CfP Workshop onBPM 2019 (co-located BPM 2019, Wien Austria)

[Stefano Borgo]

Call for papers onBPM 2019
https://onbpm2019.fbk.eu/home

The Ontological and Foundational Perspectives in Business Process 
Modelling (onBPM) workshop is focused on foundational and ontological 
investigations of business processes, business process models, and 
business process modelling.

Despite that BPM literature providing some business process definitions, 
as well as a number of different business process modelling languages, 
several important aspects are still missing: a clear characterisation of 
what a business process is, what its key elements are, what sets 
business processes apart from other process entities, and a clear 
ontological analysis of business process model development.

The goal of this workshop is to explore these missing aspects and to 
foster discussion on ontological foundations in business process 
modelling. onBPM aims at investigating the nature of business processes, 
what distinguishes and characterizes it from other kinds of process, the 
role of time and temporal representation in business process models, the 
dependence between real-world business processes and the corresponding 
models, the “implicit” business process elements that should be taken 
into consideration in the models, and the impact of ontological 
decisions in the modelling aspects.

The target audience of the workshop includes researchers and academics 
from a variety of fields including BPM, formal and foundational 
ontology, applied philosophy, and conceptual modelling, as well as 
business practitioners.

*Submissions*
The contributions that will be considered are:
- full papers, following the LNCS format (maximum page limit is 12 pages 
including bibliography).
- short papers, following the LNCS format (exactly 6 pages including 
bibliography) presenting preliminary ideas, discussions and challenges 
on the topics of the workshop.

*Topics of interest:*
- Ontological choices in developing business process models
- Characteristics of business processes compared to other
processes/operations (e.g., workflows, business rules, strategies, services)
- Ontological analysis of business process model elements (e.g., goals, 
participants, dependences, temporal aspects, commitments)
- Foundational aspects of business process modelling languages
- Characteristics of business process models with respect to models 
described in other notations
- Business process ontologies based on ontological analyses
- Ontology-based methodologies and tools that support modellers

*Submission Instructions*
Papers should be written in English, following the LNCS format: 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs
The submissions will be reviewed by the organisers and the PC members.
Papers should be uploaded via EasyChair following this link: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=bpm2019

*Publication*
All the workshop papers of onBPM workshop will be published by Springer 
as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in 
Business Information Processing (LNBIP).

*Key dates*
Workshop papers submission deadline: May 24, 2019
Workshop papers notification deadline: June 28, 2019
Workshop camera-ready papers deadline: July 12, 2019
Workshops onBPM: September 2, 2019

*Organisers*
Greta Adamo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Genoa, Italy
Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy