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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).