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 3rd International Workshop on “Event-Driven Business Process Management”
of the ServiceWave conference series will be thematically extended as “From
edBPM to U-CEP”
co-located with ServiceWave/Future Internet Conference 2010
Ghent, Belgium from December 13-17, 2010
http://servicewave.eu/2010/
http://www.future-internet.eu/events/eventview/article/future-internet-conference-week.html
Introduction
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This workshop focuses on the
topics of connecting Internet of Services and Things with the management of
business processes and the Future and Emerging Technologies as addressed by
the ISTAG Recommendations of the European FET-F 2020 and Beyond Initiative.
Such FET challenges are not longer limited to business processes, but focus
on new ideas in order to connect processes on the basis of CEP with
disciplines of Cell Biology, Epigenetics, Brain Research, Robotics, Emergency
Management, SocioGeonomics, Bio- and Quantum Computing – summarized under the
concept of U-CEP.
In continuation
with the edBPM workshops at the 1st ServiceWave 2008 in Madrid and the 2nd
ServiceWave 2009 in Stockholm, this 3rd workshop is a thematical enhancement
considering the grand challenges defined by FET-F. FET-F initiative is
looking for radically new ideas, products and outcomes and U-CEP is a
contribution in order to bring together the relevant Future and Emerging
Technologies under one umbrella.
The term «Event-Driven Business Process Management»
(edBPM) was coined after the 1st CEP Symposion in Hawthorne/NY March 2006
with its first BPM/CEP panel. edBPM is
nowadays an enhancement of BPM by new concepts of Service Oriented
Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Software as a Service, Business
Activity Monitoring and Complex Event Processing. In this context BPM means a
software platform which provides companies the ability to model, manage, and
optimize these processes for significant gain. As an independent system,
Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a parallel running platform that analyses
and processes events. The BPM- and the CEP-platform correspond via events
which are produced by the BPM-workflow engine and by the – if so distributed
- IT services which are associated with the business process steps. Also
events coming from different event sources in different forms can trigger a
business process or influence the execution of the process or a service,
which can result in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events
in a particular context can be treated as a complex, business level event,
relevant for the execution of other business processes or services. A
business process – arbitrarily fine or coarse grained – can be seen as a
service again and can be "choreographied" with other business
processes or services, even between different enterprises and organisations.
This way, processes will be able to change their
control flow dynamically and very flexibly according to enterprise internal
or external internet services. For this aim a process execution standard like
BPEL (OASIS) has to be enhanced by integrating not only simple single,
process external events but also complex events. The workshop will discuss a
reference model for edBPM and use cases for different domains like telco,
banking, insurance, automotive, logistics, retail, entertainment etc.
First experiences in setting up edBPM-applications
have shown that the potential adopters have major problems to adequately
define and implement the underlying complex event patterns. Engineering of
such applications remains a laborious trial and error process with slow
development and change cycles. Therefore the availability of domain specific
reference models for event patterns is an urgent need businesses do have
nowadays. Adopters and decision makers need a clear understanding of the
alternative event patterns and their applicability to solve certain edBPM
problems. They should be able to choose the event pattern which is most
suitable for fulfilling the properties and objectives of the intended
application in a particular domain. The workshop will also discuss how to
find and model appropriate event patterns.
Internet of Service will change the way how the
business processes will be performed, by having them in the form of services
on the Internet. Consequently, this opens many challenges, but the most
important is managing the interaction between services in such an open
environment. Indeed, in such a networked services supply chain every service
produces many events that might be relevant for other services. It is clear
that all these influences, due to their ad-hoc nature, cannot be defined in advance
explicitly. Real-world reactivity requires a kind of publish-subscribe
mechanism, that enables pushing relevant events to interesting parties. It
means that the actual data flow (and not predefined workflows) will determine
the reactive nature of a Future Internet system.
The last part of the workshop will deal with the
Grand Challenges of what is summarized under the concept of “Ubiquitous
Complex Event Processing” and where the concept of Internet of Services is
enhanced according to the FET-F Initiative. Hardly anybody would have
forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today.
How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and
technologies will we use to produce goods, to do business, to learn, to live
and to communicate? To better explore the potential that these technologies
can offer, European Commission (Vice-Presidents Antonio Tajani, Neelie Kroes
and Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn) have launched a high-level expert
group on key enabling technologies. Key enabling technologies, such as U-CEP
in connection with nanotechnology, micro- and nanoelectronics including
semiconductors, Bio- and Quantum Computing, biotechnology and photonics, but
also brain research, cell biology, epigenetics, robot companions for
citizens, cyborgs, exocortex etc. will provide services in a much broader
sense. For the modeling and management of such new event types and patterns
as so called “smart dust” we will also need new modeling and execution
platforms. In this workshop we will start a first dialogue between experts
and visionary potential adopters.
What we
would like to achieve:
1) This workshop will extend edBPM as actually "commodity" from the
perspective of the scientific State of
the Art, although there are no real
adopters so far (and we are far from standards of course).
This workshop wants
- to extend edBPM
- as ed(B)PM (means: not all processes must be Business processes)
- to U-CEP (means: new application domains, new Services from the
"Universe")
2) The workshop should position U-CEP as an appropriate umbrella for new
medium-term Future Internet- and long-term FET-F
technologies/products/ideas.
3) The workshop should build the bridge between Future Internet and FET-F
technologies under the umbrella of U-CEP.
4) The workshop should bring together the high potential experts from the
related interdisciplinary domains in a fruitful environment and with concrete
results at the end. The workshop needs a minimum of 10 attendees (according
to the former ServiceWaves) and will have a maximum, set by the chairs of the
main conference and depending on the available rooms (maximum of 60 attendees
last time).
5) The organizing process of the workshop, started some months ago, should be
the driver for building a large and powerful community for the U-CEP based
ideas which could contribute to proposals of consortia before the deadline of
2 Dec 2010 for FI-PPP or FET-F or as a Coordination Action project for FET-F.
We would cordially invite you to discuss a strong ICT-approach for new
solutions in the sense of the European FI PPP and FET-Flagship Initiative.
Please find some information about "World Cafe" here:
http://www.theworldcafe.com/articles/cafetogo.pdf
http://www.theworldcafe.com/what.htm
You would be invited to contribute
- as a table host or guest for a specific subject named in the CfP and/or
- as an author of an extended abstract with a concrete U-CEP idea from the
interdisciplinary edBPM- or U-CEP scope, presented to the plenary or as a
table host.
We look forward to receive your comments.
Workshop Themes
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Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the prior described
problem domain or related to the chapters of the U-CEP textbook project
http://www.citt-online.com/downloads/Book-Ubiquitous%20Complex%20Event%20Processing.pdf
Event-driven BPM: Integrating Internet
of Services
- Integrating Complex Events in BPM
- Deterministically managing of a “concert” of collaborating business
processes based on complex events
- Non-deterministically managing of collaborating business processes
- Needed enhancements of modeling standards like BPMN
- Enhancements of execution standards like BPEL
- Enhancements of the NEXOF-Reference Architecture based on edBPM
Ubiquitous CEP: Concepts for the integration of a new kind of Services
- Do we need new modeling and design approaches
- Unified Modeling Language and enhanced notations/diagrams for modeling
complex dynamics
- New Agent Based Modeling approaches
- New application domains like Epigenetics, Cell
Biology, Brain Research,etc.
- U-CEP based robot companions for citizens, Cyborgs
- Weather/global catastrophe emergency
management
- New Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) and
U-CEP related product ideas like Smart Navigation Systems, Intelligent Cars,
U-CEP based SmartPhones, Exocortex products…
- Computational Socio-Geonomics and Social Simulation, e.g. in the
case of 10 billion human agents
- From energy to matter – Higgs Boson, Higgs field, quantum physics
- Super-Computing, Bio-Computing, Quantum-Computing
- Challenges for EPL from the perspective of Bio-Computing and
Quantum-Computing
Workshop Format
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The Workshop is planned as a full-day event, starting with an introduction in
edBPM and U-CEP, an edBPM showcase e.g. from the telco domain, world-café-method where each
table has a main focus from the outline of the U-CEP textbook, the host of a
table is an invited expert of the subject, the guests per table are the
attendees of the workshop, each table is working on the subject ideas e.g.
about new interdisciplinary U-CEP technology or product ideas, all guests
rotate through all tables. At the end, the hosts present the summarized
results.
A possible agenda:
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction in edBPM and U-CEP
9:30 – 10:30 Demonstration of edBPM show cases
10:30 - 13:00 Paper Presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Introduction of world café method, of the invited experts/hosts
and of the subjects of the tables
14:15 - 17:00 Working at the tables on the challenges of the U-CEP ideas
18:00 19:00 Presentations of the table results and Get-Together
Important Dates
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Deadline paper or extended abstract submissions: 1 November 2010
Notification of acceptance: 15 November 2010
Workshop: 13 December 2010
Camera-ready papers: 15 January 2011
Submission
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The workshop papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings that
will appear several months after the conference.
Therefore, the authors should be ready with their papers, in final form, one
month after the conference.
The length limit for the final version of the papers
is 8 pages (sharp).
Potential authors should submit full papers for
review (or at least a sizable extended abstract) before the event. We really
would like to have a high quality set
of publications in the post-conference proceedings, so please adhere to this
guideline.
For submission, please visit
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbpmucep2010
Organizing Committee
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Rainer
von Ammon
CITT Regensburg/Germany
Konrad-Adenauerallee 30
D-93051 Regensburg, Germany
rainer.ammon (at) citt-online.com
Pedro Bizarro
University of
Coimbra
Bizarro (at)
dei.uc.pt
Mani Chandy
Caltech Pasadena
mani (at) cs.caltech.edu
Opher Etzion
IBM Research Lab in Haifa
OPHER (at) il.ibm.com
Rüdiger Klein
Fraunhofer IAIS
Bonn/Birlinghoven
Ruediger.Klein@iais.fraunhofer.de
Bernhard
Seeger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Hans-Meerwein-Straße
D-35032 Marburg
Seeger (at) informatik.uni-marburg.de
Rudi Studer
FZI Research Center for Information
Technologies at the University of
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14
D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
studer (at) aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Program Committee
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Atta Badii, U Reading
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, U Toronto
Miriam Leis, TNO Netherlands
David Luckham, U Stanford
Jorge Marx-Gomez, U Oldenburg
Septimiu
Nechifor, Siemens Brasov
James Odell, CSC/OMG Anne Arbor MI
Themis
Palpanas, U Trento
Plamen Simeonov, Biomathics Berlin
Paul Vincent, TIBCO London
Proposed tables and table hosts of World Cafe
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Table 1: New Modeling and Execution Approaches for edBPM/U-CEP
in New Application Domains and New Applications
like Telco, Automotive etc.
Table host: Bernhard Seeger
Table 2: Complex Socio-Techno Systems and U-CEP
Table host: John Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Table 3: Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) and U-CEP
Table host: Miriam Leis
Table 4: Brain Research and U-CEP
Table host: Leslie Smith
Table 5: Epigenetics/Cell Biology/New Biology/Healthcare and U-CEP
Table host: Plamen Simeonov
Table 6: Cyborgs / Robotics and U-CEP
Table host: Rainer von Ammon
Table 7: Super/Bio/Quantum-Computing and U-CEP
Table host: tbd
General Hosts of World Cafe
tbd
http://www.citt-online.com/ucep-world-cafe-organisation.htm
Sponsors:
http://www.exensio.de/, exensio GmbH is an SME from Germany
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