[Dbworld] CFP: Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management

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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

  Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management
                         CeBPM'2012

                      http://sprers.eu/cebpm
               November 28th, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus

                 in conjunction with WISE2012
       http://www.wise2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/workshops.html
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Cloud-enabled Business Process Management (CeBPM) is an emerging research area aiming 
to address the gap between the automatisation and optimization of business operations on one side 
and the offering of software service utilities needed to support such business operations on the other. 
Expected benefits of this endeavour are higher availability of business processes on demand, 
the scalable and elastic provision of needed resources and infrastructures, flexible implementation 
of new business processes relying on CeBPM platforms, lower startup costs for new enterprises 
and the possibility to chose and optimise the service utility based on non-functional requirements 
(e.g. reliability, security and so on). Therefore BPM in the Cloud is emerging as a set of new 
technologies that would facilitate the increasingly resource demanding daily business operations 
of enterprises. Along this line, there are new conceptual and technological barriers that must be 
solved in order to reach a certain level of maturity, including mechanisms for the authoring of 
new business operations from the business environment, which support innovation, 
interoperability solutions, techniques to deploy software utilities on the Cloud, 
the management of business processes extending over multiple Clouds.

In this context, CeBPM intends to be a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in 
Cloud-enabled business processes, allowing them to identify the latest progress in the field 
as well as future directions that need intensive research and development.

Deadlines:
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*   Full Paper submission deadline:  September 3rd, 2012   
*   Acceptance notification: October 8th, 2012   
*   Workshop: November 28th, 2012
*   Submission of extended versions to SCPE:  February 28th, 2013

Topics:
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    Migration of business-oriented legacy applications towards Clouds
    Business processes using Cloud services
    Eco-systems of Cloud services and service brokers
    Reusable patterns of business processes
    Business processes adapted to service-oriented architectures
    Model-driven approaches for business process management
    Business rules engines
    Best practice and experience in Cloud-enabled BPM platforms
    Data management between Clouds
    Privacy and security of data in Clouds
    Workflow execution in Clouds
    Process engineering in multiple Clouds
    Quality of service guarantees and service level agreements in multiple Clouds
    Open-source for business process management

Paper submissions:
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    The submitted papers must be formatted according to the author guidelines
    provided by Springer LNCS format.
    The intended limit for submissions is 12 pages for technical papers 
    and 4 pages for position papers.
    The paper should be submitted at the EasyChair account of CeBPM.

    The proceedings of all WISE 2012 Workshops, including CeBPM papers, 
    will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series. 
    The proceedings will be published post conference.

    Selected papers (after their expansion and revision) will be published in a 
    special  journal issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (SCPE).

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