Link: TAProViz'13 Workshop Programme

Our TAProViz workshop programme for BPM 2013 is now available online at:

http://wst.univie.ac.at/topics/taproviz13/index.php?t=program

Congratulations to those who were successful with their submissions.  

We are also very happy to announce that Prof. Hajo Reiers (TUE) will be delivering our keynote.

Ross

Program

Beijing, China - 26 August 2013 

13:15-13:30	Opening
13:30-14:30	Keynote  Hajo A. Reijers
14:30-15:00	Towards Enhancing Business Process Monitoring with Sonification   Tobias Hildebrandt
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:00	A Navigation Metaphor to Support Mobile Workflow Systems   Jorge Cardoso, Stefan Jablonski and Bernhard Volz
16:00-16:30	Evaluating KIPN for modeling KIP   Joanne Netto, Flavia Santoro and Fernanda Baiao
16:30-17:00	Community meeting
18:00-20:00	Workshop Dinner

Black Box Executable Optiportal Rendering with OpenGL

This year I have been supervising Steven Jonkers on a rendering technology honours project, looking at how to hook into OpenGL executables so that binaries will run on the QUT CUBE, sans modification. Steven has created some great technology to automatically hook into the applications so that they are rendered onto large segmented displays. The methods interrupts the GPU pipeline using windows message hooks, and implements a master-slave distributed renderer, allowing very low network overheads, even for large particle systems.  

The following video links show example OpenGL demonstrators running, without modification, on the OptiPortal in the QUT HPC department.  NB, move to end of video to see the OptiPortal renderings.

Shadow Maps - http://youtu.be/kLXQOqifrLM

2D Particle Simulation - http://youtu.be/qdbJNhl7lBI

HDR Demo - http://youtu.be/006wsuWlfFE

This is a great outcome for an honours thesis (nice work Steven!), and will continue as an ongoing project in liason with the QUT Cube team and HPC.

Thanks to Michael Rosemann for the "motivational" IS Honours scholarship for Steven.

Ross

2nd CFP: TAProViz¹13 Workshop at BPM 2013

TAProViz’13, 2nd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Process Visualization, Beijing, China - 26 August 2013

In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2013)

Web Site: http://www.wst.univie.ac.at/topics/taproviz13

Workshop Goals

The representation of business process models has been a continuing research topic for many years now.  However, many process model representations have not developed beyond minimally interactive 2D icon-based representations of directed graphs and networks, with little or no annotation for information overlays.  In addition, very few of these representations have undergone a thorough analysis or design process with reference to psychological theories on data and process visualization.  This dearth of visualization research, we believe, has led to problems with BPM uptake in some organizations, as the representations can be difficult for stakeholders to understand, and thus remains an open research question for the BPM community.  In addition, business analysts and process modeling experts themselves need visual representations that are able to assist with key BPM life cycle tasks in the process of generating optimal solutions.

With the rise of desktop computers and commodity mobile devices capable of supporting rich interactive 3D environments, we believe that much of the research performed in computer human interaction, virtual reality, games and interactive entertainment have much potential in areas of BPM; to engage, provide insight, and to promote collaboration amongst analysts and stakeholders alike.  We believe this is a timely topic, with research emerging in a number of places around the globe, relevant to this workshop.

This is the second TAProViz workshop being run at BPM.  The intention this year is to consolidate on the results of last year's successful workshop by further developing this important topic, identifying the key research topics of interest to the BPM visualization community. 

Workshop Theme

Visualizations can make the structure and dependencies between elements in processes accessible in order to support users who need to analyze process models and their instances. However, effectively visualizing processes in a user-friendly way is often a big challenge, especially for complex process models which can consist of hundreds of process components (e.g., process activities, data flows, and resources) and thousands of running process instances in different execution states. 

Many challenges remain to be addressed within the broad area of process visualization such as: scalability, human-computer interaction, cognitive aspects, applicability of different approaches, collaboration, process evolution, run-time requirements of process instances and applications, etc.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Visual Metaphors in Processes

• Visual Design and Aesthetics for Processes

• Visualization of Dynamic Data in Processes

• Change Visualization for Processes

• Interface and Interaction Techniques for Process Visualization 

• Visualization Techniques for Collaboration and Distributed Processes 

• Visualization of Large-scale Processes

• Cognition and Perception in Process Visualization

• Evaluation and User Studies of Process Visualization

• Visual Modeling Languages

• Analysis Techniques and Visualization for Processes

• Process Visualization of Large Screens

• Mobile Process Visualization

• Visualization Tools and Systems for Processes

• Visualization Techniques for Processes

• Process Visualization and Sonification

• Virtual World Process Visualization

• Immersive Process Modeling Approaches

• 3D Process Visualization Approaches

Format of the Workshop

The ½ day workshop will comprise accepted papers and tool presentations. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.

