PMC-M 2014 - 5th International Workshop on Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-M)

Nowadays, as organizations reach higher levels of Business Process Management maturity, they tend to collect and actively use large numbers of business process models. It is quite common that such collections of industry-strength business process models includethousands of activities and related business objects such as data, applications, risks, etc. These models are used for a variety of business needs, including requirements analysis, communication, automation and compliance.
Such large collections of process models introduce both new challenges and opportunities to the area of business process management. On the one hand, it may not come as a surprise that many organizations struggle to manage such volumes of complex process models. This problem is exacerbated by overlapping content across models, poor version management, process models that are used simultaneously for different purposes, the use of different modeling notations such as EPCs, BPMN, etc. On the other hand, the process models in the collection provide a valuable source of information, which can be reused to facilitate the development of new process models. This reuse will lead to more efficient development of models that are of higher quality and better integrated with the existing models in the collection.
Against this backdrop, the aim of the 4th Int. Workshop on Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-RM 13) is to attract novel research in the area of management and reuse of business process model collections. Conceptual, technical and application-oriented contributions are pursued within the scope of this theme:
Conceptual work relates to the design of approaches for the management and reuse of process model collections, e.g. frameworks and structures to govern the use of such collections.
Technical work concerns solutions to operationalize the management and facilitate the reuse of content in process model repositories, e.g. aspect-oriented or refactoring techniques. It also concerns software aspects related to process model repositories such as version management, efficient storage, querying and retrieval of process models, and security.
Application papers can provide case studies with, or empirical evaluations of, industrial process model collections and reference process models (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).
This workshop stems from the merge of two workshops: the Int. Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management and the Int. Workshop on Process Model Collections.
intended audience
The intended audience of the workshop consists of both BPM researchers and practitioners who have an interest in methods, approaches and techniques for management and reuse of process model collections. Our purpose is to actively invite researchers from the academic network of both the organizing and the program committees to submit papers.