BPOKI '05

29 June 2005, Graz, Austria

Past Event

BPOKI'04: BPOKI'04 Website, BPOKI'04 Papers
Latest information about the BPOKI track series: http://www.i-know.at/BPOKI

BPOKI'05

Track Information: Impressions of the Event, Program + Presentations, Call for Papers

Organizers

  • Markus Strohmaier, Know-Center, Graz, Austria, mstrohm@know-center.at (Chair)
  • Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center, Graz, Austria

The Event

Like last year's BPOKI'04, BPOKI'05 successfully took place with more than 40 participants here in Graz last week. The one-day special track comprised an exciting keynote speech given by Andreas Abecker, focusing on the history and development of BPOKM/BPOKI, followed by 8 insightful paper presentations covering a diverse field of current research challenges, and interesting discussion sessions dealing with knowledge-oriented business process improvement, industry experiences and task-oriented KM.

Questions raised during BPOKI'05 include:

  • Should the multitude of available approaches in BPOKI be synthesized? Is a standardization necessary to strengthen the aspect of application orientation? If so, how can this be achieved?
  • How could we support processes from largely rigid to very open application domains? Is a classification of different types of processes, abstraction levels, application domains and approaches necessary?
  • How can the role of people be further strengthened in BPOKI? How can fuzzy models of knowledge be reconciled with formal business process descriptions?
  • How can we close the gap between TO-BE and AS-IS business processees through KM instruments? Should we utilize modelling as a normative and/or a descriptive activity in BPOKI?
  • How do knowledge-oriented BP modeling approaches scale? How could complexity be reduced without loosing detail?
  • How can we design solutions in a way that brings immediate benefit to knowledge workers? How can such solutions be integrated with BPOKI?
  • How can the quality of BPOKI be improved (including aspects of flexibility, adaptability, changeability)?
  • How can the business process context of users be identified without additional user interaction or rigid Workflow Management Systems?

Important Dates

  • 18 Apr 2005 - Revised camera-ready paper (8 pages)
  • 29 Jun 2005 - BPOKI'05 special track

Program Committee

  • Thomas Allweyer, Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Corinna Engelhardt-Nowitzki, University of Leoben, Austria
  • Martin Eppler, University of Lugano, Switzerland
  • Harald Holz, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
  • Millie Kwan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Ronald Maier, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
  • Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Daniel E. O'Leary, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
  • Ulrich Remus, University of Erlangen, Germany
  • Yesha Sivan, K2K Inc., Israel