Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is emerging as a promising paradigm
for integrating software applications within and across organisational
boundaries. In this paradigm, independently developed and operated
applications are exposed as (Web) services which are then
interconnected using a stack of Web-based standards including SOAP,
WSDL, UDDI, WS-Security, etc. While the technology for developing basic
services and interconnecting them on a point-to-point basis has
attained a certain level of maturity and adoption, there are still many
open challenges when it comes to managing interactions with complex
services or managing interactions involving large numbers of services.
There exist strong links between Business Process Management (BPM) and
SOC. On the one hand, BPM may rely on SOC as a paradigm for managing
resources (especially software ones), describing process steps, or
capturing the interactions between a process and its environment. On
the other hand, a service may serve as an entry point to an underlying
business process, thereby inducing an inherent relation between the
service model and the process model. Also, services may engage in
interactions with other services in the context of collaborative
business processes. This workshop will bring together researchers and
practitioners in the areas of BPM and SOC with the aim of furthering
the fundamental understanding of the relations between business
processes and services.
Workshop theme and topics
The main theme of the workshop is "Linking Business Processes and
Services". Contributions are sought on topics related to this theme
including but not limited to:
Service-oriented workflow
Web services and groupware
BPM for the service industry
Business service networks
Process-based service description
Process-based service contracting
Process-based service provision
Process-based service integration
Service-oriented application integration
Service interface processes
Service coordination and transactions
Service and process conversation
Middleware for service-based process management
Architectures for service-based BPM solutions
Web services usage and benefits in BPM
Integration and mediation with Web services for BPM
Service invocation and usage
Monitoring and management of Web services for BPM
BPM and Quality of Service
BPM and Service Level Agreements
Format of the workshop and publication
The workshop will last one full day and will consist of a keynote
speech (to be announced),
peer-reviewed paper presentations, as well as a closing panel. After
the workshop and subject to a final quality check, papers presented at
the workshop will be included in the BPM workshops post-proceedings to
be published as a volume of Springer's LNCS series. In addition,
authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions
of their contributions to a special issue of the
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management.
Important dates
Submission of papers: 15 April 2005 (new deadline)
Notification: 25 May 2005
Final version due: 20 June 2005
Workshop: 5 September 2005
Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of up to 5000 words in
PDF or Word format (PDF preferred). It is recommended (but not
mandatory) that submissions be formatted using
Springer's LNCS stylesheets.
To submit a paper, please follow these instructions:
Use the abstract
submission interface to provide the main information on your paper.
You will be given an id/password which must later be used to
submit the paper, so be careful to remember
it.
Once an abstract has been submitted, you can access the paper
submission interface to upload the file of your complete paper.
Note that there are no separate deadlines for abstract and paper
submission. The abstract can be submitted just before submitting the
paper.
Enquiries regarding the submission process should be directed to Marlon
Dumas <m.dumas@qut.edu.au>.
Workshop co-chairs
Marlon Dumas (m.dumas@qut.edu.au)
Centre for IT Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001
Australia
Schahram Dustdar (dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at)
Distributed Systems Group
Information Systems Institute
Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Wien
Austria
Frank Leymann (frank.leymann@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
University of Stuttgart
Universitätsstr. 38
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Program committee
Karim Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco
Alistair Barros, SAP Research, Australia
Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA
Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Edmond, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Marie-Christine Fauvet, University of Grenoble, France
Jose Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel
Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
Rania Khalaf, IBM Research, USA
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Jeff Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Jianwen Su, UCSB, USA
Samir Tata, INT Evry, France
Mathias Weske, University of Postdam, Germany
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jian Yang, Macquaire University, Australia
