SBPM 2007

Workshop Theme

In the past year, Semantic Web technology has gained a substantial interest from both the Business Process Management (BPM) and the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) domain. This trend has been further fueled by the growing maturity of ontology languages, tools, and infrastructure, and by the engagement of major software vendors in semantic technology. Many researchers and practitioners are now working on how Business Process Management, in particular in service-oriented environments, may benefit from Semantic Web Services frameworks and other results from Semantic Web research. In general, there is substantiated hope that applying ontologies to core problems of BPM and PLM may bring a breakthrough in terms of agility in changing markets and the management of compliance with customer needs and regulatory requirements.

In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from various communities, namely the Business Process Management community on one hand and the Semantic Web / Semantic Web Services community on the other. In particular, we aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM and PLM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical products, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.

The workshop covers two themes:

For this theme, we invite contributions that address the more intelligent engineering, management, and execution of business processes through the use of Semantic Web technology. In particular, we expect and encourage contributions from the areas of business process engineering, management, and optimization, workflow, semantic web services, business rules, as well as respective standardization efforts.

For this theme, we invite contributions that show how the management of products-related data in single enterprises and value-chains can be improved by the more sophisticated formalisms, tools, and methodologies from the Semantic Web community. The aim is to make Semantic Web technology widely considered in the Product Lifecycle Management community, and to exploit lessons learned in the PLM community for advancement of Semantic Web research.

Topics

We are inviting contributions in e.g. the following research fields:

- Design time aspects of Semantic Business Process Management

- Practical and business aspects of Semantic Business Process Management

Submissions

We invite contributions on all theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Business Process Management and Semantic Product Lifecycle Management, in particular such addressing the real-world business and technology questions to be dealt with in realistic, useful applications for e-Business and e-Government.

Two categories of submissions are solicited: 1. Full papers (up to 12 pages) 2. Position statements (1-2 pages)

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.

For submission, please visit http://www.easychair.org/SBPM2007/

Important Dates

Organizing Committee

Martin Hepp
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Department of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 6465
E-Mail: mhepp@computer.org
URI: http://www.heppnetz.de and http://www.deri.at

Knut Hinkelmann
FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
School of Business
Riggenbachstrasse 16
CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
Phone: +41 62 286 00 80
E-Mail: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch
URI: http://knut.hinkelmann.ch

Dimitris Karagiannis
University of Vienna
Institute for Knowledge and Business Engineering
Bruenner Strasse 72
A-1210 Wien, Austria
Phone: +43 1 4277-39581
Email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at
URI: http://www.dke.univie.ac.at/

Rüdiger Klein
Fraunhofer IPK
Pascalstraße 8-9
D-10587 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: ruediger.klein@berlin.de

Nenad Stojanovic
FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14
D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49 721 9654-852
E-Mail: nstojano@fzi.de
URI: http://www.fzi.de/ipe/mitarbeiter.php?id=483

Program Committee

Registration

The workshop is open to all members of the relevant communities. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the workshop. All workshop participants must pay the ESWC 2007 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee.

Important: Participants must register for the ESWC 2007 conference and the workshop by May 20, 2007! After that date, only the more expensive on-site registration is possible.
The registration system is at http://www.eswc2007.org/onlineregistration.cfm

Workshop Schedule

09.00-10.30	Vision, Framework and Methodologies
	John Domingue: Semantic Business Process Management in the SUPER Research Project (Invited Presentation) [pdf]
09.00-09.30	Branimir Wetzstein, Zhilei Ma, Agata Filipowska, Monika Kaczmarek, Sami Bhiri, Silvestre Losada, Jose-Manuel Lopez-Cobo and Laurent Cicurel: Semantic Business Process Management: A Lifecycle Based Requirements Analysis (full paper, 20+10 min)
09.30-10.00	Florian Lautenbacher and Bernhard Bauer: A survey on Workflow Annotation & Composition Approaches (full paper, 20+10 min)
10.00-10.15	Tobias Buerger: Putting Business Intelligence into Documents (position paper, 10+5 min)
10.15-10.30	Open Discussion: SBPM - Vision, Framework and Methodologies
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-13.00	Target Applications, Showcases and Proof-of-Concept
11.00-11.30	Rainer Schmidt, Christian Bartsch and Roy Oberhauser: Ontology-based representation of service processes and their compliance requirements (full paper, 20+10 min)
11.30-11.45	Kioumars Namiri and Nenad Stojanovic: A semantic-driven Approach for Internal Controls Compliance in Business Processes (position paper, 10+5 min)
11.45-12.00	Irene Celino, Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Gernot Zeissler, Michael Oppitz, Federico Facca and Stefan Zoeller: Semantic Business Processes Analysis (position paper, 10+5 min)
12.00-12.15	Daniela Feldkamp, Knut Hinkelmann and Barbara Thönnsen KISS - Knowledge Intensive Service Support: An Approach for agile process management (position paper, 10+5 min)
12.15-13.00	Open Discussion: Target Applications and Business Value of SBPM (45 min)
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-16.00	Ontologies for Semantic Business Process Management
14.00-14.30	Joerg Nitzsche and Daniel Wutke An Ontology for Executable Business Processes(full paper, 20+10 min)
14.30-15.00	Oliver Thomas and Michael Fellman Semantic EPC: Enhancing Process Modeling Using Ontology Languages(full paper, 20+10 min)
15.00-15.30	Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue Towards an Ontology for Process Monitoring and Mining(full paper, 20+10 min)
15.30-15.45	Witold Abramowicz, Agata Filipowska, Monika Kaczmarek and Tomasz Kasczmarek Semantically enhanced Business Process Modelling Notation(position paper, 10+5 min)
15.45-16.00	Open Discussion: An Ontology Stack for SBPM(15 min)
16.00-16.30	Coffee Break
16.30-18.00	Tools and Infrastructure
16.30-17.00	Zhilei Ma, Branimir Wetzstein, Darko Anicic and Stijn Heymans: Semantic Business Process Repository (full paper, 20+10 min)
17.00-17.15	Marin Dimitrov, Alex Simov, Sebastian Stein and Mihail Konstantinov: A BPMO based Semantic Business Process Modelling Environment(position paper, 10+5 min)
17.15-17.30	Knut Hinkelmann, Simon Nikles and Lukas von Arx: An ontology based modelling tool for knowledge-intensive services(position paper, 10+5 min)
17.30-17.45	Open Discussion: Tools and Infrastructure for SBPM(15 min)
17.45-18.00	Closing Remarks

Contact

To contact the OC members, please find the email addresses above.

Accepted Papers

Full papers

Position Papers

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published in the CEUR WS series as follows:

Martin Hepp, Knut Hinkelmann, Dimitris Karagiannis, Rüdiger Klein, Nenad Stojanovic (Eds.):
Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007), held in in conjunction with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 251, ISSN 1613-0073, 2007.
http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-251/ (not yet on-line)

A PDF-version of the proceedings is available here.

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