Deadline Extension: June 11, 2012
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
The 5th Workshop on Business Process Management and
Social Software (BPMS2’12)
September 3, 2012 Tallinn Estonia
in Conjunction with
BPM 2012 - 10th International Conference on Business Process Management 11 June, 2012
Workshop Theme
Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in
society, organizations and economics. Social software has
created a multitude of success stories such as wikipedia.org and
the development of the Linux operating system. Therefore,
more and more enterprises regard social software as a means for
further improvement of their business processes and business
models. For example, they integrate their customers into
product development by using blogs to capture ideas for new
products and features. Thus, business processes have to be
adapted to new communication patterns between customers and
the enterprise: for example, the communication with the
customer is increasingly a bi-directional communication with
the customer and among the customers. Social software also
offers new possibilities to enhance business processes by
improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to
speed up decisions, etc. Social software is based on four
principles: weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and
mutual service provisioning.
. 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.
Social mechanisms such as reputation assure quality in social
production in an a posteriori approach by enabling a collective
evaluation by all participants.
. 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.
Workshop Goal
Based on the successful BPMS2’08, BPMS2’09, BPMS’10,
BPMS’11 workshops, the goal of the BPMS2’12 workshop is to
promote the integration of business process management with
social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the
theme.
Previous BPMS2 workshops
The BPMS2’08 workshop on BPM2008 in Milan had the 4th rank
in submissions from 8 workshops. Acceptance rate was 50 %. The
BPMS’09 attracted 13 submissions, from which 7 have been
accepted. The BPMS2’10 attracted 14 submissions, from which 8
have been accepted. The BPMS2’11 attracted 14 submissions,
from which 6 have been accepted. Both papers collaboratively
written by the BPMS2’08 and BPMS2’ 09 workshop authors have
been accepted for publication in the Journal of Software
Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice.
Workshop paper format
Position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. Position papers
that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or
unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be
welcome. Position papers will be assigned a 20-minute
presentation. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be
submitted, and will be assigned a 10 minutes presentation.
Workshop Topics
1. New opportunities provided by social software for BPM
- How can business processes fit to business models
based on the paradigm of social production?
- Which new possibilities for the design of business
processes are created by social software?
- How are trust and reputation established in business
processes using social software?
- Are there business processes which req1 uire sociality,
especially when they are not well defined (as
production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc?
- How do weak ties, social production, egalitarianism
and mutual service provisioning influence the design
of business processes?
- What is the impact on conceptual models for those
categories of business processes which are not well-
defined or that we do not wish to freeze using classical
business process enactment systems for instance?
2. Engineering next generation of business processes: BPM 2.0
- 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?
- Are there any similarities or relationships with process
mining techniques and also with workflow control and
role patterns?
- Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design,
Deployment, Performance, and Evaluation) are
affected the most by social software?
- How can BPM profit from using social software?
- Which types of social software can be used in which
phases of the BPM lifecycle?
3. Business process implementation support by social software
- Which kinds of social software can be used to
implement business processes?
- Which categories of business processes can profit from
social software?
- How does social software interact with WFMS or other
business process support systems?
- How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business
processes?
- What new kinds of business knowledge representation
are offered by social production?
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=bpms212
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.
Activities
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).
Important dates
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 1 June 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 2 July 2012
Camera-ready papers deadline: 30 July 2012
Workshop: 3 September 2012
Primary Contact
Rainer Schmidt
HTW Aalen
Business Information Systems
Germany
Rainer.Schmidt@htw-aalen.de
Phone: +49 7361 576 - 4241
Fax: + 49 7361 576 – 4316
Selmin Nurcan
University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne,
Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI)
France
Selmin.Nurcan@univ-paris1.fr
Phone: +33 53 55 27 13
Fax: + 33 53 55 27 01
Workshop Program Committee
Ilia Bider, IbisSoft AB
Jan Bosch - Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA
Marco Brambilla Politecnico die Milano, Dipartimento die Elettronica e Informaizione
Pietro Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Dragan Gasevic - Athabasca University, Canada
Chihab Hanachi - Toulouse 1 University, Toulouse, France,
Rania Khalaf, IBM T.J. Watson Research, Cambridge, USA
Ralf Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sai Peck Lee - University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Myriam Lewkowicz - Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany
Walid Maalej - Technische Universität München, Germany
Gustaf Neumann - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria
Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Erik Proper - CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Gil Regev - EPFL & Itecor, Switzerland
Sebastian Richly - TU Dresden, Germany
Michael Rosemann - Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Rainer Schmidt - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Miguel-Ángel Sicilia - University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Pnina Soffer - Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier - Graz University of Technology, Austria
Karsten Wendland - University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Christian Zirpins - Seeburger AG, Germany
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