edBPM 2009

The recently coined term «Event-Driven Business Process Management» (EDBPM) is nowadays an enhancement of BPM by new concepts of Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Software as a Service, Business Activity Monitoring and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this context BPM means a software platform which provides companies the ability to model, manage, and optimize these processes for significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a parallel running platform that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and the CEP-platform correspond via events which are produced by the BPM-workflow engine and by the – if distributed - IT services which are associated with the business process steps. Also events coming from different event sources in different forms can trigger a business process or influence the execution of a process or a service, which can result in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a particular context can be treated as a complex, business level event, relevant for the execution of other business processes or services. A business process – arbitrarily fine or coarse grained – can be seen as a service again and can be “choreographed” with other business processes or services, even between different enterprises and organizations.

Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides significant benefits:

• Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and processes respond to them immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen.
• Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and optimized more quickly in response to changing business requirements.
• Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and programming languages. Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without breaking the process model.

 

The main goal of the workshop is to create awareness about the role of the event processing for the BPM, define the challenges and start establishing a research community around these two areas.
The workshop is organized by the active Working Group of the international Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) http://www.ep-ts.com/ whose goals are, among others, to:

• accelerate the development and dissemination of best practices for event processing and edBPM
• work with existing standards development organizations such as OMG, OASIS and W3C to disseminate and where necessary incubate a set of consistent standards in the areas of: event formats, event processing interoperability, event processing (meta) modeling and (meta) languages
• enhancements of BPMN- and BPEL-standards according to edBPM-oriented requirements.

The workshop will conclude with the discussion about the research challenges for Event processing and BPM in order to realize event-driven BPM.
The workshop might be of interest for the broader BPM community interested in extending/complementing BPM with more reactive capabilities. On the other side, for the EP community it would be an opportunity to get closer look on the requirements coming from BPM domain. In general, all interested in standardization issues in this domain will be welcomed.

Deadline paper submissions:  7 June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009
Camera-ready papers: 15 July 2009
Workshops: 7 September 2009

The following types of submission are solicited: - Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long. - Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be at most 6 pages long. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (Long Paper/ Short Paper).

For submission, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbpm09.

09:00 - 09:15	Introduction
09:15 - 10:30	Keynote Talk: Events, Rules and Processes: why you need all 3 (Paul Vincent) When you purchase a new mobile phone, you want to use it, and the services it provides, as soon as possible. Yet there are complex processes involved in getting you access to all these services. And what if the phone gets broken or lost on the way home from the store? Can those processes be immediately and carefully halted or postponed? We live in a complex, real-time world. Processes are ridden with exceptions. Customers require personalised processes, and businesses need to find value in their customers and make the correct decisions to match regulations and the need to make money. This is the new era of event-driven, adaptive, business processes and services. Paul Vincent is co-chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture Working Group and OMG Production Rule Representation. At TIBCO he is CTO for Business Rules and CEP, and relishes the convergence of events, rules, goals, processes and services to improve the agility, performance and value of IT systems. Paul has lived and worked in the UK and USA, mostly in rule-based systems in finance, government, telco and manufacturing, and has an MSc in Intelligent Systems and BSc in Computer Science. He contributes to the CEP blog at tibcoblogs.com/cep
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 1 An Event-Driven Modeling Approach for Dynamic Human-Intensive Business Processes. Nancy Alexopoulou, Mara Nikolaidou, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos and Drakoulis Martakos. Feasibility of EPC to BPEL Model Transformations based on Ontology and Patterns. Lucas Meertens, Maria-Eugenia Iacob and Silja Eckartz. External and Internal Events in EPCs: e2EPCs. Oliver Kopp, Matthias Wieland and Frank Leymann.
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30	Session 2 New Event-Processing Design Patterns using CEP. Alexandre Alves Health Care Process Mining with RFID. Wei Zhou and Selwyn Piramuthu. SLA Contract for Cross-layer Monitoring and Adaptation. Seyed Hossein Siadat and Mariagrazia Fugini.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30	Session 3 Towards an Executable Semantics for Activities using Discrete Event Simulation. Oana Nicolae, Gerd Wagner and Jens Werner
16:30 - 17:30	Plenary Discussion

Rainer von Ammon
CITT Regensburg/Germany
Konrad-Adenauerallee 30
D-93051 Regensburg, Germany
rainer.ammon (at) citt-online.com

Opher Etzion
IBM Research Lab in Haifa
OPHER (at) il.ibm.com

Heiko Ludwig
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
United States
hludwig (at) us.ibm.com

Adrian Paschke
Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin, Germany and RuleML Inc., Canada
AG-CSW (Corporate Semantic Web)
Institute for Computer Sciences
Free University Berlin
Königin-Luise-Str 24/26
14195 Berlin, Germany
paschke (at) inf-fu-berlin.de

Nenad Stojanovic
FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14
D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
nstojano (at) fzi.de
URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483

(invitations pending)

Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, Netherlands

Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK

Karim Baïna, ENSIAS, Morocco

Martin Bartonitz, Saperion AG, Germany

Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Djamal Benslimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France

Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Paul Buhler, Modus21, USA

Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA

Anis Charfi, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany

Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany

Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy.

Vincenzo D'Andrea, University Degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Jörg Desel, KU Eichstätt, Germany

Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria

Christian Fillies, Semtation GmbH, Germany

Albert Fleischmann, jCOM1 AG, Germany

Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany

Torsten Greiner, Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

Claude Godard, University Henri Poincaré Nancy, France

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia

Helge Heß, IDS Scheer AG, Germany

Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada

Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria

Gerti Kappel, TU Vienna, Austria

Anton Kramm, Valial Solution, Germany

Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA

Shailendra Mishra, Oracle, USA

Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy

Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Boris Petkoff, AccordSystems, Germany

Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany

Wolfgang Reisig, HU Berlin, Germany

Guy Sharon, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel

Harald Schoening, Software AG, Germany

Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany

York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany

Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores Universtiy, UK

Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale University, France

Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Paul Vincent, Tibco Software, USA

Christian Wolff, University of Regensburg, Germany

Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands