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2nd CfP: MS4PI 2006



2nd Call for Papers

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1st International Conference on
Management Systems for Process Improvement
(MS4PI 2006)

TOWARDS THE ADAPTIVITY OF PROCESSES
AND ITS KNOWLEDGE INFLUENCE

06 – 08 February, 2006
University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

http://ms4pi.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/
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Call for Papers (2nd) ---------------------

Recently the impact of business processes within companies
gained more and more importance. This organisational process
focus involves developing and maintaining an understanding of
the organisation's processes and coordinating the activities
to assess, develop, integrate, maintain, and improve these
processes. The attention is turned from the local arrangement
of activities to the global structuring of companies and their
management systems that support and maintain intra- and
cross-company processes. As far as the market changes faster
and faster as often the processes need to be verified and
adapted to the market conditions and business goals. For that
reason information technology and its different concepts should
be used better than up to now to supply possibilities for an
automated and self-adaptive improvement of processes.

MS4PI 2006 will concentrate on the impact of process focus on
management systems technology and its concepts as well as on
achievements, inventions, and innovations in a wide variety of
industries. It shall inspire the discussion on concepts and
technologies for process improvement and provide an expert's view.
This discussion platform should be created for a small community
with subject areas, like frontier aspects between Business Processes
and Softcomputing and Business Processes and Knowledge Management.

Submitted papers should focus on - but are not limited to -
the following topics:

* The economical impact on business processes
* Process modelling, simulation, and integration of process
improvement into company’s business processes
* Consideration of special business processes and classification
* Processes especially suited for service oriented,
knowledge and workflow management applications
* Knowledge modelling within business processes and process improvement
* Knowledge modelling for identifying reasonable process improvement
* Indexes, metric systems, algorithms for process improvement evaluation
* Consideration of time, costs, quality, security,
knowledge in process improvement
* Process improvement for risk management
* Considerations of solutions' scalability
* Costs and ROI of (knowledge based) process improvement
* Added value by intra-company (knowledge based) process improvement
* Quality management in (knowledge based) business processes
* Methods and building blocks for adaptive process infrastructures
* Adaptivity concepts and methods (ESPECIALLY softcomputing or
optimisation concepts) for information systems supporting processes
* Agile process improvement
* Tools, methods, procedures (and their standardisation)
to support (knowledge based) process improvement
* Open source vs. commercial systems in use for adaptive process
improvement
* Case studies, lessons learned, best practices especially in industry
and in research

We invite submissions of various types on the aforementioned aspects:
technical papers, case study reports on commercial or experimental
applications, and education papers, posters etc.
All submitted contributions are subject to peer review on the basis
of relevance, originality, significance, technical correctness,
and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the LNI conference
proceedings series by GI e.V.


Submission ----------

The conference language is English. Papers must be original contributions
that have not been published, nor already submitted to other conferences.
Contributions are limited to 8 pages, must be written in English and
formatted according to the ‘Author’s guidelines’
http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/autorenrichtlinien/.
Submission to MS4PI 2006 will be electronically by email to
ms4pi2006@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de.

Note: The paper will be included in the respective proceedings only if
one of the authors registers for the conference (with fee paid) by the
presenter registration deadline.
One registration per accepted paper is required.


Key Dates (2005/06) -------------------

Paper submission deadline: 10 October
Author notification: 21 November
Final version due: 19 December
Presenter registration deadline: 19 December
Early registration deadline: 19 December
Final registration deadline: 26 January
Conference: 06 - 08 February


Organisation ------------

Roman Povalej, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Cornelia Richter-von Hagen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Chairs

Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Wolffried Stucky, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Program Committee

Wil van der Aalst, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Robert Alard, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Karsten Böhm, University of Leipzig, Germany
Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
Johann Eder, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Martin Eppler, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Thomas Freytag, University of Cooperative Education Karlsruhe, Germany
Renchu Gan, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Tarek Hassan, Loughborough University, UK
Annika Hinze, Waikato University – Hamilton, New Zealand
Harald Holz, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
Wolfgang H. Janko, University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Austria
Roland Kaschek, Massey University – Palmerston North, New Zealand
Müge Klein, Marmara University – Istanbul, Turkey
Peter Köchel, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
Ronald Maier, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Olivera Marjanovic, University of New South Wales – Sydney, Australia
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Heinrich Mayr, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland – Brisbane, Australia
Roman Povalej, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Dietmar Ratz, University of Cooperative Education Karlsruhe, Germany
Gil Regev, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Ulrich Remus, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Cornelia Richter-von Hagen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Rosemann, University of Queensland – Brisbane, Australia
Philip Seltsikas, University of Surrey Guildford, UK
Daniel Sommer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Markus Strohmaier, University of Graz, Austria
Wolffried Stucky, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany