INTRODUCTION

“Process” is a pervasive concept existing in almost every research and application field such as business, computing and information theory, engineering, Industrial and manufacturing, science and statistics, biology and psychology, Philosophy, and many others. Despite its various specific definitions for each field, a process can be interpreted as “a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end” according to the Oxford Dictionary. In the recent decade, process related technologies have been extensively investigated and promoted in the area of business process management (BPM) and workflow management systems (WfMS) with topics covering the whole process lifecycle such as process modelling, process verification, process execution, workflow scheduling, process monitoring, process exception handling, and the analysis of historical data in BPM system and WfMS such as the statistical analysis for performance metrics and process mining. However, above topics have also been investigated (maybe with different terms) in many other production, management and IT service domains such as product line management, software process, Web services, and cyber-physical systems.

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SCOPE AND INTERESTS

The International Conference on Process Aware Systems (PAS2014) is a cross-area international forum on process aware systems. PAS2014 aims at bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in process management, and formally exploring various potentials about process management in the era of cloud computing and big data from the perspective of both academic and industry. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

Foundations and Architecture for Process Aware Systems
	Process modeling languages, notations and methods Artifact-centric business processes Automated process composition & synthesis Resource management and workflow scheduling in process aware systems Software Techniques and Architectures for process aware systems Process-oriented software architectures Service-oriented architectures for Process Aware Systems Infrastructure as a service for process aware systems Platform as a service for Process aware systems Software as a service for Process aware systems
Big Data and Cloud Computing for Process Aware Systems
	Big data and big process management Big data processing and big process mining Cloud-based BPM and Workflow as a Service Security, privacy and trust in Big data/Cloud-based BPM Business process crowdsourcing based on social networks Business process in hybrid cloud environments Scientific workflows in the cloud
Monitoring, Adaptation and Improvement of Process Aware Systems
	Process tracing and monitoring Process performance measurement Process data analytics and visualization Adaptive and context-aware processes Business process lifecycle management Business process improvement
Applications and Empirical Studies of Process Aware Systems
	Knowledge-intensive processes Data-driven processes Distributed and mobile processes Inter-process planning and coordination Adoption and Practice of process aware systems Case studies and experience reports Process aware system education and training
Software Development Process for Process Aware Systems
	Development processes for emerging and evolving process aware systems Agile/Lean processes in (software) systems development Process issues in developing adaptive and evolving software systems Continuous process improvement in diverse areas and context Distributed/Global development and large-scale processes Process modeling, simulation and analysis Process/Project management and assessment Process metrics and tools Cost estimation and project planning Processes for cutting-edge software technologies, including (but not limited to) ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, multi-core technologies, and cellular technologies
Non-software Aspects of Process Aware Systems
	Processes in non-software domains (e.g., business, health care, manufacturing, transportation, etc.) with a demonstrated relationship to process aware systems Modeling of physical and computation processes Integrations of computation, communication, and control processes process -oriented control systems Process technology characterization, extraction, and modeling of design for manufacturability Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems Process-variation aware embedded system design

Pulications

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the CCIS series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper.