IJBPIM Special Issue: Deadline Approaching

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DEADLINE APPROACHING:  ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FEB. 1ST
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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal on Business Process Integration and Management
Special issue on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes
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DESCRIPTION

The capability of rapidly adapting systems and processes to an
ever-changing environment to leverage existing resources has become a
crucial factor of an organization's agility. The traditional approach to
process management is only partially appropriate to this new context,
and calls for the advent of new, dynamic business processes. Broad
business policies or narrower constraints of technical nature make
dynamic business process particularly suited to a declarative approach
to their modelling and design.

This special issue will be an opportunity to promote research on any
aspect broadly touching dynamic and declarative approaches to business
process management and serviceoriented architectures. A particular
interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical
issues. To this end, evaluated contributions addressing the open
problems, case studies, applications and evaluations of well-established
formalisms in new contexts or any other work assessing the practical
significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of
concrete examples and situations, will be particularly welcome.

TOPICS

We solicit high-quality contributions with consolidated and thoroughly
evaluated research results in the area of declarative and dynamic
business processes that are worthy of archival publication in the
International Journal of Business Process Integration Management. The
topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Dynamic/declarative business process modelling
- Implementation issues for dynamic/declarative processes
- Tools for dynamic/declarative processes
- Real-world use cases of dynamic/declarative business processes
- Business rules and policies
- Rule driven business process engines
- Business + technical requirements for dynamic/declarative processes
- Dynamic/declarative model specification
- Mathematical foundations of dynamic/declarative business processes
- Formal models of dynamic/declarative business processes
- Monitoring of dynamic/declarative business processes
- Validation and model checking of dynamic/declarative business
  processes
- Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for dynamic and
  declarative business processes;
- Service-oriented architectures and dynamic/declarative business
  processes
- Interoperability for dynamic/declarative business processes
- Semantic Web and ontologies and declarative and dynamic
  business processes
- Collaboration and declarative/dynamic business processes

GUEST EDITORS

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Tobias Graml, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sylvain Halle, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Roger Villemaire, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

Colin Atkinson, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Thomas Bauer, Daimler AG, Group Research and Advanced Engineering,
Germany
Andrew Berry, Deontik, Australia
Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Watson, USA
Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
Sanjay Chaudhary, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
Communication Technology, India
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA
Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University, USA
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Jana Koehler, IBM Zürich, Switzerland
Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle, Universität Ulm, Germany
Florian Rosenberg, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jennifer Sampson, National ICT Australia
Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: Feb. 1st, 2009
Paper submission: Feb. 15th, 2009
Author notification: June 15th, 2009
Publication (tentative): Oct-Dec 2009 issue

SUBMISSION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please contact Sylvain Halle (shalle@acm.org) or visit:
http://www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp2008/journal

IJBPIM is published by Inderscience Publishers
ISSN (Online): 1741-8771 - (Print): 1741-8763
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