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Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support:

Creating and maintaining the fit between business processes and support systems
(BPMDS'04)

In Conjunction with: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering 
(CAiSE*04) Riga, June 2004

Workshop theme
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Business process orientation is considered to be an efficient way for 
companies and organizations to survive and flourish in the ever faster 
changing business world. The process-oriented way of working is difficult, 
if ever possible, to introduce without a properly designed business process 
support (BPS) system. This leads to a need to create and maintain a fit 
between the business and its BPS system, as well as between the business 
and its environment. Creating and maintaining such a fit is termed 
co-development of the business and the BPS system. It may be viewed as 
having two main phases, of first creating the fit and then maintaining it.

The focus of the creation phase is on concurrently designing business 
processes and business software applications. It involves RE activities as 
well as development and implementation activities of both business 
processes and BPS systems. All the involved activities relate to business 
as well as to technological issues. The maintenance phase is about the 
parallel evolution of the business and its BPS system.

This workshop is meant as a forum for discussing issues related to creating 
and maintaining the fit between business processes and BPS systems. It is 
the fifth in a series of international workshops on business process 
modeling, development, and support, designed as a meeting place for both 
researchers and practitioners in the fields of business development and 
business application software development.

The full version of this call for papers is available at: 
http://www.ibissoft.se/bpmds04/BPMDS04.htm The Web page of the CAiSE*04 
conference is: http://www.cs.rtu.lv/caise2004/

Topics of interest
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The objective of the workshop is to discuss the main issues of creating and 
maintaining the fit between business processes and BPS. The following 
topics are of particular interest:

-       The role of models and modeling in the co-development of business 
processes and BPS
-       Tools, techniques, and conceptual frameworks for analyzing, 
creating and maintaining the alignment of business processes, business 
structure and BPS systems
-       Change management for business processes, business structure and BPS
-       Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) in terms of both business 
and IT
-       Software development and maintenance for creating and maintaining 
the fit between business processes and BPS systems
-       Business process modeling in changing environments
-       Enterprise architecture frameworks
-       The effect of co-development on the requirements for BPS systems 
and vice versa
-       Concurrent and/or coordinated development processes

However, any other topic related to the fit between business processes and 
BPS is also of interest. Discussion will be facilitated by the existence of 
a mailing list and an interactive web site, established as a result of the 
last workshop (REBPS’03). The list, whose members are the participants of 
the workshop, has served for discussions and exchanging ideas since then, 
and will continue to do so towards BPDMS’04.

Submissions
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Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper, 
maximum 5 pages, related to one or more of the main topics. The submitted 
papers will be reviewed by the organizers. The selection will consider 
relevance to the main topics as well as potential to generate relevant 
discussions.

Being a basis for discussion, a position paper does not necessarily need to 
include answers to the problems described above. A position paper that 
raises the relevant questions, describes successful or unsuccessful 
practice, or experience will be welcome as well.

All accepted position papers will be published on our website before the 
workshop, so that everybody can get some knowledge about the problems that 
are important for other participants. In addition, accepted papers will be 
published by CAiSE*04 organizers in the workshop proceedings volume. The 
volume will be distributed to workshop attendees.

To facilitate the interaction between the participants, the organizers will 
try to compile a list of questions that are of common interest for the 
group. The list will be published on our website and the mailing list well 
in advance of the workshop. Any proposals of what should be included in the 
list will be appreciated.

Expected results
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Based on the discussions, a working document will be produced to summarize 
the results and outline the promising directions in the field. The 
pre-workshop interaction will assist in focusing the discussion during the 
workshop towards producing the working document.

After the workshop, the workshop materials together with a selection of the 
best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of the 
Requirements Engineering Journal.

Important dates
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Submission deadline: March 22 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 12 2004
Submission of camera-ready version: April 26 2004

Papers should be submitted by email as Word or PDF documents to 
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Organizers
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Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden, [log in to unmask]

Gil Regev, School of computer and communication sciences, Ecole 
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, [log in to unmask]

Pnina Soffer, MIS department, Haifa University, Israel. [log in to unmask]


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Ilia Bider              Email:  [log in to unmask]
Director R&D            phone +46 8 15 10 10
IbisSoft ab, Sweden     http://www.ibissoft.se