[agents] CFP - KiBP 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge-intensive Business Processes

[Andrea Marrella]

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2nd International Workshop on Knowledge-intensive Business Processes (KiBP
2013)

WWW: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~kibp/2013/index.html

E-Mail: kibp2013 at dis.uniroma1.it

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in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Service
Oriented Computing & Applications (SOCA 2013)

 

Important Dates 

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Submission of Papers:  July 31, 2013

Notification:          October 5, 2013

Final Version Due:     October 15, 2013

Workshop Date:         December 16-18, 2013

 

All deadlines refer to 11:59 P.M. Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours).

 

Location

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Kauai - Hawaii - U.S.A. 

 

Call for Papers

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Nowadays, Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) are widely used in all
human activities, from classical ones (management of supply chain, 

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

involves a certain amount of knowledge, depending on several factors that
range from the complexity of the domain of interest to the background and 

expertise of process participants.

 

Typically, knowledge-intensive processes are often only slightly structured
and may not be completely captured by common business process 

models. Variations or divergence from structured, pre-defined reference
models are common, due to autonomous user decisions and to 

unpredictable, emergent events and contextual changes that make the
structure of the process significantly less rigid. 

The explicit flow of control may be driven and implicitly determined by the
user's decision making or by contextual conditions, 

and it may be coupled with undesigned and unforeseen alternative activities
and process fragments, dynamically determined at run-time. 

In the worst case, there is no pre-defined view of the knowledge-intensive
process, and tasks are mainly discovered 

as the process unfolds.

 

In recent years, the increasing demand in effective solutions for
knowledge-intensive processes has been reflected in the arising of 

various approaches (such as declarative and object-centric processes,
artifact-centric systems, and adaptive case management) that emphasize 

how the integration of rules, data, control flow and user decisions may
support the specification, analysis and enactment of flexible, 

knowledge-intensive business processes. From the foundational and practical
viewpoint, the purpose of integrating such aspects with traditional 

business process management is a challenging, still largely open issue,
which requires to reconsider the role of each process component together
with the 

ways it interacts with the other components, and ultimately to reshape the
entire process life-cycle. 

 

The main focus of this workshop is to discuss novel and ongoing approaches,
techniques and tools whose distinctive feature relies in the 

interplay between data, users and control flow aspects, to the aim of
defining and understanding the knowledge dimension for business processes. 

We invite researchers from the fields of service-oriented computing,
business process management, data management, artificial intelligence, 

knowledge representation and management to submit papers on the following
aspects (not exclusive): 

 

- Modeling languages, notations and methods for knowledge representation and
management in business processes and services 

- Variability and adaptability of business process models for
knowledge-intensive tasks through automatic techniques 

- Resource management for knowledge-intensive business process modeling and
support

- User-oriented aspects of knowledge-intensive business processes and
services 

- Declarative approaches for knowledge-intensive business processes 

- Verification, analysis and validation of knowledge-intensive business
processes and services 

- Dynamic configuration; modeling by knowledge reuse 

- Run-time verification and monitoring 

- Knowledge-intensive business process/service support architectures and
platforms 

- Machine learning for business process mining and monitoring 

- Artifact-centric business processes 

- Adaptive Case Management 

- Object-aware approaches for business process management 

- Case studies, empirical evaluations and experimentations 

 

Keynote Speaker

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Prof. Massimo Mecella, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy.

 

Format of the Workshop

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The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers and an
additional keynote talk. 

Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three
members of the program committee. 

All accepted papers will be published, potentially in a revised form, as
part of the SOCA proceedings, 

which will be included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author for
each accepted paper should register to 

the workshop and attend it so as to present the paper.

 

Paper Submission

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of
the areas listed in the Call of Papers. 

Two kinds of submissions are possible :

 

**Research papers** These papers are devoted to research in an advanced
stage, to completely new research positions, and approaches in an early
stage. 

We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit their papers to present
their valuable ideas, get feedback on their work and stimulate discussions 

and collaborations among colleagues.

 

**Experience reports** Experience reports are meant to present an activity
that has been completed (or is being completed) in the context of a 

real-life organization. The work should be driven by a practical need, and
report on the identification or analysis of existing problems, on the 

design/implementation of solutions, or on the assessment/evaluation of
existing solutions. Work carried out with a pure research flavor does not 

fall in this category, and should be submitted in the form of a research
paper.

 

For both research papers and experience reports, the length of submitted
work must not exceed 5 pages (including text, figures and references) in 

the IEEE format. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column
format. 

Only papers in English will be accepted. Information about the IEEE format
can be found at:

 

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

 

The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the
covered topics (three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be
indicated at 

the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of workshop's topics.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system using the
following URL: 

 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kibp2013

 

Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not conforming to the
IEEE format or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop, will be
rejected without 

review. In order to submit your paper, you will first need to register into
the system, if you are not registered already. You may submit an abstract
first and 

upload the actual paper at a later time (this is in fact strongly
recommended). Furthermore, you may revise your submission any number of
times before the 

deadline. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you
may have. 

 

PC Chairs

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Andrea Marrella (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy) 

Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) 

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Vienna, Austria) 

 

Proceedings Chair

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Alessandro Russo (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy) 

 

Program Committee

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Marco Aiello - University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Artur Caetano - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Florian Daniel - University of Trento, Italy

Massimiliano de Leoni - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Riccardo De Masellis - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Claudio Di Ciccio - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Christoph Dorn - Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Walid Fdhila - University of Vienna, Austria

Marcello La Rosa - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Yves Lespérance - York University, Toronto, Canada

Sotirios Liaskos - York University, Toronto, Canada

Vera Künzle - University of Ulm, Germany

Fabrizio Maria Maggi - University of Tartu, Estonia

Fabio Patrizi - Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy

Manfred Reichert - University of Ulm, Germany

Hajo A. Reijers - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Rainer Schmidt - University of Aalen, Germany

Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel

Roman Vaculin - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.

Nick van Beest - University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Mathias Weske - Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany