BPMDS 2016 - 2016 Working Conference on Business Processes in a Connected World

BPMDS solicits papers related to Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS) in general, using quality as a main selection criterion. As a working conference, we would like to attract full papers describing mature research, but we still give place to industrial reports and visionary idea papers.
To encourage new and emerging challenges and research directions in the area of business process modeling, development, and support, we have a unique focus theme every year. Papers submitted as idea papers will be required to be of relevance to the focus theme, thus providing a mass of new ideas around a relatively narrow but emerging research area. Full research papers and experience reports are not required to be directly connected to this theme (they still need to be explicitly relevant to BPMDS though). The focus theme for BPMDS'16 idea papers is:
Business Processes in a Connected World
Business processes are part of an increasingly connected world. Persons are connected permanently and are able to participate in business processes. Objects are becoming connected too. They are not only the object of business processes but increasingly influence the execution of business processes. Numerous data sources are accessible from business processes and influence them.
For the 17th edition of the BPMDS conference, we invite the interested authors to engage, through their idea papers and the discussions during the two days of BPMDS’2016 in Ljubljana, in a deep discussion with all participants about business processes are modeled, developed and supported in a connected world.
We also welcome research papers that include ideas on how theoretical results discussed can be used in practice, as well as experience reports on using theories in practice. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Business Processes in a Connected World
- Connected persons
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- Connected objects
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- Connected data
Business Process Modeling
- Business process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Multi-perspectives on business process modeling
- Integrating Value into Business Process Modeling
- Representing Value Co-Creation
- Coherence among multi-perspective representations
- Theoretical foundations for analyzing, modeling business processes
- Verification and validation of business process models
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Dynamic configuration; modeling by reuse
- Granularity, development of reusable and context-aware components; modeling for reuse
- Domain specific reference models
- Business process modeling enhanced by social software and social networks
Business Process Support
- Support for Value-Co-Creation e.g. Social Software
- Business process change management and governance issues
- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business processes
- Business process support architectures and platforms
- Business process support based on a service-oriented architecture
- Business process support combined with social software and social networks
- Work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs control support in business processes
- Enhancing creativity in business processes
- Mobile technologies and context aware business processes
- Business processes using cloud-services
Requirements on Business Processes
- Value co-creation
- Value management/engineering in business processes
- User integration for value co-creation
- Compliance, reliability, security, performance
- Flexibility, variability, adaptability
- Metrics, maturity and continuous improvement
- Strategy, business processes, people and IT: alignment, fit and coherence
- Knowledge-intensive business processes
- Context aware business processes
- Cross-organizational business processes
- Data-intensive business processes
- BPMDS in the cloud