Introduction

Ontology-based semantics have shown, as documented in five previous iterations of the SBPM workshop, a high degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains. A key source of problems in the "pre-semantic" BPM domain is in the representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data.

In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. Additionally we encourage visionary papers regarding the future of semantics for BPM.

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Workshop Themes

Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the prior described problem domain.

  • Compliance and Corporate Governance
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Supply Chain Management
  • ERP Customizing and Maintenance
  • Human Resources Management
  • E-Procurement
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Enterprise Application Integration
  • Modeling and Systems Analysis
  • Corporate Knowledge Management
  • Collaborative Process Management
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Real-time Enterprise
  • Future Internet

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Workshop Format

The Workshop is planned as a full-day event, including a keynote, paper presentations, lightning talks, demos, posters, and a moderated, open discussion with the clear goal of agreeing upon a research roadmap for Semantic Business Process Management research, by taking into account new challenges, described earlier.

Agenda (tentative):

09:00 - 09:15 Warm up
09:15 - 09:30 6-years of the Semantic BPM workshop: Why and What, Nenad Stojanovic
09:30 - 10:30 Sensor Networks and Data-intensive-driven workflow, Oscar Corcho, (invited talk, title pending)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Information Resource Recommendation in Knowledge Processes, Tadej Štajner, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik
11:30 - 12:00 Querying Semantically Enriched Sensor Observations, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Hoyoung Jeung, Oscar Corcho
12:00 - 12:30 Service Adaptation Recommender in the Event Marketplace: Conceptual View, Yiannis Verginadis, Ioannis Patiniotakis, Nikos Papageorgiou, Roland Stuehmer
12:30 - 13:00 Modeling event-driven interaction in informal collaborative Processes, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Sinan Sen, Jun Ma
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Advanced Semantic Business Process Analysis: Combining Knowledge Engineering and Complex Event Processing, Carlos Pedrinaci (invited talk)
15:30-16:00 Semantic Technologies for the Project Management Life Cycle Improvement, Birgit Dippelreiter, Michael Pöttler
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Event-processing driven ad-hoc BPM, Jun Ma, Yongchun Xu
17:00-17:15 Concluding remarks, Nenad Stojanovic

For the keynote, we aim at a high-profile speaker, who will give a rather visionary view on the role of Future Internet for BPM and vice versa.

For the moderated community discussion, we will have senior experts from our Program Committee and Experts from an industrial background. A clear objective of that discussion is to yield a first draft of a respective research agenda.

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Important Dates

Deadline paper submissions:  1 April 2011
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2011
Camera-ready papers: 24 April 2011
Workshops: 29 May 2011

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Submission

We invite the submission of

  • full papers (5-8 pages),
  • discussion papers and experimental contributions (2-4 pages),
  • demo descriptions (1-3 pages), and
  • poster abstracts (1-2 pages).

Selected paper from the workshop will be published as a Springer edition (LNCS volume) with the "ESWC 2011 Workshop Highlights". All submissions must be formatted according to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair Conference Management System at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpm2011 .

Important: Clearly indicate the type of the contribution, e.g. as sub-title.

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Organizing Committee

Nenad Stojanovic
FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
nstojano at fzi dot de
URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483

Barry Norton
Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
barry dot norton at kit dot edu

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Program Committee

  • Agata Filipowska
  • Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros
  • Andreas Abecker
  • Carlos Pedrinaci
  • Darko Anicic
  • Florian Lautenbacher
  • Jan Mendling
  • John Domingue
  • Jorge Cardoso
  • Juhnyoung Lee
  • Ljiljana Stojanovic
  • Liliana Cabral
  • Markus Nüttgens
  • Michel Klein
  • Oliver Thomas
  • Oscar Corcho
  • Roxana Belecheanu
  • Tommaso Di Noia
  • Witold Abramowicz
  • York Sure
  • Yuxiao Zha

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Related Workshops

Five previous editions of the SBPM workshop have been successfully delivered at the European Semantic Web Conference and the expanded aims of the Extended Semantic Web Conference seem ideal for the SBPM field as this also expands. Since many PhD topics have arisen, as a result of projects like SUPER and FUSION, the intention is to be particularly supportive of young researchers and the one day programme will include two invited talks from seniors who will provide mentoring to younger researchers' results during the day, presented in 20 minute talks. SBPM 2011 will be the sixth event in a series of very successful workshops at ESCW 2006 in Budva, ESWC 2007 in Innsbruck, ESWC 2008 in Tenerife and ESWC 2009 and ESWC 2010 in Crete:

  • ESWC 2010: 5th international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, May 30, 2010, Crete, Greece
  • ESWC 2009: 4th international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, June 1, 2009, Crete, Greece
  • ESWC 2008: 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, June 2, 2008, Tenerife, Spain
  • ESWC 2007 Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management, June 7, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
  • ESWC 2006 Workshop on Semantics for Business Process Management 2006, June 11-14, 2006, Budva, Montenegro.

In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 alike, the SBPM workshop attracted more than 30 participants and was described by most as extremely valuable for bringing together the respective communities. Information about previous SBPM editions can be found at:

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