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CALL FOR PAPERS - APBPM 2014
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management
Brisbane, Australia, July 3-4, 2014
http://www.ap-bpm.org
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The Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management 2014 (APBPM 2014) is the second edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. Its purpose is to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. Through this conference, we aim to set up a bridge between actual industrial requirements and leading edge research outcomes to the growth of economic rising powers of the Asia-Pacific region. The second conference will take place on July 3-4, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.


**** TOPICS ****
The topics for both research and industry papers include, but are not limited to:
- Business process design and modeling
- Process modeling languages and notations
- Process model repositories
- Process patterns and process reference models
- Business process execution
- Workflow modeling and management
- Business process monitoring
- Process architecture and platform (Open-source BPM, Cloud & mobile BPM, etc.)
- Adaptive process control
- Process driven performance management
- Process diagnosis
- Process mining
- Process knowledge management
- Operational intelligence in BPM
- Resource and data-driven BPM
- Context-aware BPM
- Social media and BPM
- Big data and BPM
- Decision science in BPM
- Data mining/business intelligence for Business Process
- Experience reports from BPM implementations within the Asia-Pacific region
- Case studies carried out within the Asia-Pacific region (BPM in logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, etc.)

**** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ****
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNBIP formatting guidelines (for instructions and style sheets see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0). Submissions must be in English. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. The title page must contain a short abstract clarifying the relation of the paper with the topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file via the APBPM 2014 submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbpm2014). Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference.

**** PUBLICATION ****
All accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by LNBIP. For each accepted (full/short) paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. A selection of papers accepted for and presented at APBPM 2014 will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice (IJIETAP), which is indexed by SCIE, EI/Compendex, etc. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/.

**** KEY DATES ****
- Full/short papers due: January 10th, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: February 21st, 2014
- Camera-ready papers deadline: March 14th, 2014

**** COMMITTEES ****
GENERAL CHAIR
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Moe Thandar Wynn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Zhiqiang Yan, Capital University of Economics and Business, China

STEERING COMMITTEE
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan
Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative)
Saiful Akbar, ITB, Indonesia
Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Namwook Cho, Seoul National Univ. of Technology, Korea
Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China
Stijn Dekeyser, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Zaiwen Feng, Wuhan University, China
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Yingbo Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan
Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Dongsoo Kim, Soongsil University, Korea
Kwanghoon Kim, Kyonggi University, Korea
Minsoo Kim, Pukyung National University, Korea
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Singapore
Michiharu Kudo, IBM Research, Japan
Raymond Lau, City University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China
Anto Satriyo Nugroho, Center for Information & Communica-tion Technology, Indonesia
Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Helen Paik, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Punnamee Sachakamol, Kasetsart University, Thailand Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia
Lawrence Si, University of Macau, Macau, China
Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China
Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia
Raymond Wong, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Moe Thandar Wynn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Bernardo N. Yahya, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Zhiqiang Yan, Captial University of Economics and Business, China
Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China
Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China
Yang Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommuni-cations, China


Inquiries regarding this call for papers may be addressed to the program committee co-chairs at: jyjung@khu.ac.kr or c.ouyang@qut.edu.au.