SCOPE

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 of 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 realized 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 realization 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.

TOPICS

• Novel methods and techniques on cloud migration
• Novel methods and techniques for moving business processes in the cloud

• Business Process Modelling
• Semantic Business Process Languages and Ontologies
• Hybrid Business Process Modelling
• Goal-Oriented Modelling of Business Processes
• (Semantic) Cloud Service Description Languages
• KPI Modelling Languages & Ontologies
• Cross-Layer Metric Models (from business to infrastructure layer)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Semantic SLA Description
• Hierarchical SLAs
• SLA Mapping between hierarchy levels
• SLA Management Frameworks

• 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

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