Dear colleagues,


The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business processes and their IT support. One of the major aims is to discuss and to learn about concepts and techniques to enhance the ability to engineer software systems closer the business requirements.

Since 2012, a special issue is organised per year in the International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) with the extended papers invited from the BPMDS working conference.

The papers should be submitted through the conference management system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2021
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Happy and Healty New Year !

Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Adriano Augusto, University of Melbourne, Australia



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The 22nd International Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'2021)

held in conjunction with CAiSE’2020

28-29 June 2021, Melbourne, Australia

Submission deadline: March 19th, 2021

http://www.bpmds.org

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SPONSORS:
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- Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). BPMDS is linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE conference series since 2011.
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1).
- Springer. BPMDS proceedings are published in a Springer LNBIP proceedings volume, "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling”, since 2009.


The Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) working conference has been held for more than two decades, dealing with and promoting research on BPMDS, and has been a platform for a multitude of influential research papers. In keeping with its tradition, the working conference covers a broad range of theoretical and application-based research on BPMDS.

The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business processes and their IT support. One of the major aims is to discuss and to learn about concepts and techniques to enhance the ability to engineer software systems closer the business requirements.

This year’s topic theme “Business Process Improvement” originates from the opportunities unleashed by the advancements in the fields of machine-learning and artificial intelligence, which enable the transition from the traditional process improvement led by human-experts to new process improvement methods based on intelligent software and systems, with the goal of reducing the effort and time required to achieve process improvements.

The topic theme is mandatory for Idea Paper submissions. All other submissions are free to address any topic related to the fields of Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, which include but are not limited to:

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SUBMISSION TOPICS :
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BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (topic theme)
- Methods / Conceptual frameworks for process improvement
- Process improvement through AI and machine-learning
- Case-studies focused on process improvement
- Robotic process automation for process improvement
- Enhancing creativity in business processes
- Process improvement in the context of digital transformation

The topic theme is mandatory for Idea Paper submissions, all other submissions are free to address any topic related to the fields of Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, among which are:


METHODS
- Theoretical foundations for analysis and modeling of business processes
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Methods for the process of process modeling and its optimizations
- Social information systems and their applications
- Process mining
- Business Process Development
- Business process change management and governance issues

MODELS AND NOTATIONS
- Standard and non-standard perspectives on business processes especially concerning data incorporation and analysis
- Meta-model and notation extensions
- New modeling languages and notations
- Domain-specific modeling languages
- Reference models
- Business process modeling in cyber physical environments

BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
- New paradigms and architectures for business process executions, such as object-aware, data-intensive
- Location and context-dependence of business processes
- Cross-organizational processes
- Data-intensive business processes

BUSINESS PROCESS SUPPORT
- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business processes
- Context-aware work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs. control support in business processes
- Privacy preserving, social responsibility, ethical aspects
- New platforms such as blockchains and smart contracts


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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper Abstract Submission - March 15th 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Submission deadline - March 19th 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance - April 19th 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Camera-ready papers due - April 28th 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Conference dates - 28-29 June, 2021, Melbourne

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SUBMISSIONS:
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Prospective conference participants are invited to submit a paper that concerns the topics mentioned above and all other topics related to business process modeling, development and support. Three categories of submissions are welcome:

(1) *Full research papers* (technical papers or empirical evaluation papers) should report results in an advanced stage, including at least partial evaluation.

(2) *Experience reports* present work completed or being completed in the context of a real-life organization. The work should have some practical goal, and should essentially present lessons learnt that can be applicable in a generalized context.

(3) I*dea papers* related to the focus theme “Business Process Improvement” should address completely new research positions or approaches, demonstrating the shortcomings of current methods, tools, meta-models, etc.

Full papers with up to 15 pages long or short papers with up to 8 pages can be submitted to these categories. The work must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.

Papers should be submitted in Adobe PDF format. Submissions should use the Springer LNBIP/LNCS formatting templates. Submissions should follow the guidelines in https://sites.google.com/view/bpmds/bpmds2019/submission and adhere to the formatting instructions at https://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html

Please submit your paper in PDF format through the conference management system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmds2021.

Note that the topic theme “Business Process Improvement” is suggested to make this year’s edition of BPMDS a special forum for this theme, however, it is mandatory for “idea paper” submissions only.


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PUBLICATIONS:
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Accepted submissions will be presented during the working conference, and full papers will be published in a Springer LNBIP proceedings volume (joint with EMMSAD), "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling”, as the twelve previous years since 2009 (LNBIP volumes 29, 50, 81, 113, 147, 175, 214, 248, 287, 318, 352, 387). Accepted short papers will be published in an online proceedings volume.

After the BPMDS’21 conference, selected papers can be published as extended versions in a special issue of the International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM, www.sosym.org).

The previous special issues are: BPMDS’20 in SoSyM in progress, BPMDS’19 in SoSyM in progress, BPMDS’18 in SoSyM in progress, BPMDS’17 in SoSyM, papers on line, printed issue coming soon, BPMDS'16 in SoSyM, vol. 18 , issue 2, April 2019; BPMDS'15 in SoSyM, vol. 17, issue 2, May 2018; BPMDS'14 in SoSyM, vol. 16, issue 3, July 2017; BPMDS'13 in SoSyM, vol. 15, issue 2, May 2016; BPMDS'12 in SoSyM, vol. 14, issue 3, July 2015; BPMDS’11 in IJISMD, vol. 4, issue 2, 2013; BPMDS’10 selected paper in REJ, vol. 17, issue 2, 2012; BPMDS’09 in IJISMD, vol. 2, issue 2, 2011; BPMDS’08 in JSME vol. 24, issue 3, 2012; BPMDS'07 in IJBPIM, vol. 4, issue 2, 2009; BPMDS'06 in IJBPIM, vol. 3, issue 1, 2008; BPMDS'05 in SPIP, vol. 12, issue 1, 2007; BPMDS'04 in SPIP vol. 10, issue 4, 2005 & REJ vol. 10, issue 3, 2005, BPMDS'02 in BPMJ, vol. 11, issue 6, 2005.


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BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
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The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business processes and their IT support. This is one of the keystones of information systems theory beyond short-lived fashions. The continued interest in this topic on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the success of the past BPMDS events, and their promotion from a workshop to a working conference. The BPMDS series has produced twenty-one events from 1998 to 2020. From 2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference linked to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering) on an ongoing basis. The basic principles of the BPMDS series are:

1.    BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the areas of business development, and business applications (software) development.
2.    The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than presentations.
3.    Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers.
4.    Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue of an international journal.


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ORGANIZERS and PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
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Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Adriano Augusto, The University of Melbourne, Australia


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STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Ilia Bider – Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pnina Soffer  – University of Haifa, Israel


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INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:
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Ilia Bider, Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden
Pascal Negros, Arch4IE, France
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Adriano Augusto, University of Melbourne, Australia
Saïd Assar, Institut-Mines Télécom Paris, Business School, France
Judith Barrios Albornoz, University de Los Andes, Venezuela
Karsten Boehm, FH KufsteinTirol - Univ. of Applied Science, Austria
Cristina Cabanillas, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Claudio di Ciccio, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Amin Jalali,  Stockholm University, Sweden
Anna Kalenkova, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany
Sander J.J. Leemans, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Henrik Leopold, Kühne Logistics University, Germany
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Michael Möhring, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Pascal Negros, Arch4IE, France
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Polytechnica de Valencia, Spain
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Colette Rolland, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Stefan Schönig, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, CNAM, France
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Irene Vanderfeesten , Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Han van der Aa, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Moe Thandar Wynn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jelena Zdravkovic, Royal University of Technology, Sweden
Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany