Dear Colleague, We will be grateful to you for submitting your work to and also for advertising the 6th International Workshop on BPM and Social Software (BPMS2 2013) in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Process Management and for inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. The goal of the workshop is to promote the integration of business process management with social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the theme. The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMS2'2013 Web site : http://www.bpms2.org/ All BPM'2013 conference "workshop papers" will be published in Springer LNBIP post-proceedings. Best regards, Rainer Schmidt, Selmin Nurcan BPMS2 2013 organisers -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- BPMS2 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2) in conjunction with BPM 2013 August 26th, 2013, Beijing, China Papers submission deadline: May 25th, 2013 http://www.bpms2.org/ Organizers: Rainer Schmidt – HTW Aalen, Germany Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France ------ SCOPE ------ Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It enables social business that has created a multitude of success stories. More and more enterprises use social software to improve their business processes and create new business models. Social software is used both in internal and external business processes. Using social software, the communication with the customer is increasingly bi-directional. E.g. companies integrate customers into product development to capture ideas for new products and features. Social software also creates new possibilities to enhance internal business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc.. • 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. Reputation based mechanisms assure quality following an a posteriori approach. • 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. ------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- The workshop will discuss three topics. Social Business Process Management, Social Business and Big Data in Social Business. Social Business Process Management is the use of social software to support one or multiple phases of the business process life cycle. 1. Social Business Process Management (SBPM) - Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Operation, and Evaluation) can profit the most by social software? - 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? - How are trust and reputation established in business processes using social software? - How do weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning influence the design of business processes? - How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process support systems? - What is the impact on conceptual models for those categories of business processes which are not well-defined ? 2. Social Business: Social software supporting business processes - Which new possibilities for the support of business processes are created by social software? - Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they are not predictable (as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc? - How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes? - Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM lifecycle? - What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social production? 3. Big Data in Social Busines - Which data created with social software can be used to support business processes? - Which categories of business processes can profit from big data ? - Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques and also with workflow control and role patterns? ----------- SUBMISSION ----------- 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=bpms213 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. ----------------- EXPECTED RESULTS ----------------- 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 two papers collaboratively written by the BPMS2’08 and BPMS2’09 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 ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Paper submission: May 25, 2013 Author notification: June 25, 2013 Camera-ready: July 23, 2013 ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------ Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden Jan Bosch - Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA Marco Brambilla - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Pietro Fraternali - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dragan Gasevic - School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany Chihab Hanachi - Toulouse 1 University, France Ralf-Christian Härting, Hochschule Aalen, Germany Monique Janneck - Luebeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Ralf Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany Sai Peck Lee - University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Myriam Lewkowicz - Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, 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 - Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, The Netherlands Sebastian Richly, TU Dresden, Germany 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Selmin NURCAN Maître de Conférences HDR / Associate Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne has been running for the last 15 years, a highly successful Masters programme (SIC - apprenticeship) that is open for the 4th year to Foreign students http://www.iksem.org http://mastersic.univ-paris1.fr/ http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-prix-de-linnovation/universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne-master-information-and-knowledge-systems-engineering-and-management-iksem.html http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-management-des-systemes-dinformation/universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne-master-systemes-d-information-et-de-connaissance.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th edition on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS'2013) in conjunction with CAISE'2013 *BPMDS is a WORKING CONFERENCE in conjunction with CAISE*. 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