PAS 2015 - 2015 International Workshop on Process Aware Systems (PAS2015)

“Process” is a pervasive concept existing in almost every research and application field such as business, computing and information theory, engineering, industrial and manufacturing, healthcare, science and statistics, biology and psychology, philosophy, and many others. Despite its various specific definitions for each field, a process can be interpreted as “a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end” according to the Oxford Dictionary. In the recent decade, partially driven by the big data hype, process related technologies have been extensively investigated and promoted in the area of business process management (BPM) and workflow management systems (WfMS) with topics covering the whole process lifecycle such as process modelling, process verification, process execution, workflow resource scheduling, process monitoring, process exception handling, and the analysis of historical data in BPM system and WfMS such as the statistical analysis for performance metrics and process mining. However, above topics have also been investigated (maybe with different terms) in many other production, management and IT service domains such as product line management, software process, Web services, and cyber-physical systems.
SCOPE AND INTERESTS
The 2015 International Workshop on Process Aware Systems (PAS2015) is a cross-area international forum on process aware systems. Followed by the success of PAS2014 at Shanghai, China, PAS2015 at Hangzhou, China aims at bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in process management, and formally exploring various potentials about process management in the era of cloud computing and big data from the perspective of both academic and industry. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
Foundations and Architecture for Process Aware Systems：
Process modeling languages, notations and methods
Artifact-centric business processes
Automated process composition & synthesis
Resource management and workflow scheduling in process aware systems
Software Techniques and Architectures for process aware systems
Process-oriented software architectures
Service-oriented architectures for Process Aware Systems
Infrastructure as a service for process aware systems
Platform as a service for Process aware systems
Software as a service for Process aware systems
Big Data and Cloud Computing for Process Aware Systems：
Big data and big process management
Big data processing and big process mining
Cloud-based BPM and Workflow as a Service
Security, privacy and trust in Big data/Cloud-based BPM
Business process crowdsourcing based on social networks
Business process in hybrid cloud environments
Scientific workflows in the cloud
Monitoring, Adaptation and Improvement of Process Aware Systems：
process data curing and warehousing
Process tracing and monitoring
Process performance measurement
Process data analytics and visualization
Adaptive and context-aware processes
Business process lifecycle management
Business process improvement
Applications and Empirical Studies of Process Aware Systems：
Knowledge-intensive processes
Data-driven processes
Distributed and mobile processes
Inter-process planning and coordination
Adoption and Practice of process aware systems
Case studies and experience reports
Process aware system education and training
Software Development Process for Process Aware Systems：
Development processes for emerging and evolving process aware systems
Agile/Lean processes in (software) systems development
Process issues in developing adaptive and evolving software systems
Continuous process improvement in diverse areas and context
Distributed/Global development and large-scale processes
Process modeling, simulation and analysis
Process/Project management and assessment
Process metrics and tools
Cost estimation and project planning
Processes for cutting-edge software technologies, including (but not limited to) ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, multi-core technologies, and cellular technologies
Non-software Aspects of Process Aware Systems：
Processes in non-software domains (e.g., business, health care, manufacturing, transportation, etc.) with a demonstrated relationship to process aware systems
Modeling of physical and computation processes
Integrations of computation, communication, and control processes
process -oriented control systems
Process technology characterization, extraction, and modeling of design for manufacturability
Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems
Process-variation aware embedded system design
Pulications
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the CCIS series (EI Index). For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper.
KEY DATES
Abstract due:July 31, 2015
Full papers due:August 7, 2015
Notification of acceptance:October 4, 2015
Camera-ready papers deadline:October 18, 2015
Conference:October 31, 2015
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIRS
Prof. Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA
Prof. Qing Wang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, China
PROGRAM CHAIRS
He Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Hongyan Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Jihong Liu, Beijing University of Aeronautics And Astronautics, China
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China
PUBLICATION CHAIRS
Xiao Liu, East China Normal University, China
LOCAL ORGNIZATION CHAIRS
YuYu Yin, Zhejiang University, China
DEMO TRACK CHAIRS
Kaijun Ren, National University of Defense Technology, China
Yingbo Liu, Tsinghua University, China
STEERING COMMITTEE
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Chongyi Yuan, Peking University, China
Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China
Jianwen Su, The University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.
Arthurter Hofstede, Queensland Univesity Of Technology, Australia
PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE (TBC)
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Rong Liu, IBM Research, USA
Florian Daniel, University of Trento
Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College London, UK
Josep Carmona Vargas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), USA
Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Luciano Garcia Banuelos, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jiacun Wang, Monmouse University, USA
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Zaiwen Feng, Wuhan University, China
Tao Hu, Hannan University, Japan
Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science And Technology
Zongwei Luo, Hongkong University
Shiyong Lv, Wayne State University, U.K.
Kaijun Ren, National University of Defence Technology, China
Li Wan, Huazhong University of Science And Technology, China
Jianming Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Zhongjie Wang, Harbin Institute Of Technology, China
Jinghua Xiong, Institute Of Computing Technology, Chiese Academy Of Science, China
Dong Yang, Donghua University, China
Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China
Yu Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China
Yang Zhang, Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, China
Xiao Liu, East China Normal University, China
Lizhen Cui, Shangdong University, China
Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China
Min Liu, Tongji University, China
Chun Ouyang, Queensland University Of Technology, Australia
Raymond Wong, University Of New South Wales, Australia
Zhe Shan, University Of Cincinnati, U.S.
Jianwen Su, The University Of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.
Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute Of Technology, China
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China
Jun Wei, Institute Of Software, Chinese Academy Of Science, China
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Yuan Chongyi, Peking University, China
Mingsong Chen, East China Normal University
Kamel Barkaoui, Cedric CNAM Paris, France
Qing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Junchao Xiao,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiaohui Zhao, Univ of Canberra, Australia
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Tech, USA
Xumin Liu, Rochester Institute of Tech, USA
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Rong Liu, IBM, TJ Watson, USA
Jay Shan, University of Cincinnati, USA
Ling Liu，Tsinghua University, China