To reduce costs as well as allow a more flexible provisioning of their business processes (BPs) and services, organisations are continuously thinking to move to the cloud. However, most of them do not have the appropriate expertise towards performing this move. As such, there is a need for platforms which are able to realise respective methods, techniques and algorithms that provide the appropriate cloud-based support level to these organisations. This support level should enable organisations to check which parts of their business processes should be moved to the cloud as well as cater for bridging the gap between the business and IT level. Moreover, it should assist in the allocation, publishing, execution, monitoring, evaluation and adaptive provisioning of these business processes, thus catering for their appropriate management based on the four main lifecycle activities of BP design, allocation, execution and evaluation. By moving and offering business processes in the cloud, the notion of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is realised which is projected to become quite profitable for the organisations participating in its value chain which can play the role of Brokers, BPaaS management platform operators, or software developers. Thus, BPaaS not only caters for migrating existing BPs in the cloud but can also become a novel exploitation product in the cloud stack that will further boost the adoption of cloud computing. 

The workshop invites research papers that deal with any subject that is relevant for the realisation of the BPaaS vision according to either business, technical or both perspectives. Research and development work on facilitating any kind of management for BPs in the cloud is more than welcome as well as innovative work that attempts to deal with the well-known business-to-IT alignment problem. Research that advances the state-of-the-art in cloud computing in areas related to BP management (e.g., cloud orchestration) are considered quite relevant. Novel cloud platforms supporting the advertisement and management of business process or workflows are also relevant. Finally, papers focusing on conveying practical knowledge or important issues related to moving or managing BPs in the cloud are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines

• Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed below.
• Papers must not exceed 15 pages including references according to the Springer LNCS format. LNCS Templates can be found at: http://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636
• Papers can be submitted electronically from the easychair submission system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmcloud2017

List of Topics

• Cloud-based Business Process Migration:
  • Novel methods and techniques on cloud migration
  • Novel methods and techniques for moving business processes in the cloud
• Cloud-aware Business Process Modelling:
  • Cross-Layer Metric Models (from business to infrastructure layer)
  • KPI Modelling Languages & Ontologies
  • (Semantic) Cloud Service Description Languages
  • Goal-Oriented Modelling of Business Processes
  • Hybrid Business Process Modelling
  • Semantic Business Process Languages and Ontologies
  • Business Process Modelling
• BPaaS Design & Alignment:
  • Business process to workflow alignment
  • Semantic Composition of business services
  • BPaaS Discovery & Composition
  • BPaaS & Business Service Model Repositories
  • BPaaS Design Methodologies and Methods
  • BPaaS Design Environments & Tools
• BPaaS Allocation:
  • Cloud Service Matchmaking
  • Cloud Service Selection
  • Semantic Cloud Service Discovery and Selection
  • Cloud-based Workflow Concretisation
  • Cross-layer Cloud Service Selection & BPaaS Deployment Reasoning
  • Business to technical non-functional requirements mapping
  • BPaaS Deployment Description
  • BPaaS Allocation Environment & Tools
• BPaaS Execution:
  • Cross-Layer Cloud Service Monitoring
  • Cross-Cloud Service Monitoring
  • Cross-Layer BPaaS Adaptation
  • Adaptive BPaaS Execution
  • Cloud Service Orchestration
  • Cloud-based Workflow Management
  • Semantic Logging
  • BPaaS Execution Environments & Tools
• SLA-based BPaaS Management:
  • Semantic SLA Description
  • Hierarchical SLAs
  • SLA Mapping between hierarchy levels
  • SLA Management Frameworks
• BPaaS Evaluation:
  • KPI Analysis & Drill-Down
  • (Conceptual) Analytics
  • (Semantic) Process Mining
  • Business Intelligence Knowledge Extraction Algorithms & Tools
  • Best BPaaS Deployment Discovery
  • Adaptation & Deployment Rules Derivation
  • Data Extraction & Linking for BPaaS Evaluation
  • BPaaS Evaluation Environments & Tools

Committees

Program Committee

• Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Claudia-Melania Chituc, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Marco Comuzzi, Unist, South Korea
• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Vincent Emeakaroha, University College Cork, Ireland
• Ana Juan Ferrer, ATOS, Spain
• Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
• Stella Gatziu Grivas, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern - FHNW, Switzerland
• Farideh Heirari, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern - FHNW, Switzerland
• Christian Janiesch, University of Wurzburg, Germany
• Dimka Karastoyanova, Kuhne Logistics University, Germany
• Massimo Mecella, Sapienza - Universita di Roma, Italy
• Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Adrian Mos, XEROX Research, France
• Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
• Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Stefan Wesner, University of Ulm, Germany
• Robert Woitsch, BOC, Austria

Organizing committee

• Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, kritikos@ics.forth.gr

Publication

• Papers will be accepted either as full (15 pages long) or short (8 pages long).
• Post-proceedings publication in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).

Venue

The workshop will be held in Oslo Norway at 27th of September, 2017, in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC). 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Workshop Chair, Kyriakos Kritikos (kritikos@ics.forth.gr).