1st Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management
(AP-BPM2013)
Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013
(http://www.ap-bpm.org)
The Asia Pacific conference on BPM 2013 is the first edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. Its purpose is to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. The conference covers all aspects of BPM, including theory, models, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical studies.
The first conference will be held on 29th-30th Aug. 2013 as a co-event of BPM2013. It will take place in Beijing, the capital of China. Next to the world-famous sites of the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, and Tiantan – four world cultural heritage sites recognized by UNESCO – Beijing hosts a constantly growing concentration of cutting-edge, industrial research labs and academic institutions from all over the world, making it a melting pot of creativity and innovation.
 
KEY DATES
* Full papers due: May 18th, 2013
* Notification of acceptance: June 1st , 2013
* Camera-ready papers deadline: June 14th, 2013 

Conference topics
The topics for both research and industry papers include, but are not limited to:
 
Process modeling and theory
* Foundations of business process models
* Process modeling languages, notations and methods
* Reference process models
* Process patterns and standards
* Artifact-centric business processes
* Loosely structured business processes
* Automated process composition and synthesis
* Process metadata and semantic reasoning
* Variability and configuration of process models
* Process simulation and static analysis
 
Process model management
* Process model storage
* Process model repositories
* Process model indexing
* Process model retrieval
* Process model similarity
* Process model transformations
 
Process architectures and platforms
* Process-oriented software architectures
* Service-oriented architectures for BPM
* Workflow management systems
* Security aspects of business process execution
* Automated planning for business process execution
* Resource management in business process execution
* Process componentization and component repositories
 
Management of process execution data
* Process tracing and monitoring
* Process performance measurement
* Process mining
* Process data warehousing
* Data streaming in business processes

 
Process flexibility and evolution
* Process exception handling
* Adaptive and context-aware processes
* Case handling
* Process-enhanced groupware
* Process change management
* Monitoring and provenance across change
 
Human-centric BPM
* People-intensive processes
* Crowdsourcing processes
* Social business processes
* User-centric aspects of process management and use
* Integrating strategy, processes, people and IT
* Globally distributed process management
 
Non-traditional BPM scenarios
* Knowledge-intensive processes
* Data-driven processes
* Distributed and mobile processes
* Inter-process planning and coordination
* Grid and scientific workflows
 
Management issues and empirical studies
* Business process lifecycle management
* Relationship between business strategy and business process
* Success factors and measures in BPM
* BPM governance and compliance management
* BPM maturity
* Adoption and Practice of BPM
* Case Studies and Experience Reports
 
HONORARY CHAIR
Jiaguang Sun, Tsinghua University, China
 
GENERAL CHAIR
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China
 
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea
Jianming Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan
Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia
 
STEERING COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair: Arthur ter Hofstede
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Executive Chair: Hyerim Bae
Pusan National University, Korea
Jianmin Wang
Tsinghua University, China
 
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Moe Thandar Wynn 
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Minseok Song 
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Jianxun Liu
Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
 
ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China
 
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Yahui Lu, Shenzhen University, China
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saiful Akbar, ITB, Indonesia
Yudistira Dwi Wardhana Asnar, ITB, Indonesia
Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Namwook Cho, Seoul National Univ. of Technology, Korea
Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China
ZaiwenFeng, Wuhan University, China
Yingbo Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Yahui Lu, Shenzhen University, China
Xiangpei Hu, Dalian University of Technology, China
Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan
Jae-yoon Jung,Kyunghee University, Korea
Dongsoo Kim, Soongsil University, Korea
Kwanghoon Kim, Kyonggi University, Korea
Minsoo Kim, Pukyung National University, Korea
Anto Satriyo Nugroho, Center for Information & Communication Technology, Indonesia
Chao Ou-Yang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Punnamee Sachakamol, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia
Riyanarto Sarno, ITS, Indonesia
Ricardo Seguel, BPM LATAM
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Pablo David Villarreal, National Technological University, Argentina
Xuefeng Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Zhaoxia Wang, Logistical Engineering University, China
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China
Yiping Wen, Central South University, China
Raymond Wong, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Jei-Zheng Wu, Soochow University, Taiwan
Bernardo N. Yahya, UNIST, Korea
Yang Yu, SUN YAT-SEN University, China
Chongyi Yuan, Peking University, China
HaipingZha, Naval Armament Research Institute of PLA, China
Li Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China
Yang Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Lindu Zhao, Southeast University, China
Wen Zhao, Peking University, China