DDBP 2010 - Third International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes

in conjunction with the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010)

"The Enterprise Computing Conference"

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil

http://edocconference.org

Please have a look at the DDBP website for further details.

FINAL PROGRAM (updated on 13th October 2010)

Monday, 25th October 2010

14:00-15:00
Invited Talk
João Paulo A. Almeida
Challenges in Dynamic Business Process Change

15:00-15:30
Michael Igler, Paulo Moura, Michael Zeising and Stefan Jablonski
ESProNa: Constraint-Based Declarative Business Process Modeling

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:30
Tim Pidun and Carsten Felden
An overview of Models for Business Process Analysis - Beyond Performance Measurement with KPIs

16:30-17:00
Andrej Danko
Formalization of Functional Aspects in Business Software Globalization

17:00-17:30
Bas Steen, Luís Ferreira Pires and Maria-Eugenia Iacob
Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules

SCOPE

Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, dynamic business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation: design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations. Central to the field of dynamic business processes is the notion of requirement, which make dynamic business process particularly suited to a declarative approach to their modelling and design.

The declarative approach to dynamic business processes raises a number of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking compliance or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements. Dynamic and declarative business processes have proved their use in a wide number of domains, and are expected to impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and tandardization efforts.

The theme of the 3rd International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes is "On Supporting Business Process Evolution". The evolution of processes and their underlying software systems becomes more and more an important and interesting topic in business process management. Since the life time of software systems frequently spans many years, business processes modelled on top of systems cannot be assumed to remain fixed, and migration between different versions is essential. As a consequence, modelling and management techniques developed in the context of ad-hoc, short-term composition of services and their processes lack the necessary constructs to concisely express the gradual evolution of processes and software systems and new dynamic and/or declarative approaches in this context are required.

This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems, case studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of concrete
examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work in progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work on formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are also sought-after.

TOPICS

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

Dynamic/declarative business process modelling
Implementation issues for dynamic/declarative processes
Tools for dynamic/declarative processes
Real-world use cases of dynamic/declarative business processes
Business rules and policies
Rule driven business process engines
Business + technical requirements for dynamic/declarative processes
Dynamic/declarative model specification
Mathematical foundations of dynamic/declarative business processes
Formal models of dynamic/declarative business processes
Monitoring of dynamic/declarative business processes
Validation and model checking of dynamic/declarative business processes
Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for dynamic and declarative business processes
Service-oriented architectures and dynamic/declarative business processes
Interoperability for dynamic/declarative business processes
Semantic Web and ontologies and declarative and dynamic business processes
Collaboration and declarative/dynamic business processes
Data-driven process evolution
Evolution of cross-organisational processes / process choreographies
Complex event processing models/support for dynamic and declarative business processes

SUBMISSION

The workshop duration is one day. It will comprise of presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions can either in form of a short paper with 4 pages or full paper with 8-10 pages. Submissions must use the IEEE conference proceedings template from the IEEE website and must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair.

Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee by the 4th of June 2010. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the main conference and participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 Workshops will be published with their own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library, which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: May 2nd, 2010 (extended)
Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due: June 28th, 2010 (extended)

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS