[PlanetKR] I: CFP - KiBP 2012 - 1st International Workshop of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes

[Andrea Marrella]

Apologies for multiple postings

 

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1st International Workshop on Knowledge-intensive Business Processes
(KiBP'12)

WWW: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~kibp2012/

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Co-located with the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012).

 

Important Dates

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Submission of Papers:  April 1, 2012

Notification:          April 30, 2012

Final Version Due:     May 14, 2012

Workshop Date:         June 15, 2012

 

Location

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Sapienza - Università di Roma

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale

via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy

 

Nowadays, Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) are widely used in all human
activities, ranging from classical ones (management of supply chain, postal
tracking delivery etc.) to very dynamic ones (health-care, emergency
management, etc.). Every aspect of a business process involves a certain
amount of knowledge, that can depend both on the complexity of the domain of
interest and on the modeling language used to represent the process itself.
Some processes behave in a way that is well understood, predictable and
repeatable: the tasks are discrete and the control flow is straightforward. 

Recent discussions illustrate the increasing demand in the solutions for
knowledge-intensive processes. A knowledge-intensive process is one in which
the people/agents performing such process are involved in a fair degree of
uncertainty. This is due to the high number of tasks to be represented and
to their unpredictable nature, or to a difficulty to model the whole
knowledge of the domain of interest at design time. In realistic
environments, for example, actors lack important knowledge at execution time
or this knowledge can become obsolete during the process progressing. Even
if each actor (at some point) has a perfect knowledge of the world, it could
not be certain of its beliefs at later time points, since tasks by other
actors may change the world without those changes being perceived.
Typically, a knowledge-intensive process can not be modeled sufficiently by
classical, static process models and workflows. There is still a lack of
maturity in some respect, i.e., a lack of a semantic associated to the
models or an easy way to reason about such semantic.

 

The main focus of this workshop is to discuss about how the use of
techniques that came from different fields, such as Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Knowledge Representation (KR), Business Process Management (BPM),
Service Oriented Computing (SOC), etc., can be used jointly for improving
the modeling and the enactment phase of a knowledge-intensive process. The
purpose is to devise interesting approaches that can still achieve the goals
of understanding, visibility and control of these emergent processes.

 

The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge-intensive Business Processes
(KiBP’12)  will be held as part of the workshop program of the 2012
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning International Conference (KR'12) in
Rome, Italy, during June 2012.

 

The KiBP workshop is focused on the design, evaluation and comparison of
process improvement techniques, tools and methods, in which aspects of
knowledge representation, reasoning, creation, organization, retrieval,
transfer, refinement, reuse, revision, and feedback play a key role. 

We invite contributions on the following aspects of knowledge representation
and modeling for processes (not exclusive): 

 

- Modeling languages, notations and methods for knowledge representation and
management in business processes

- Variability and adaptability of business process models for
knowledge-intensive tasks through automatic techniques

- Resource management for knowledge-intensive business process modeling and
support

- User-oriented aspects of knowledge-intensive business processes

- Verification and validation of knowledge-intensive business processes

- Dynamic configuration; modeling by knowledge reuse

- Knowledge-intensive business process support architectures and platforms

- Machine learning for business process mining and monitoring

- Artifact-centric business processes

- Case studies, empirical evaluations and experimentations

 

The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers and an
additional keynote speaker. Papers should be submitted in advance and will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted
papers will be published, potentially in revised form, as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings. 

Best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a forthcoming
(i.e., Spring 2013) issue of JoDS - Journal on Data Semantics
(http://lbd.epfl.ch/Springer/). At least one author for each accepted paper
should register for the workshop and plan to present the paper.

 

Paper Submission

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of
the areas listed in the Call of Papers.

Two kinds of submissions are possible :

 

Full research papers. For this kind of papers, the length of submitted work
should not exceed 12 pages, including all text, figures, references and
appendices.

 

Work-in-progress papers. This kind of papers are devoted to completely new
research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation
that arises 

because of, for instance, new methods and tools or new types of emerging
challenges. The work-in-progress papers offer a great venue to show new work
that is in 

an early stage and can benefit from discussion with colleagues. We encourage
practitioners and researchers to submit their work-in-progress to present
their valuable 

ideas, get feedback on their work and stimulate discussions and
collaborations among colleagues. For this kind of papers, the length of the
submitted work 

should not exceed 8 pages, including all text, figures, references and
appendices.

 

 

Only papers in English will be accepted. Papers should be formatted in
Springer LNCS format. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be
found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

 

The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the
topics covered (three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be
indicated at the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of
workshop's topics. Papers should be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair using the following address
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kibp2012

 

Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not conforming to the
LNCS format or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop, will be
rejected without review. In order to submit your paper, you will first need
to register into the system, if you are not registered already. You may
submit an abstract first and upload the actual paper at a later time (this
is in fact strongly recommended). Furthermore, you may revise your
submission any number of times before the deadline. Please feel free to
contact the organizers with any questions you may have.

 

PC Chairs

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Massimo Mecella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 

Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University, Australia)

 

Local Organizers

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Andrea Marrella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Massimo Mecella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)

 

Proceedings Chair

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Andrea Marrella (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)

 

Program Committee

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Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 

Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) 

Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy) 

Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy) 

Massimiliano de Leoni (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) 

Riccardo De Masellis (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Claudio Di Ciccio (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Christoph Dorn (University of California, Irvine) 

Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Marie-Christine Fauvet (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)

Paolo Felli (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) 

Marcello La Rosa (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 

Yves Lesperance (York University, Toronto, Canada) 

Niels Lohmann (University of Rostock, Germany) 

Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) 

Selmin Nurcan (Université Paris 1, Sorbonne, France) 

Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany) 

António Rito Silva (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) 

Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Alessandro Russo (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 

Rainer Schmidt (University of Aalen, Germany) 

Pnina Soffer (University of Haifa, Israel) 

Roman Vaculin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.) 

Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Petia Wohed (Stockholm University, Sweden)

 

Keynote Speaker

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Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia). A further keynote speaker will
be announced very soon.

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