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Workshop Theme and Scope
The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems is in the representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations.
Since 2005, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP‐centric IT landscapes. The term "Semantic Business Process Management" has been suggested for the described branch of research in an early 2005 paper, which is now frequently cited as the first description of the overall vision. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project "SUPER", with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM.
In the past two years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities. There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event, as previous events with excellent attendance have shown.
In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.
In particular, we are inviting papers, posters, and hands-on demonstrations in the following application areas:
- Compliance and Corporate Governance
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- ERP Customizing and Maintenance
- Human Resources Management
- E-Procurement
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Decision Support Systems
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Modeling and Systems Analysis
- Corporate Knowledge Management
- Legal Applications
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Target Audience
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from core Semantic Web research with
colleagues from the following research communities and practitioner groups:
- Business Process Management
- Management Information Systems
- Software Engineering
- Business Intelligence
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- Conceptual Modeling
- Knowledge Management
- Civil Engineering, and
- Medical Research and Healthcare
It is key to foster exchange between these communities and core SW research, since the former
have a wealth of domain knowledge and a good understanding of the complexity of real-world
problems, but lack a concise understanding of current SW research; while researchers working on
foundational Semantic Web components often work with simplified assumptions about the future
application domains.
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Current Relevance of the Topic
Within the past years, the Semantic Web research community has brought to maturity a comprehensive set of foundational technology components, and this both at the conceptual level and in the form of prototypes and software. This includes, among other assets, ontology engineering methodologies, standardized ontology languages, ontology engineering tools, and other infrastructure like APIs, repositories, and scalable reasoners, plus a plethora of work for making the Deep Web and computational functionality in the form of Web Services accessible at a semantic level. However, the amount of visible applications and convincing showcases is still limited, in
particular in the Business Process Management domain.
In particular, there exist many pressing challenges in business information systems, e-business, or the healthcare sector that would obviously benefit from the higher level of abstraction and the increase in automation that semantic technologies can offer; but dissemination of the state of the art in SW technology into the respective communities is still to be improved.
On the other hand has Semantic Web research passed a peak in public funding and research
intensity. There is at this point in time an urgent need for presenting convincing showcases of
semantic technology and use them
1. as a catalyst for disseminating the Semantic Web vision into real-world applications,
2. steering future research focus and keeping up research interest, and
3. for justifying past and future investments into Semantic Web research from funding agencies and industrial enterprises.
Also, the growing interest in lightweight, collaborative approaches requires an update of the SBPM
research agenda.
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Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: April 20th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 4th, 2009
Camera-ready versions: May 18th, 2009
Workshop Day: June 1st 2009
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Submission
We invite the submission of
- full papers (5-8 pages),
- discussion papers and experimental contributions (2-4 pages),
- demo descriptions (1-3 pages), and
- poster abstracts (1-2 pages).
Full papers and selected short papers will be included in the official proceedings, which will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings format (see (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair Conference Management System at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpm2009.
Important: Clearly indicate the type of the contribution, e.g. as sub-title.
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Workshop Schedule
The Workshop is planned as a full-day event, including a keynote, paper presentations, lightning talks, demos, posters, and a moderated, open discussion with the clear goal of agreeing upon a research roadmap for Semantic Business Process Management research.
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Opening
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| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Invited Talk
John Domingue: Semantic Business Process Management: Experiences from the SUPER Project
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Process Ontologies
Liliana Cabral, Barry Norton and Domingue John. The Business Process Modelling Ontology (20+5) [PDF]
Agata Filipowska, Monika Kaczmarek, Ivan Markovic, Marek Kowalkiewicz and Xuan Zhou. Organizational Ontologies to Support Semantic Business Process
Management (20+5) [PDF]
David de Francisco Marcos and Pierre Grenon. EnhancingTelecommunication Business Process Representation and Integration with Ontologised Industry Standards (20+5) [PDF]
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| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Process Analysis
Dong Liu, Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue. Semantic Enabled Complex Event Language for Business Process Monitoring (20+5) [PDF]
Discussion (30 min)
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| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch
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| 14:30 - 15:45 |
Process and Ontology Engineering
Mick Kerrigan, Barry Norton, Elena Simperl and Dieter Fensel. Semantic Web Service Engineering for Semantic Business Process Management (20+5) [PDF]
Violeta Damjanovic. Ontology Design Patterns for Semantic Business Processes (10+5) [PDF]
Ma José Ibáñez, Pedro Alvarez, Sami Bhiri and Joaquin Ezpeleta. Unary RDF-Annotated Petri Nets: A Formalism for the Modeling and Validation of Business Processes with Semantic Information (10+5) [PDF]
Janina Fengel and Michael Rebstock. Model-Based Domain Ontology Engineering (10+5) [PDF]
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| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:15 - 17:15 |
Ontology Applications
Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue. Ontology-Based Metrics Computation for Business Process Analysis (20+5) [PDF]
Ljiljana Stojanovic, Jun Ma and Nenad Stojanovic. Semantic-based Enterprise Attention Management Systems(20+5) [PDF]
Barry Norton. Towards the Ontology-based Transformation of Business Process Models (10+5) [PDF]
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| 17:15 - 18:00 |
Final Discussion
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Professor John Domingue, the scientific director of the SUPER project has agreed to give a keynote on SBPM an the Future Internet initiatives.
For the moderated community discussion, we will have senior experts from our Program
Committee and Experts from an industrial background. A clear objective of that discussion is to
yield a first draft of a respective research agenda.
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Proceedings
The post-proceedings of the workshop will appear in the ACM Digital Library shortly. The official citation is:
Martin Hepp and Nenad Stojanovic (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM2009), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. (to be assigned), ISBN 978-1-60558-513-0, ACM Press, 2009.
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Organizing Committee
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Program Committee
- Witold Abramowicz
- Eve Blomqvist
- Christoph Bussler
- Lililana Cabral
- Jorge Cardoso
- Oscar Corcho
- Tommaso Di Noia
- Agata Filipowska
- Douglas Foxvog
- Christian Huemer
- John Krogstie
- Florian Lautenbacher
- Pieter de Leenheer
- Juhnyoung Lee
- Jan Mendling
- Markus Nüttgens
- Michael Rebstock
- Jan Recker
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