The workshop on Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning (PO-CBR) is dedicated to address the challenges of integrating Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) with process-oriented research areas like Business Process Management, Workflow Management and Planning. Consequently, several types of processes are in the interest of this workshop, mainly business processes, software processes, planning processes, and search processes.
Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities aimed at defining, executing, monitoring and optimizing business processes (BP), with the objective of making the business of an enterprise as effective and efficient as possible, and of increasing its economic success. Such activities are highly automated, typically by means of the workflow technology. BPM activities, and BP optimization in particular, may ask the enterprise to be able to flexibly change and adapt the predefined process schema, in response to expected situations (e.g. new laws, reengineering efforts) as well as to unanticipated exceptions and problems in the operating environment (e.g. emergencies).
The agile workflow technology is the technical solution which has been invoked to deal with such adaptation and overriding needs. In order to provide an effective and quick workflow change support, many agile workflow systems share the idea of recalling and reusing concrete examples of changes adopted in the past. To this end, Case-based Reasoning (CBR) has been proposed as a natural methodological solution.
Software Processes can be studied from different points of view. In the Software Engineering field, artifacts like models, diagrams, etc. define Software Development Processes that can be reused to generate new applications. There is also a significant trend on reusing different software components to compose a workflow that models the behavior of a system. Web Services, Scientific Software or Product Lines are some examples of such approaches. In this topic we cannot forget a closely related domain like Planning. All these areas are related to Software Processes and can take advantage of the CBR paradigm to reuse existing solutions, components, compositions or plans.
As a matter of fact, in recent years many examples of CBR-based process change reuse and workflow adaptation support have been proposed in the literature. The workshop should serve as a means for exchanging novel as well as more consolidated ideas and examples in the field, and to identify promising research lines and challenges for the future.
The workshop on Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning intends to encourage the exchange of information and ideas about Process-oriented Case-based Reasoning (PO-CBR) by contributions in areas that include, but are not limited to, the following:
This workshop will be held on September 12th, 2011 as part of the ICCBR 2011 workshop series in London, UK. This workshop is open to all interested conference participants, but may be limited by available room facilities.
The Organizing Committee will select a subset of the submitted papers for oral presentation. Moreover, time will be reserved for a session where some participants can demonstrate their tools and illustrate the contributions of CBR technology to the field.
We invite submissions of two types:
Papers must be submitted in electronic form as PDF via the Easychair system. Springer LNCS is the format required for the final camera-ready copy. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at Springer. Selected papers, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of an international journal.
Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany
Stefania Montani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Juan A. Recio-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Valmi Dufour-Lussier, LORIA, France
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Pedro Gonzales-Calero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
David Leake, Indiana University, USA
Giorgio Leonardi, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
| June 13th, 2011 | Extended deadline for workshop paper submission |
| July 6th, 2011 | Notification of acceptance for workshop papers |
| July 20th, 2011 | Camera ready copy due |
| September 12th, 2011 | Workshop held at ICCBR-2011 |