Call for papers

Workshop Topics

Program

Organization

An improved alignment of the IT infrastructure of an enterprise with its business needs and requirements is a trend that has dominated and driven innovations in information technology over the past couple of years. Model-driven development techniques are used to translate business needs directly into IT solutions. A special area of model-driven engineering, often denoted as business-driven development, focuses on generating SOA-based IT solutions from business process models.

The MDE4BPM workshop is about the application of Model-Driven Engineering to Business Process Management. It focuses on research problems that arise when the model-driven engineering and development methodology is applied to automate the whole lifecycle of business process modeling artifacts. As an example, we are interested in research contributions attacking the problems of automatically mapping high level business process models to executable IT-level workflows. Also, the opposite problem is relevant: so that the impact of changes of IT-level workflows can be analyzed back in the context of the original business-level models.

Registration

Registration to MDE4BPM08 is now open through the main BPM2008 conference website (select Authors Registration or Attendee Registration).

Preliminary Proceedings

Preliminary proceedings of MDE4BPM08 are now available.

Program

9:00-10:30	Session I: Business Driven Development
	9:10-9:50	Business to IT Transformations Revisited Sebastian Stein, Stefan Kühne and Konstantin Ivanov
	9:50-10:30	A Model-Driven Approach to Implementing Coordination Protocols in BPEL Oliver Kopp, Branimir Wetzstein, Ralph Mietzner, Stefan Pottinger, Dimka Karastoyanova, and Frank Leymann.
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session II: Tool Demonstration
	11:00-11:45	Towards Transformations from BPMN to Heterogeneous Systems Tobias Küster and Axel Heßler
	11:45-12:30	Business Process Modelling with Continuous Validation Stefan Kühne, Heiko Kern, Volker Gruhn and Ralf Laue
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session III: Model Synchronization
	14:00-14:40	On the Formal Generation of Process Redesigns Mariska Netjes, Hajo A. Reijers and Wil M.P. van der Aalst
	14:40-15:20	Translating BPMN Models into UML Activities María Agustina Cibrán
18:30	Welcome reception at the Galleria Meravigli

Call for Papers

Download the textual MDE4BPM Call for Papers (ASCII, 4KB) and the visual MDE4BPM Call for Papers (PDF, 99KB)

Workshop Topics

The workshop seeks original, high-quality contributions in the following areas:

• Applications of MDE+BPM techniques and methodologies
• Business Driven Development
• Business Process Model Transformation, Abstraction and Refinement
• Code Generation Techniques for Business Process Model Execution
• Compilation of Business Process Models
• Change Detection and Merging for Process Models
• Execution Monitoring of Generated Process Models
• Governance of Process-centric Software Projects
• High-level Business Process Monitoring and Analysis
• Life cycle Management of Business Process Models
• Model-Driven Business Process Management Systems
• Optimization of Compiled Business Processes
• Pattern-based Editing and Refactoring of Business Process Models
• Synchronization of Models across different Abstraction Levels
• Tools and Environments supporting the MDE Lifecycle of Business Processes

Workshop Format and Proceedings

In adition to the opening keynote, the workshop features regular papers (up to 12 pages, in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing format), which will be published in post-workshop proceedings. The best workshop paper will be selected to be included in a special issue of the "Software Process Improvement and Practice" Journal.

Workshop Program Chairs

• Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland

Workshop Program Committee

• Alistair Barros, SAP
• Steen Brahe, Danske Bank, Denmark
• Christoph Bussler, MercedSystems, Inc, USA
• Monique Calisti, Whitestein, Switzerland
• Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research, Germany
• Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
• Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
• Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Roy Grønmo, SINTEF, Norway
• Jochen Kuester, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
• Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Jan Mendling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany

Contact Information

For more information and inquiries about the workshop, please contact Cesare Pautasso (cesare.pautasso at computer.org);