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Submission of Papers: August 25, 2014 Extended to August 30, 2014
Notification: September 15, 2014
Final Version Due: September 26, 2014
Workshop Date: November 17, 2014
All deadlines refer to 11:59 P.M. Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours).
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Nowadays, Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOAs) are widely used in all human activities,
from classical ones (management of supply chain, postal tracking delivery etc.) to very dynamic ones (health-care, home automation,
emergency management, etc.). Every aspect of a process/service involves a certain amount of knowledge, that can depend both on the complexity
of the domain of interest and on the modelling language used to represent the process/service itself. While traditional processes and services
behave in a way that is well understood, predictable and repeatable, in realistic environments traditional Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) modelling approaches are not able to model the whole knowledge of the domain of interest at design time, due to the high number of tasks/services to be represented and to their unpredictable nature. Furthermore, this knowledge can become obsolete at execution time, due to autonomous user decisions and to emergent events and contextual changes that make the structure of processes and services significantly less rigid.
To tackle the above issues, the use of techniques coming from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community could be leveraged to properly design, model and
manage business processes and services in realistic environments. Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques can be used for modelling
processes/services, for defining background knowledge (e.g., through ontologies) and for reasoning about them.
Scheduling provides methods for allocating dynamically tasks/services and resources, with the ability to adjust the allocation in response to
changing requirements and resource availability. Automated Planning provides capabilities for synthesizing new business processes and
repairing previously defined processes and services that are no longer suitable for a given situation. Furthermore, since many systems share the idea
of recalling and reusing concrete examples of changes adopted in the past, Case-based Reasoning can be exploited, to retrieve adaptation cases,
and to support the user in the overall adaptation task. When adaptation takes place, there is the need to verify the correctness and compliance
of the adapted process/service with respect to specific semantic constraints (on line or post mortem), and this can be done through model checking techniques.
Finally, machine learning techniques can be resorted to when the default process schema is not known, but has to be learnt from a set of
available execution traces.
The main focus of the AIBPS2014@SOCA workshop is to discuss novel and ongoing approaches, techniques and tools whose distinctive feature relies
in the role that AI technologies play for modelling, managing, enacting and analysing business processes and services.
We invite contributions on AI approaches (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Semantic technologies for data integration, Scheduling, Automated Planning,
Case-based Reasoning, Model Checking, Machine Learning, etc.) for the following non-exhaustive list of topics:
- Modelling languages, notations and methods for business processes and services
- Variability and adaptability of process and service models
- Resource management for business processes and services
- User-oriented aspects of business processes and services
- Declarative approaches for business processes and services
- Dynamic configuration; modelling by knowledge reuse
- Business process support architectures and platforms
- Service-oriented architectures
- Object-aware and Artifact-centric business processes
- Adaptive Case Management
- Run-time verification and monitoring
- Process mining
- Case studies, empirical evaluations and experimentations
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The workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers.
Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
All accepted papers will be published, potentially in a revised form, as part of the SOCA proceedings,
which will be included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author for each accepted paper should register to
the workshop and attend it so as to present the paper.
Paper Submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed in the Call of Papers.
Two kinds of submissions are possible :
**Research papers**
These papers are devoted to research in an advanced stage, to completely new research positions, and approaches in an early stage.
We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit their papers to present their valuable ideas, get feedback on their work and stimulate discussions
and collaborations among colleagues.
**Experience reports**
Experience reports are meant to present an activity that has been completed (or is being completed) in the context of a
real-life organization. The work should be driven by a practical need, and report on the identification or analysis of existing problems, on the
design/implementation of solutions, or on the assessment/evaluation of existing solutions. Work carried out with a pure research flavor does not
fall in this category, and should be submitted in the form of a research paper.
For both research papers and experience reports, the length of submitted work must not exceed 5 pages (including text, figures and references) in
the IEEE format. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format.
Only papers in English will be accepted. Information about the IEEE format can be found at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting
The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the covered topics (three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at
the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of workshop's topics. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibps2014soca
Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not conforming to the IEEE format or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop, will be rejected without
review. In order to submit your paper, you will first need to register into the system, if you are not registered already. You may submit an abstract first and
upload the actual paper at a later time (this is in fact strongly recommended). Furthermore, you may revise your submission any number of times before the
deadline. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may have.
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Andrea Marrella (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)
Nick van Beest (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Hyerim Bae (Pusan National University, Republic of Korea)
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Alessandro Russo (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)
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Marco Aiello - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Florian Daniel - University of Trento, Italy
Massimiliano de Leoni - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Claudio Di Ciccio - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Christoph Dorn - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Eirini Kaldeli - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Marcello La Rosa - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Alexander Lazovik - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Yves Lespérance - York University, Toronto, Canada
Fabrizio Maria Maggi - University of Tartu, Estonia
Massimo Mecella - Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Marco Montali - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stefania Montani - University of East Piedmont, Italy
Fabio Patrizi - Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Daniele Theseider Dupr・- University of East Piedmont, Italy
Mathias Weske - Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
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