CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on

Service-Oriented Business Processes Integration

(SOBPI'05: http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi)

Held in conjunction with

The 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing

(ICSOC 2005: http://www.icsoc.org)

December 12, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Proceedings Published as IBM Research Report RC23820 on Dec.12, 2005:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers?SearchView&Query=sobpi

Program Available on Dec.6, 2005: sobpi05-program.pdf

Early Proceedings Available on Nov.25, 2005: sobpi05-proceedings.pdf

MOTIVATIONS

A widely recognized trend in business and markets is the push towards the idea of companies and enterprises as networked organizations, which can gain profit from collaborations in the net, improving their flexibility, and reducing operational costs. This transformation requires the adoption of more collaborative working practices based on the integration of business processes within a wide community of business partners, suppliers, vendors, and public bodies.

In parallel to this trend, service oriented technologies are transforming the web from an infrastructure for sharing information to a place where the networked organizations can meet to integrate their business interests. Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is currently the most promising technology supporting the development and execution of business processes that are distributed among the most disparate entities, both within an organization and across organizational borders.

However, a practical industry-wide adoption of web services, to support the collaboration among networked organizations and the integration of their business process, is still an open challenge. This challenge can be addressed only by a tight integration of service-oriented development within new business models and new ways of management that are able to exploit new technological solutions. Moreover, web service technology is still emerging, and therefore their industry-wide adoption requires to inject research results within real industry practices, but, even more important, to drive research activities and roadmaps according to industrial needs.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and experts in business models and management and to promote cross-fertilization among their competencies, focusing on the usage of service oriented technologies to support the Business Processes Integration (BPI). The goal is to build bridges and convergences among the complementary views of experts in IT and service oriented technologies and experts in management, and the different approaches of academy and industry, to the problem of business processes integration. The emphasis of the workshop will be on the demonstration of the practical application of research results, and on the description of industrial case studies.

TOPICS

The workshop will seek contributions in the field of SOC for BPI. Papers can take the form of detailed case studies, technical white papers, new methodologies, new standard specifications, benchmarking models, or any other contributions demonstrating innovative applications of SOC for BPI. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

1. Development Methodologies and Tools:

1. Service/Process Modeling, Deployment, and Testing
2. Enterprise Architecture and Service/Process Definition
3. Model Driven Architecture and Service/Process Reuse
4. Process-Oriented Messaging Infrastructures
5. Distributed Business Process Management

1. Adoption of Advanced Technologies:

1. Intelligent Process Discovery and Integration
2. Service/Process Composition
3. Event Driven Architecture and Process Automation
4. Integration of Services, Messaging, and Connectors
5. Business Activity Monitoring and Quality of Service

1. Comparison of Implementation Platforms:

1. Business Process Management
2. Enterprise Service Bus
3. Business Services Networks

EVENT FORMAT

The workshop will be highly interactive, and commentators will be invited to foster discussion among participants with different backgrounds: each presentation will be followed by a short presentation of comments from a participant belonging to different areas of expertise, in order to bridge the ideas of the paper with a different viewpoint (e.g., each presentation on IT solutions will be followed by comments from industry experts and, vice-versa, presentations on case studies will be followed by comments on the research and technological challenges).

PUBLICATIONS

Proceedings will be published on the web while organizers make arrangements for both print and digital publication with a major publisher.

In addition, best papers will be submitted for consideration in these Special Issues:

• Special Issue on “Business Process Management: from Engineering to Execution”, Guest Editor: Prof. Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, International Journal of Information Technology and Management  (IJITM), ISSN (Online): 1741-5179 - ISSN (Print): 1461-4111, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=255

• Special Issue on “Service-Oriented Business Processes Integration”, Co-Editors: Stephane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, and Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), ISSN (Online): 1741-8771 - ISSN (Print): 1741-8763, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=115

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers submission:        September 30, 2005 – October 14, 2005

Notification:                  October 21, 2005 – October 31, 2005 – Nov.7, 2005

Camera ready:              November 11, 2005 – Nov.14, 2005

Workshop:                   December 12, 2005

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

REGISTRATION

For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Please register for the workshop at the ICSOC conference website (http://www.icsoc.org) before November 5, 2005.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please, direct all inquiries to the workshop co-chairs at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

CFP FOR CIRCULATION

TXT:  http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi/cfp.txt

PDF:  http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi/cfp.pdf

DOC: http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi/cfp.doc

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Marco Pistore, Univeristy of Trento, Italy

Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada

Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria at Como, Italy

Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, USA

Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA

Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France

Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA

Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia

Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada

Hannes Werthner, University of Innsbruck & EC3 Vienna, Austria

Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA

Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China