sponsored by the Promoter 2 Working Group and the RENOIR Network of
Excellence in Requirements Engineering
(European Union)
Nancy (France), 7-9 July 1997
Call for position papers
*** COMPLETE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT
http://www.elet.polimi.it/~fuggetta/rdpt97.html ***
OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP
Over the past 10 years there has been a tremendous development in methods,
techniques, and technologies supporting and coordinating work activities.
These contributions have emerged in the context of different disciplines.
Software engineering has originated a variety of process-centered
environments and process modeling languages aimed at describing and
supporting the work of software developers. In the context of information
system development, a variety of technology and methods have emerged to
describe the workflow adopted by an organization to achieve its business
goals. Finally, so-called CSCW environments and tools have been developed
to support general, unstructured cooperative activities.
We have reached a critical stage in the development and deployment of these
technologies.
1. Existing systems and techniques have emerged from different research
domains, with little (if any) cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences.
We lack a common understanding of the similarities and differences among
the existing approaches.
2. We are experiencing significant problems in adopting this kind of
technology in real industrial and business settings.
3. There are a number of commercial products on the market (notably,
workflow management systems), and we need to define criteria to compare and
assess them.
4. The development of new telecommunication networks and infrastructure
(such as the Web and Intranets) is changing the environment where these
technologies are supposed to operate.
We contend that a new discipline is emerging, whose goal is to develop
technology and method to support human-centered cooperative activities in
complex work settings. Though the tag is certainly not completely
appropriate, it has been tentatively called process technology or
technology for work activity coordination.
This workshop has three main objectives:
1. To identify risks and critical issues for the development and
exploitation of this technology.
2. To identify, explore and discuss research issues and topics in process
technology, with a particular focus on the next two to five years.
3. To bring together researchers from different communities such as
software engineering, information systems, workflow, and metamodelling, in
order to find synergies and commonalities.
The long term goal is to challenge the research community to redefine the
research agenda with a view to new needs and requirements, new enabling
technology, and the widening range of application domains in which process
technology is being exploited.
SUBMISSIONS
Position papers are limited to 4 pages. They must be submitted by email to
the program chair by April, 30th, 1997. Postscript (level 1) and pure ASCII
are accepted. The result of the evaluation process will be mailed at the
end of May.
Programme Committee and organization
General Chair:
Jean Claude Derniame
CRIN
Batiment LORIA BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre (France)
email: derniame@loria.fr
Programme Chair:
Alfonso Fuggetta
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
P.za Leonardo da Vinci, 32
20133 Milano (Italy)
email: fuggetta@elet.polimi.it
Programme committee:
Anthony Finkelstein (UK)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (USA)
Volker Gruhn (Germany)
Jeff Kramer (UK)
John Miller (USA)
Lee Osterweil (USA)
Colette Rolland (France)
Alexander Wolf (USA)
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