BPMC 2015 - 3rd International Workshop On Business Process Management Above And Below The Clouds (BPMC15)

The Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle is typically attributed to include at least the following phases: Design & Analysis, Configuration, Enactment, and Evaluation. While there has been tremendous progress in all these areas in the last decade, surprisingly little focus has been put on the technological side of process enactment  i.e., considerations on platform, architecture, and infrastructure  despite its obvious influence on all BPM phases.
There is a multitude of technical approaches to realize process enactment. Out of these possibilities, cloud computing has gained increased attention in recent years offering process enactment solutions. Cloud computing is a paradigm for the on-demand delivery of infrastructure, platform, or software as a service (XaaS). 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 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 distribution and installation of software, and is thus more attractive for the occasional user.
In addition, there is a multitude of other technologies which could be applied to enact business processes, ranging from Peer-to-Peer (P2P)-based approaches to mobile BPM to common client-server architectures.
Given the high importance of cloud computing and process enactment, the number of publications from the BPM research community is surprisingly low. Consequently, this workshop focuses on two distinct aspects: First, applications and usage of cloud technologies in BPM and second, process enactment in general, i.e., using cloud or other technologies. Notably, all contributions to the field of cloud computing in BPM are welcome - we do not limit according contributions to process enactment using cloud technologies.
Consequently, the main goals of this workshop are:
To raise awareness about these black spots in BPM research,
to carve out topic areas and challenges, as well as the development of a research community with a specific focus on the technological side of project enactment,
to discuss and shape the future role of cloud computing for BPM.
At BPMC 2014, a number of open research topics were identified, which we hope will serve as inspiration. The open topics are described as part of the Preface of BPMC 2014.
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Topics
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned problem domains. 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:
BPM in the Cloud, e.g.
Automated service and virtual resource selection and allocation
BPM as a platform or software service
Business process modelling & analytics as a Service
Load balancing and scheduling of BPM engines/ processes/ process instances/ process tasks
Process mining in the cloud
Methods, tools, techniques to design cloud aspects of BPM systems
Monitoring of processes and process steps running in the cloud
Scaling of BPM engines/ processes/ process instances/ process tasks
Security, privacy, and trust in cloud-based BPM
Concepts and theory for BPM enactment, e.g.
Change in BPM enactment
Compliance in BPM enactment
Flexibility, adaptability and evolution in BPM enactment
Security, privacy, and trust in BPM enactment
Socio-technical aspects of BPM enactment
Standards for BPM enactment
Technologies for Process Enactment, e.g.
Ad-hoc and flexible processes
Cloud-based process enactment
Event-driven BPM
Mobile BPM
Peer-2-Peer BPM
Use cases for BPM enactment and cloud-based BPM, e.g.
Best practices, success factors and empirical studies
New delivery models for BPM, application scenarios
Reports on use cases within companies and government
Requirements definition issues for use cases
Enactment and process mining