Call for Papers and Announcement BPM 2005 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT Nancy, France, September 5-7, 2005 http://bpm2005.loria.fr/ Important Dates Extended deadline: Due to the many requests, and to be fair to all authors, we have extended the paper submission deadline to March 26. Please note that this is a hard deadline. Submission of Papers: March 26, 2005 (hard deadline) Notification: May 11, 2005 Final Version Due: May 27, 2005 Conference: September 6-7, 2005 BPM 2005 is the third in a conference series that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of business process management. BPM 2005 will be held in Nancy, France and is organized by LORIA laboratory and University Henri Poincaré. Papers presenting original contributions on business process management (theory, techniques, methods, software architectures) are sought. The language of the conference is English. Topics Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: - Business process modeling and analysis - Software architectures - Processes and service composition - Business process and e-service repositories - E-services architectures and technology - Quality of Service in business processes - Process planning and flexible workflow - Formal models in business process management - Process configuration and assembly - Process simulation - Process monitoring and tracking - Process data warehousing and analysis - Process mining - Process patterns - Security in business processes - Case handling systems - Cross-organizational process support, contracts - Process verification and validation - Workflow management systems - Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems - Process-enhanced groupware In addition to the main research track, BPM 2005 will include an industrial papers track. For this, the conference encourages industry practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on their impact on current information technology or business practice. Paper Submissions Papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2005 web site; details will follow. Please upload a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than March 18, 2005. Papers must be in English. Papers must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper cannot exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late and submissions sent by fax will be immediately rejected. The same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page limit. For papers submitted to the industrial track there is a 10 page limit. Industrial papers must be clearly marked as such so they can be appropriately reviewed by the program committee. Industrial papers submitted to the industrial track must otherwise follow the same format requirements as research papers. All accepted paper will published in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author for accepted paper should register for the conference and plan to present the paper. More details on the submission procedure and publication will follow. Authors of selected paper will be invited to submit a paper for a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, an Elsevier Science journal). Program Committee Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands (Co-Chair) Vijay Atluri, USA Karim Baina, Moroco Nouredine Belkhatir, France Ladjel Bellatreche, France Boualem Benatallah, Australia (Co-Chair) Athman Bouguettaya, USA Thierry Bouron, France Mokrane Bouzeghoub, France Chris Bussler, Ireland Fabio Casati, USA (Co-Chair) Malu Castellanos, USA François Charoy, France Dickson K.W. Chiu, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, USA Leonid Churilov, Australia Francisco Curbera, USA Peter Dadam, Germany Joerg Desel, Germany Jan Dietz, The Netherlands Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Marlon Dumas, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Austria Johan Eder, Austria Marie Christine Fauvet, France Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, USA Claude Godart, France Paul Grefen, The Netherlands Mohand Said Hacid, France Kees van Hee, The Netherlands Arthur ter Hofstede, Australia Geert-Jan Houben, The Netherlands Stefan Jablonski, Germany Gerti Kappel, Austria Hassan Khorshid, USA Kwang-Hoon Kim, Korea Akhil Kumar, USA Lea Kutvonen, Finland Dan Marinescu, USA Olivera Marjanovic Australia Michael Maximilien, USA Anne Ngu, USA Andreas Oberweis, Germany Maria Orlowska, Australia Helen Paik, Australia Mike Papazoglou, The Netherlands Cesare Pautasso, Switzerland Barbara Pernici, Italy Fethi Rabhi, Australia Krithi Ramamritham, India Manfred Reichert, Germany Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands Michael Rosemann, Australia Yucel Saygin, Turkey Karsten Schulz, Germany Robert James Steele, Australia Aixin Sun, Australia Farouk Toumani, France François Vernadat, France Mathias Weske, Germany Jian Yang, Australia Liangzhao Zeng (IBM, USA) Yanchun Zhang, Australia Leon Zhao, USA Conference Organization General chair Claude Godart Program Co-Chairs Wil van der Aalst Boualem Benatallah Fabio Casati Industrial Chair Francisco Curbera Workshops Chair Chris Bussler Publicity Chair Daniela Grigori Local Organization Chair Olivier Perrin