Nancy, France, January 21, 2005 -- The First International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 05) in Nancy, France, September 5, 2005. The URL for the conference is http://is.tm.tue.nl/bpmws2005/. The conference will be held in Nancy, France in conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005). Check http://bpm2005.loria.fr/.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Papers due: March 18, 2005

* Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2005

* Camera-ready copies: May 27, 2005

OBJECTIVE

Business Process Intelligence (BPI) is an emerging area that has been taking increasing importance during the last years as a consequence of the pressing need that companies are experiencing to improve the business processes underlying their business operations to better meet their business goals. A number of groups in different research areas are working on technologies to support different aspects of BPI, even if they do not call it that way. Many other names exist for such technologies, and there is a confusion among the exact meaning of names like BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), BOM (Business Operations Management), BPM (Business Performance Management), among others. The reality is that there is much overlap among techniques and tools supporting all these technologies. The realization of a workshop on BPI gives the opportunity to consolidate this field and start building a community that recognizes BPI as an area encompassing all these technologies with the end goal of improving business operations. Research papers covering among others the topics listed below are highly sought for this workshop. In addition, since BPI is an area that is still immature and controversial, position papers are also welcome. In particular, there are different opinions about whether BPI is just the application of known business intelligence and data mining techniques to the business process domain or there is something fundamentally new that requires new developments and research on new techniques. Other aspects of BPI like ultimate goals, level of automation, real-time readiness and business impact are good candidates for experience papers.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Areas of particular interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):

- Process discovery
- Prediction
- Exception handling
- Static optimization
- Dynamic optimization
- Adaptiveness
- Self-management
- Real-time
- Automation infrastructure
- Root cause analysis
- Business impact analysis
- Business process data warehousing
- Mining process execution data
- Analytics
- Performance monitoring
- Suitability of existing products
- Resource allocation

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). The BPI 05 web page will contain the most actual information. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/industry paper). Papers should be submitted electronically to one of the organization members Malu Castellanos (malu.castellanos@hp.com) or Ton Weijters (a.j.m.m.weijters@tm.tue.nl). Please e-mail a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. All papers will be reviewed by three PC members.

PROCEEDINGS

On-site proceedings and/or post-proceedings printed by Springer (the conference organization committee is in negotiation with Springer).

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will start with a keynote by our distinguished speaker Boualem Benatallah, followed by 25 minutes presentations of accepted papers organized by sessions according to the technologies involved in the work reported and the type of paper (research, experience, position). The workshop will close with an open discussion of all participants.

WORKSHOP OFFICERS

General Chairs

Malu Castellanos
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
malu.castellanos@hp.com

Ton Weijters
University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
A.J.M.M.Weijters@tm.tue.nl

Publication and Coordination Chair

Manolo Garcia-Solaco
CMU-West
manolo@andrew.cmu.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chairs

Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA
Ton Weijters, University of Eidhoven, The Netherlands

Program members (Tentative)

Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Fabio Casati, Hewlett-Packard, USA 
Francisco Curbera, IBM Watson, USA 
Jonhatan E. Cook, New Mexico State University, USA 
Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA 
Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany 
Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 
Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria 
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia Technologies, Austin, USA 
Mati Golani, Technion, Israel
Joachim Herbst, Daimler Chrysler, Germany
Ramesh Jain, Georgia Tech, USA
Frank Leymann,  University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Shlomit S. Pinter, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia   
Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia Research, USA
Pnina Soffer, Haifa University, Israel 
Min Tjoa  Vienna University of Technology, Austria 
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute at University of Potsdam 
Michael zur Muhlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA 

Malu Castellanos
Intelligent Enterprise Technologies Lab
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Rd, CA 94304
Tel: 650-857-3074 Fax: 650-852-8137
e-mail: malu.castellanos@hp.com 
url: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Malu_Castellanos