BP-Cloud 2015 - Workshop on Business Processes in the Cloud

The central theme of the BP-Cloud workshop is the adoption of the Cloud Computing paradigm for business process modelling and analysis. Cloud Computing is a new information technology performing on-demand delivery of platforms, infrastructures or software as a service. It allows for network access to a shared set of configurable computing and storage resources as well as customizable applications. For these reasons, Cloud Computing is an opportunity also from the perspective of business process modelling and analytics. From the business process modelling perspective, design-time cloud-based services can increase the collaboration between geographically dispersed organizations and teams. Moreover, from the business process analytics perspective, Cloud Computing can offer a more extended shared data recording and a process centered cloud systems useful to extract information about the underlying processes. The workshop is open to researchers and practitioners from different communities, such as process mining, business process management, business process analysis, business process discovery. The workshop is also of interest for the industrial area, given the increasing need for companies to understand their business processes to improve process speed, reduce cycle time, increase quality and to reduce costs.
Goals
The goal of the workshop is to encourage a deeper understanding of how the Cloud Computing paradigm can be applied in the Business Process Management area advantaging fields like business process mining, process monitoring, process design. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of the ongoing research and sharing practical experiences coming from the context of both academia and industry. Moreover, we hope to give a contribution to encourage new collaborations between researcher that are working in the involved area increasing the sharing of tools, approaches and techniques. The workshop will also try to identify new research directions and challenges and is, therefore, of interest both for those whose research combines business process and cloud computing, and for those who have primarily worked in one of these areas but want to learn more about the other one.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted, to the following aspects:
Cloud and BPM: concepts and theories
Analysis of Business processes as services and their impact
Model-driven reengineering of Web systems in the context of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing and BPM: social and technological aspects
Applications of Cloud computing in BPM
BPM as a platform or software service
Cloud-centric flexibility, adaptability and evolution
Cloud-based Compliance
BPM cloud-based security, privacy and reliability
Design-based BPM in the cloud
Cloud supported BPM design
Languages for design of cloud platform based processes
Execution engines for business processes in cloud
Virtual resources selection and distribution
Load balancing and process/activities/engine scale in/out
Virtual resources selection and distribution
Cloud based Process monitoring
Virtual resources selection and distribution
New models for BPM delivery and deployment
Cloud Computing and BPM applications case studies
Requirements and definitions of use cases for process in the cloud
Empirical studies about cloud-based BPM