. 

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CONTACTS FOR KiBP 2012

PC Chairs

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- Massimo Mecella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)

  e-mail : mecella at dis.uniroma1.it

- Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

  e-mail : arthur at yawlfoundation.org

- Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University, Australia)

  e-mail : sebastian.sardina at rmit.edu.au

Proceedings Chair

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- Andrea Marrella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)

  e-mail : marrella at dis.uniroma1.it

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