POCBR 2012 - International Workshop on Process-oriented Case-Based Reasoning

September 3rd, Lyon, France The second workshop on Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning (PO-CBR) is dedicated to address the challenges of integrating Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) with process-oriented research areas like Business Process Management, Workflow Management and Planning. Consequently, several types of processes are in the interest of this workshop, mainly business processes, software processes, planning processes, and search processes.
Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities aimed at defining, executing, monitoring and optimizing BP, with the objective of making the business of an enterprise as effective and efficient as possible, and of increasing its economic success. Such activities are highly automated, typically by means of the workflow technology. BPM activities, and BP optimization in particular, may ask the enterprise to be able to flexibly change and adapt the predefined process schema, in response to expected situations (e.g. new laws, reengineering efforts) as well as to unanticipated exceptions and problems in the operating environment (e.g. emergencies).
The agile workflow technology is the technical solution which has been invoked to deal with such adaptation and overriding needs. In order to provide an effective and quick workflow change support, many agile workflow systems share the idea of recalling and reusing concrete examples of changes adopted in the past. To this end, Case-based Reasoning (CBR) has been proposed as a natural methodological solution.
Software Processes can be studied from different points of view. In the Software Engineering field, artifacts like models, diagrams, etc. define Software Development Processes that can be reused to generate new applications. There is also a significant trend on reusing different software components to compose a workflow that models the behavior of a system. Web Services, Scientific Software or Product Lines are some examples of such approaches. In this topic we cannot forget a closely related domain like Planning. All these areas are related to Software Processes and can take advantage of the CBR paradigm to reuse existing solutions, components, compositions or plans. As a matter of fact, in recent years many examples of CBR-based process change reuse and workflow adaptation support have been proposed in the literature. The workshop should serve as a means for exchanging novel as well as more consolidated ideas and examples in the field, and to identify promising research lines and challenges for the future.
The workshop on Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning intends to encourage the exchange of information and ideas about Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning (PO-CBR) by contributions in areas that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Methodological issues
Case-based representation of process knowledge (by workflows, traces, plans, etc.)
Case-based retrieval for process optimization
Similarity measures for process optimization
Experience reuse in PO-CBR
Case-based adaptation for process optimization
Extraction of process knowledge
Visualization and explanation of process knowledge
Applications, systems and tools
PO-CBR applications in Business Process Management, Software Processes, E-Science, Web Science, E-Governance, E-Health, product development, search, games, cooking, and further application domains
Evaluating CBR tools for PO-CBR
Agile workflow technology with CBR components
CBR in (commercial) workflow management tools
Lessons learned in PO-CBR investigations
Challenge tasks for CBR systems in the context of business processes, software processes, planning processes, search processes