IOPs 2016 - 2016 International Workshop on Inter-Organizational Processes

The business world heavily builds upon inter-organizational division of labor requiring cooperation among different partnering companies. Cooperation results in both value creation but also transaction costs, which can be reduced by appropriate system support. In fact, we see currently substantial transformations in some areas because of the proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies that help achieve inter-organizational cooperation.
In many cases, inter-organizational cooperation is realized using concepts and technologies from the field of Business Process Management (BPM). The 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 overcoming the rigidity of inter-organizational processes, despite the obvious need to achieve this in order to enable the distributed enterprises of the future.
Consequently, the main goals of the International Workshop on Inter-Organizational Processes (IOPs 2016) are:
to raise awareness about this black spot in research on business processes and distributed enterprises;
to carve out topic areas and challenges, as well as the development of a research community with a specific focus on correctness, maintainability, and reliability of inter-organizational processes;
to discuss and shape the future role of inter-organizational processes in distributed enterprise computing;
Among a number of challenges, there is a lack of conceptualization and theory on overcoming rigid inter-organizational processes. The goal of IOPs 2016 is to map the state of the art and to lay the foundation for a joint research agenda by providing and discussing contributions in topic areas below.
Topics
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned problem domain. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Correctness of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
Control and distribution of inter-organizational processes
Data and data semantics for inter-organizational processes
Consistency between inter-organizational process models and process instances
Verification of inter-organizational processes
Validation and debugging techniques for inter-organizational processes
Maintainability of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
Stakeholder support for modelling and changing inter-organizational processes
Alignment between inter-organizational processes and software systems: methods, techniques, and tools
Development techniques for inter-organizational processes
Domain-specific languages for inter-organizational processes
Change propagation in inter-organizational processes
Reliability of Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
Monitoring for inter-organizational processes
Event identification in inter-organizational processes
Scalability and elasticity for inter-organizational process enactment
Security, privacy, and trust in inter-organizational processes
Fault tolerance mechanisms for inter-organizational processes
Cross-cutting Concerns, e.g.,
General modelling approaches for inter-organizational processes
Context for inter-organizational processes
Compliance in inter-organizational processes
Flexibility, adaptability and evolution in inter-organizational processes
Process mining in inter-organizational settings
Standards for inter-organizational processes
Technologies for Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
Ad-hoc and flexible processes
Cloud-based process enactment
Event-driven BPM
Experiences in Inter-Organizational Processes, e.g.,
Best practices, success factors and empirical studies
New delivery models for inter-organizational processes
Reports on use cases
Requirements definition issues for use cases