Nowadays, as organizations reach higher levels of Business Process Management maturity, they tend to possess and actively use large numbers of business process models. It is quite common that such collections of industry-strength business process models include thousands of activities and related business objects such as data, applications, risks, etc. These models are used to solve a variety of modeling challenges, and they are increasingly published to a large number of stakeholders with varying skills and responsibilities. In that sense, it may not come as a surprise that many organizations struggle to manage such high volumes of complex process models. The problem is exacerbated by overlapping content across models, poor version management, process models that are used simultaneously for different purposes, the use of different modeling notations such as EPCs, BPMN, etc.
Against this backdrop, the aim of this workshop is to attract novel research in the area of business process model collections. Conceptual, technical and application-oriented contributions are pursued within the scope of this theme:
- Conceptual work relates to the design of approaches for the management of process model collections, e.g. frameworks and structures to govern the use of such collections.
- Technical work concerns solutions to operationalize the management, and facilitate the maintenance of content in process model repositories, e.g. via refactoring or abstraction techniques. It also concerns software aspects related to process model repositories such as version management, efficient storage, querying and retrieval of process models, and security.
- Application papers can provide case studies with, or empirical evaluations of, industrial process model collections and reference process models (e.g. ITIL, SCOR, eTOM).
intended audience
The intended audience of the workshop consists of both BPM researchers and practitioners who have an interest in methodologies and technologies for process model collections. Our purpose is to actively invite researchers from the academic network of both the organizing and the program committee to submit papers.
location and date
The 2nd International Workshop on Process Model Collections (PMC 2012) will be held on Monday, September 3, 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia, in conjunction with BPM 2012.
call for papers
A PDF version of the call for papers is available here.