englishOverview
Management of business processes is of major importance for today’s enterprises, operating in increasingly dynamic environments. The technical support for business processes remains a complex challenge, due to their manifold characteristics, and requires a workflow-based execution infrastructure at the IT side. Besides traditional aspects like distribution, concur-rency and resource management, especially the dynamics of the execution context has to be taken care of. In this respect, the current research in this area more and more dismisses the initial assumptions of traditional process-based approaches that processes – once deployed and instantiated – are kept basically unchanged and are executed always as planned. Instead the flexibility of workflows gains considerable attention, whereby the dynamics to be supported ranges from properties of the technical environment (e.g. in the area of mobile applications) up to completely dynamic ad-hoc processes of knowledge workers.
The area of flexible workflow management represents an interesting overlap for research approaches from different disciplines of distributed systems, such as service oriented archi-tecture (SOA) / web services, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, and enterprise application integration. Thus, the workshop WiVS is as an integrating forum for researchers from the named areas and fosters the discussion and knowledge transfer among participants by the common incitement of flexible workflows. Moreover, the workshop targets technologies as well as applications in order to bring current research and practice closer together.
Topics
The workshop covers topics from the area of workflows and distributed systems. A special focus of the workshop is on flexibility and on systems deployed in dynamic contexts. Topics for contributions include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following:
Flexibility and Dynamics in Workflows
- Modeling and execution of flexible workflows
- Adaptive / agile workflows
- Multi-agent systems for workflow control
- Mobile workflows
- Ad-hoc workflows and collaborative workflows
- Workflows and business rules
- Workflows und event-based systems
- Provenance, versioning and evolution of workflow models
- SOA and web services
- Dynamic service orchestration and choreography
- Workflow monitoring, self-control and automatic adaptation
- Similarity of workflows
Applications of Flexible Workflow-based Systems
- Controllability of flexible workflow-based systems
- Benchmarks und evaluations
- Comparisons to alternative technologies
- Innovative application areas for flexible workflow-based systems
- Practical experiences
Submissions
We invite submissions of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted according to the style of the Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of Software Science and Technology) journal and not exceed 12 pages including figures, references, etc. Templates can be obtained from: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/
The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the KiVS 2011 conference as a special issue of the ECEASST Journal (ISSN 1863-2122).
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2010 NEW 2010-11-22
Notification: November 28, 2010 NEW 2010-12-19
Camera Ready Copy Due: December 19, 2010 NEW 2011-01-14
KiVS Conference: 2011-03-08 to 2011-03-11
Organization
Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg
Peter Dadam, Universität Ulm
Mirjam Minor, Universität Trier
Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg
Questions to the workshop organizers should be directed to: wivs2011@easychair.org.
The workshop website can be found here.