BPMC 2014 - 2nd International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud (BPMC'14)

Cloud computing is a paradigm for the on-demand delivery of infrastructure, platform, or software as a service. Cloud computing enables network access to a shared pool of configurable computing and storage resources as well as applications which can be tailored to the consumer’s needs. Cloud resources can be rapidly provisioned and released, and are billed based on actual use, thus reducing up-front investment costs. Not only can individual services be hosted on virtual infrastructures but also complete process platforms. Further, besides benefits to run-time Business Process Management (BPM), during design-time cloud-based services can enable collaboration between geographically dispersed teams and assist the design process in general ? amongst others, Process Modelling as a Service removes the need for installation of software, and is thus more attractive for the occasional user.
A cloud-based architecture for BPM may provide important benefits:
Elasticity: process engines or process tasks can scale up/out or down/in depending on the actual load to reduce investment cost and manage load peaks.
Flexibility: processes can be assembled with more flexibility as service selection can not only include the software but also the platform or infrastructure for it to run on.
Measurement: as service applications in the cloud are individually metered, detailed measurement data is available and can be used to provide additional services such as process monitoring.
The research directions of core interest to this workshop are summarized by three questions:
How can BPM benefit from the cloud?
What should BPM in the cloud look like?
What can BPM bring to cloud computing practices?
Among a number of challenges, there is a lack of conceptualization and theory on BPM with respect to cloud computing. For the most part, the topic of cloud computing has only been implicitly regarded in BPM research when discussing design-time tools. Few works have addressed workflow enactment in the cloud to date. However, a detailed research agenda which covers theory, design-time, run-time, and use cases is missing. The goal of the 2nd International Workshop on Business Process Management in the Cloud is to lay the foundation for such a research agenda
Topics
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned problem domain. We also invite people from the scientific workflow community to submit papers, so that the different communities can share insights and ideas. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Cloud and BPM: concepts and theory, e.g.
Cloud-centric flexibility, adaptability and evolution in BPM
Business Process or BPM as a Service (BPaaS/ BPMaaS)
BPM as a platform or software service
Business process analytics as a service
Compliance in cloud-based BPM
Security, privacy, and trust in cloud-based BPM
Socio-technical aspects of cloud computing for BPM
Design-time BPM in the cloud, e.g.
Methods, tools, techniques to design cloud aspects of BPM systems
Cloud support for BPM design
Design-time optimization of process models and systems
Description languages for cloud-based processes
Run-time BPM in the cloud, e.g.
Automated service and virtual resource selection and allocation
Load balancing of BPM engines/ processes/ process instances/ process tasks
Scaling of BPM engines/ processes/ process instances/ process tasks
Monitoring of processes and process steps running in the cloud
Security enforcement in cloud-based BPM
Use cases for BPM in the cloud, e.g.
Best practices, success factors and empirical studies on cloud-based BPM
New delivery models for BPM, application scenarios
Reports on use cases within companies and government
Requirements definition issues for use cases
Application of cloud computing concepts from scientific workflows to BPM
Submission
The following types of submission are solicited:
Full paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Full papers should be at most 12 pages long.
Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be at most 6 pages long.
Use case submissions, describing results from a cloud-based use case. These papers should be at most 6 pages long.
Papers should be submitted in LNBIP format. Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (Full Paper/ Short Paper/ Use case).
Papers can be uploaded via the submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmc14