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<div><br>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
<p>First International Workshop on Traceability and Compliance of Semi-Structured Processes (TC4SP’10)</p>
<p>Held in Conjunction with BPM 2010,<br>The 8th International Conference Business Process Management</p>
<p>Hoboken, New Jersey, September 13, 2010</p>
<p><br>Background</p>
<p>Semi-structured processes are those business or scientific processes whose lifecycle is not <br>fully driven by a formal process model. Often, an informal description of the process is <br>available in the form of a process graph, flow chart or an abstract state diagram, but the <br>
execution is not completely controlled by a central entity (such as a workflow engine), if <br>at all. Instead, a variety of IT and human centric mechanisms are used, including email, <br>content management systems, web-based forms, custom applications or a combination <br>
thereof. </p>
<p>Examples of semi-structured processes are collaborative and case oriented processes as <br>well as most end to end line of business processes in commercial enterprises. Even when <br>there is a formally managed process in place, there are often exceptional situations that <br>
fall outside the purview of the workflow engine, making measuring compliance against <br>desired business & regulatory policies difficult. In spite of the widespread adoption of <br>BPM technology, semi-structured processes are commonplace in today’s commercial and <br>
governmental organizations. </p>
<p>Semi-structured processes, on the other hand, lack most of the advantages provided by <br>business process management systems (BPMSs). In particular, one major advantage of <br>process management is oversight through the inherent provenance of data and actions. <br>
Being able to answer the question 'Who did what when and how?' makes processes <br>transparent and reproducible, supports compliance monitoring and root cause analysis, <br>and provides the means for deep mining of activities and information.</p>
<p>The goal of this workshop is to investigate how to extend the oversight, traceability and <br>compliance management of traditional BPMSs to semi-structured processes through <br>techniques and algorithms to gather, correlate, analyze, and persist provenance data of <br>
processes execution. The workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers <br>from different communities - such as business process management, scientific workflow, <br>complex event and compliance monitoring, data and process mining - who share an <br>
interest in semi-structured processes. We encourage submissions that report the current <br>state of research in the area and share practical experiences.</p>
<p><br>Topics</p>
<p>The list of topics that are relevant to this workshop includes the following, but is not <br>limited to:</p>
<p>- Methodologies for capturing, querying and processing provenance, including <br>provenance of business process and scientific workflows.<br>- Management and implementation of compliance requirements.<br>- Provenance systems that enable traceability and compliance.<br>
- Compliance and performance monitoring of collaborative processes.<br>- Legal audit support and root cause analysis.<br>- Data and process mining of provenance traces.<br>- Emerging standards and provenance models.<br>- Management and retention of process traces.</p>
<p>Paper submission</p>
<p>Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers up to 12 pages reporting <br>completed research, and short papers up to 6 pages reporting on-going and preliminary <br>work. Authors are encouraged to plan for a demonstration of their work during the <br>
workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format at: <br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tc4sp2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tc4sp2010</a> . </p>
<p>The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in <br>Business Information Processing series and submissions should use LNBIP format <br>(see <a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911">http://www.springer.com/series/7911</a> for details).</p>
<p><br>Important dates</p>
<p>Submissions due (Closed): May 21, 2010<br>Notification: Monday, June 30, 2010<br>Camera ready papers due: July 25, 2010<br>Workshop Date: September 13 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA.</p>
<p>Organization</p>
<p>Francisco Curbera (IBM Research)<br>Juliana Freire (University of Utah)<br>Frank Leyman (University of Stuttgart)<br>Beth Plale (Indiana University)<br>Amit Sheth (Wright University)</p>
<p>Program committee</p>
<p>TBA<br></p>