CALL FOR PAPERS 


Second International Workshop 1st International Workshop on Traceability and 
Compliance of Semi-Structured Processes (TC4SP.11) 


Held in Conjunction with BPM 2011, 
The 9th International Conference Business Process Management 


August 28th to September 2nd 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France 


Background 

Semi-structured processes are those business or scientific processes whose lifecycle is not 
fully driven by a formal process model. Often, an informal description of the process is 
available in the form of a process graph, flow chart or an abstract state diagram, but the 
execution is not completely controlled by a central entity (such as a workflow engine), if 
at all. Instead, a variety of IT and human centric mechanisms are used, including email, 
content management systems, web-based forms, custom applications or a combination 
thereof. 

Examples of semi-structured processes are collaborative and case oriented processes as 
well as most end to end line of business processes in commercial enterprises. Even when 
there is a formally managed process in place, there are often exceptional situations that 
fall outside the purview of the workflow engine, making measuring compliance against 
desired business & regulatory policies difficult. In spite of the widespread adoption of 
BPM technology, semi-structured processes are commonplace in today.s commercial and 
governmental organizations. 

Semi-structured processes, on the other hand, do not benefit from most advantages 
provided by business process management systems (BPMSs) yet are more process 
oriented than is complex events processing (CEP). In particular, one major advantage of 
process management is oversight through the inherent provenance of data and actions. 
Being able to answer the question 'Who did what when and how?' makes processes 
transparent and reproducible, supports compliance monitoring and root cause analysis, 
and provides the means for deep mining of activities and information. 

The goal of this workshop is to investigate how to extend the oversight, traceability and 
compliance management of traditional BPMSs and CEP systems to semi-structured 
processes through techniques and algorithms to gather, correlate, analyze, and persist 
provenance data of processes execution. The workshop aims to bring together 
practitioners and researchers from different communities . such as business process 
management, scientific workflow, complex event and compliance monitoring, data and 
process mining . who share an interest in semi-structured processes. We encourage 
submissions that report the current state of research in the area and share practical 
experiences. 


Topics 

The list of topics that are relevant to this workshop includes the following, but is not 
limited to: 

-    Methodologies for capturing, querying and processing provenance, including 
provenance of business process and scientific workflows. 
-    Management and implementation of compliance requirements. 
-    Provenance systems that enable traceability and compliance. 
-    Compliance and performance monitoring of collaborative processes. 
-    Legal audit support and root cause analysis. 
-    Data and process mining of provenance traces. 
-    Emerging standards and provenance models. 
-    Management and retention of process traces. 
-    Correlation analysis of process events for semi-structured processes 
-    Technology, methods and tools for exploring and understanding semi-structured 
processes across multiple systems and services 
-    Methods and tools for analysis of conversation-oriented and social interactions of 
people in the context of semi-structured processes 


Paper submission 

Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers up to 12 pages reporting 
completed research, and short papers up to 6 pages reporting on-going and preliminary 
work. Authors are encouraged to plan for a demonstration of their work during the 
workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format at: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tc4sp2011 . Papers should follow the same 
LNBIP formatting guidelines as defined by the BPM 2011 conference 
(http://bpm2011.isima.fr/cfp.html ). 


Important dates 

Submissions due (Closed): Monday, May 22, 2011  - Midnight HAST (Hawaiian Standard Time)
Notification: Friday, July 1, 2011 
Camera ready papers due: Friday , August 5, 2011 
Workshop Date: August 29, 2011 


Organization 

Francisco Curbera (IBM Research) 
Frank Leyman (University of Stuttgart) 
Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad (HP Labs) 
Beth Plale (Indiana University) 

Program committee 

Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Geetika T. Lakshmanan, IBM Research, USA
Axel Martens, IBM Research, USA
Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK
Florian Rosenberg, IBM Research
Satya Sahoo, Wright University, USA
Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona