[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