The workshop WiVS "Flexible Workflows in Distributed Systems" will be held as part of the 17th Conference on "Communication in Distributed Systems 2011" (KiVS'11) in Kiel, Germany (March, 8-11, 2011). More information on KiVS is available at http://www.kivs11.de/).
Overview
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, concurrency 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 architecture (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.
Workshop 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 und 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 auf workflow models
- SOA and web services
- Dynamic service orchestration and choreography
- Workflow monitoring, self-control and automatic adaptation
- Similarity of workflows
- 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.
Papers should be submitted using the
EasyChair conference management system.
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).
Workshop Programme
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 | |
14:00-15:30 | Session 1 |
Concurrent Workflow Evolution Mirko Sonntag and Dimka Karastoyanova | |
Towards NFC-Aware Process Execution for Dynamic Environments Kristof Hamann, Sebastian Steenbuck and Sonja Zaplata | |
Beyond Flexibility — Workflows in the Perioperative Sector of the Healthcare Domain Robert Kühn, Markus Bandt, Sebastian Schick and Holger Meyer | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:30 | Session 2 |
Flexible Behaviour of Human Actors in Distributed Workflows Adwoa Donyina and Reiko Heckel | |
GPMN-Edit: High-level and Goal-oriented Workflow Modeling Kai Jander and Winfried Lamersdorf | |
Modeling Process-Related Duties with Extended UML Activity and Interaction Diagrams Sigrid Schefer and Mark Strembeck | |
17:30-18:00 | Open Discussion |
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
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Program Committee
- Birgit Burmeister, Daimler AG
- Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University
- Christian Guttmann, Monash University
- Benjamin Hirsch, TU Berlin
- Dimka Karastoyanova, Universität Stuttgart
- Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Daniel Moldt, Universität Hamburg
- Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal
- Markus Nuettgens, Universität Hamburg
- Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies
- Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Universität Wien
- Uwe Riss, SAP
- Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland
- Thomas Sauer, rjm Business Solutions GmbH
- Ali Sunyaev, Universität zu Köln
- Ingo Timm, Universität Trier
- Barbara Weber, Universität Innsbruck
- Christian Zirpins, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)