BPMS2'12 (BPM and Social Software)
BPMS2'12 (BPM and Social Software) - Call for papers
BPMS2 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fift International Workshop on Business Process Management and Social
Software (BPMS2)
in conjunction with BPM 2012
September 3d, 2012, Tallinn, Estonia
Papers submission deadline: June 1st, 2012
http://www.bpms2.org/
Organizers:
Rainer Schmidt HTW Aalen, Germany
Selmin Nurcan University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
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SCOPE
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Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society,
organizations and economics. Social software has created a multitude of
success stories such as wikipedia.org and the development of the Linux
operating system. Therefore, more and more enterprises regard social
software as a means for further improvement of their business processes and
business models. For example, they integrate their customers into product
development by using blogs to capture ideas for new products and features.
Thus, business processes have to be adapted to new communication patterns
between customers and the enterprise: for example, the communication with
the customer is increasingly a bi-directional communication with the
customer and among the customers.
Social software also offers new possibilities to enhance business processes
by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up
decisions, etc. Social software is based on four principles:
weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service
provisioning.
Weak ties
Weak-ties are spontaneously established contacts between individuals that
create new views and allow combining competencies. Social software supports
the creation of weak ties by supporting to create contacts in impulse
between non-predetermined individuals
Social Production
Social Production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from
independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this.
By this means it is possible to integrate new and innovative contributions
not identified or planned in advance. Social mechanisms such as reputation
assure quality in social production in an a posteriori approach by enabling
a collective evaluation by all participants.
Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism is the attitude of handling individuals equally. Social
software highly relies on egalitarianism and therefore strives for giving
all participants the same rights to contribute. This is done with the
intention to encourage a maximum of contributors and to get the best
solution fusioning a high number of contributions, thus enabling the wisdom
of the crowds . Social software realizes egalitarianism by abolishing
hierarchical structures, merging the roles of contributors and consumers and
introducing a culture of trust.
Mutual Service Provisioning
Social software abolishes the separation of service provider and consumer by
introducing the idea, that service provisioning is a mutual process of
service exchange. Thus both service provider and consumer (or better
prosumer) provide services to one another in order co-create value . This
mutual service provisioning contrasts to the idea of industrial service
provisioning, where services are produced in separation from the customer to
achieve scaling effects.
Up to now, the interaction of social software and its underlying paradigms
with business processes have not been investigated in depth.
Therefore, the objective of the workshop is to explore how social software
interacts with business process management, how business process management
has to change to comply with weak ties, social production, egalitarianism
and mutual service, and how business processes may profit from these
principles.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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1. New opportunities provided by social software for BPM
- How can business processes fit to business models based on the paradigm of
social production?
- Which new possibilities for the design of business processes are created
by social software?
- How are trust and reputation established in business processes using
social software?
- Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they
are not well defined (as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc?
- How do weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service
provisioning influence the design of business processes?
- What is the impact on conceptual models for those categories of business
processes which are not well-defined or that we do not wish to freeze using
classical business process enactment systems for instance?
2. Engineering next generation of business processes: BPM 2.0 ?
- Do we need new BPM methods and/or paradigms to cope with social software?
- Is there an influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and
mutual service provisioning on BPM methods themselves?
- Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques
and also with workflow control and role patterns?
- Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Performance, and
Evaluation) are affected the most by social software?
- How can BPM profit from using social software?
- Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM
lifecycle?
3.Business process implementation support by social software
- Which kinds of social software can be used to implement business
processes?
- Which categories of business processes can profit from social software?
- How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process
support systems?
- How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes?
- What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social
production?
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SUBMISSION
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of
the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted.
Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to
buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer
than 6 pages. 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 (regular paper/position
paper/tool report).
Please use Easychair for submitting your paper:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpms212
The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main
topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant
discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a
post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in
their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series.
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EXPECTED RESULTS
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All papers will be published on workshop wiki (www.bpms2.org) before the
workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important
for other participants. A blog will be used to encourage and support
discussions. The workshop will consist of long and short paper
presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. The workshop report
will be created collaboratively using a wiki. A special issue over all
workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress).
The BPMS208 workshop on BPM2008 in Milan had the 4th rank in submissions
from 8 workshops. Acceptance rate was 50 %. The BPMS209 attracted 13
submissions, from which 7 have been accepted. The BPMS210 attracted 14
submissions, from which 8 have been accepted. The BPMS211 attracted 14
submissions, from which 6 have been accepted.
The two papers collaboratively written by the BPMS208 and BPMS209 workshop
authors (see below) have been accepted for publication in the Journal of
Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (including
Software Process: Improvement and Practice):
S. Erol, M. Granitzer, S. Happ, S. Jantunen, B. Jennings, A. Koschmider, S.
Nurcan, D. Rossi, R. Schmidt, P. Johannesson. Combining BPM and Social
Software : Contradiction or Chance ? Special issue of the Software Process:
Improvement and Practice Journal on "BPM 2008 selected workshop papers",
Volume 2, Issue 6-7, pp. 449-476, October-November 2010.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smr.460/abstract
G. Bruno, F. Dengler, B. Jennings, R. Khalaf, S. Nurcan, M. Prilla, M.
Sarini, R. Schmidt, R. Silva. Key challenges for enabling Agile BPM with
Social Software. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and
Practice, incorporating Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Special
Issue on BPM'09 selected workshop papers, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 297-326,
June 2011.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smr.v23.4/issuetoc
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: June 1, 2012
Author notification: July 2, 2012
Camera-ready: July 30, 2012
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden
Arndt Borg
Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA Marco Brambilla - Politecnico di
Milano, Dipartimento die Elettronica e Informaizione, Italy Pietro
Fraternali - Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento die Elettronica e
Informaizione, Italy Dragan Gasevic - School of Computing and Information
Systems, Athabasca University, Canada Chihab Hanachi - Toulouse 1
University, France, Monique Janneck - Luebeck University of Applied
Sciences, Germany Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Ralf
Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Germany Sai Peck Lee - University of Malaya, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia Myriam Lewkowicz - Universite de Technologie de Troyes,
France Claudia Loebbecke - University of Cologne, Germany Walid Maalej -
Technische Universität München, Germany Gustaf Neumann - Vienna University
of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Selmin Nurcan - University
Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany Erik Proper - CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Gil Regev -
EPFL & Itecor, Switzerland Sebastian Richly - Dresden Universiy of
Technology, Germany Michael Rosemann - Faculty of Information Technology,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia Rainer Schmidt - University
of Applied Sciences, Germany Miguel-Ángel Sicilia - University of Alcalá,
Madrid, Spain Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel Karsten Wendland -
University of Applied Sciences, Germany Christian Zirpins - Seeburger AG,
Germany
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