WiVS 2011 - Workshop on Flexible Workflows in Distributed Systems (WiVS)

Workshop on Flexible Workflows in Distributed Systems (WiVS)
Overview

Management of business processes is of major importance for today’s enterprises, operating in increasingly dynamic environments. The technical support for business processes remains a complex challenge, due to their manifold characteristics, and requires a workflow-based execution infrastructure at the IT side. Besides traditional aspects like distribution, concur-rency and resource management, especially the dynamics of the execution context has to be taken care of. In this respect, the current research in this area more and more dismisses the initial assumptions of traditional process-based approaches that processes ? once deployed and instantiated ? are kept basically unchanged and are executed always as planned. Instead the flexibility of workflows gains considerable attention, whereby the dynamics to be supported ranges from properties of the technical environment (e.g. in the area of mobile applications) up to completely dynamic ad-hoc processes of knowledge workers.

The area of flexible workflow management represents an interesting overlap for research approaches from different disciplines of distributed systems, such as service oriented archi-tecture (SOA) / web services, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, and enterprise application integration. Thus, the workshop WiVS is as an integrating forum for researchers from the named areas and fosters the discussion and knowledge transfer among participants by the common incitement of flexible workflows. Moreover, the workshop targets technologies as well as applications in order to bring current research and practice closer together.

Topics

The workshop covers topics from the area of workflows and distributed systems. A special focus of the workshop is on flexibility and on systems deployed in dynamic contexts. Topics for contributions include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following:

Flexibility and Dynamics in Workflows

Modeling and execution of flexible workflows
Adaptive / agile workflows
Multi-agent systems for workflow control
Mobile workflows
Ad-hoc workflows and collaborative workflows
Workflows and business rules
Workflows und event-based systems
Provenance, versioning and evolution of workflow models
SOA and web services
Dynamic service orchestration and choreography
Workflow monitoring, self-control and automatic adaptation
Similarity of workflows
Applications of Flexible Workflow-based Systems

Controllability of flexible workflow-based systems
Benchmarks und evaluations
Comparisons to alternative technologies
Innovative application areas for flexible workflow-based systems
Practical experiences
Submissions

We invite submissions of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted according to the style of the Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of Software Science and Technology) journal and not exceed 12 pages including figures, references, etc. Templates can be obtained from: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/

The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the KiVS 2011 conference as a special issue of the ECEASST Journal (ISSN 1863-2122).

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification: November 28, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due: December 19, 2010
KiVS Conference: March 8 ? 11, 2011

Organization

Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg
Peter Dadam, Universität Ulm
Mirjam Minor, Universität Trier
Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg

Questions to the workshop organizers should be directed to: wivs2011-AT-easychair.org.