  

In addition, there will be a joint meeting of the participants, to continue the development of a process visualization research community that will continue to work together after the workshop.

Intended Audience

Researchers, practitioners and software vendors in the BPM space performing research into using graphics and interaction techniques to provide process visualizations across many topics will find this workshop to be of interest.

Important Dates

• Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 25 May 2013

• Notification of Acceptance: 25 June 2013

• Camera-ready version: 23 July 2013

• TAProViz Workshop: 26 August 2013

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. 

Three types of submissions are possible:

  

• (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature research results 

• (2) position papers reporting research that may be in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated 

• (3) tool reports 

Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages.  

Only papers in English will be accepted and must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in the « LNBIP» format. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). 

All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Hard copies of these proceedings will be shipped to all registered participants approximately four months after the workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be distributed during the workshop. 

Submitted papers will be evaluated, in a double blind manner, on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and the relation to the theory and application of process visualization. 

Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair site.  

Registration

Accepted papers imply that at least one of the authors will register for «(BPM2013)»  and present the paper at the TAProViz workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Ross Brown 

«r.brown@qut.edu.au» 

Information Systems Discipline, Science and Engineering Faculty 

Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

«http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/brown8/» 

• Simone Kriglstein

«simone.kriglstein@univie.ac.at» 

SBA Research, Vienna, Austria 

«http://cs.univie.ac.at/simone.kriglstein»

• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

«stefanie.rinderle-ma@univie.ac.at» 

Research Group Workflow Systems and Technology

University of Vienna, Austria 

«http://cs.univie.ac.at/stefanie.rinderle-ma» 

Program Committee

• Ralph Bobrik (Switzerland)

• Michael Burch (Germany) 

• Massimiliano De Leoni (Netherlands) 

• Remco Dijkman (Netherlands)

• Phillip Effinger (Germany)

• Kathrin Figl (Austria) 

• Hans-Georg Fill (Austria) 

• Sonja Kabicher-Fuchs (Austria) 

• Jens Kolb (Germany)

• Wendy Lucas (USA)

• Silvia Miksch (Austria) 

• Margit Pohl (Austria) 

• Rune Rasmussen (Australia) 

• Manfred Reichert (Germany)  

• Irene Vanderfeesten (Netherlands)

• Eric Verbeek (Netherlands) 

• Günter Wallner (Austria)

Paper: A theoretical basis for using virtual worlds as a personalised process visualisation approach

Have just had a paper written with my PhD student Hanwen Guo, "A theoretical basis for using virtual worlds as a personalised process visualisation approach," accepted for the Human Centred Information Systems (HCIS) workshop at CaISE, 2013.

QUT eprints version is available here.

Abstract: Communication processes are vital in the lifecycle of BPM projects. With this in mind, much research has been performed into facilitating this key component between stakeholders. Amongst the methods used to support this process are personalized process visualisations. In this paper, we review the development of this visualization trend, then, we propose a theoretical analysis framework based upon communication theory. We use this framework to provide theoretical support to the conjecture that 3D virtual worlds are powerful tools for communicating personalised visualisations of processes within a workplace. Meta requirements are then derived and applied, via 3D virtual world functionalities, to generate example visualisations containing personalized aspects, which we believe enhance the process of communcation between analysts and stakeholders in BPM process (re)design activities.

Well done Hanwen!

Ross

CFP: International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS

9th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'13)

July 29-31, 2013

Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel

Rethymnon, Crete Island, Greece

http://www.isvc.net

****ISVC'13 SPECIAl TRACKS*****

ST1: Computational Bioimaging

Organizers:

        Tavares João Manuel R. S., University of Porto, Portugal

        Natal Jorge Renato, University of Porto, Portugal

        Cunha Alexandre, Caltech, USA

ST2: 3D Mapping, Modeling and Surface Reconstruction

Organizers:

        Nefian Ara, Carnegie Mellon University/NASA Ames Research Center,

        USA

        Edwards Laurence, NASA Ames Research Center, USA

        Huertas Andres, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, USA

        Visentin Gianfranco, ESA European Space Research and Technology

        Centre, The Netherlands

        Lourakis Manolis, Foundation for Research and Technology . Hellas,

        Greece

        Chliveros Georgios, Foundation for Research and Technology .

        Hellas, Greece,

ST3: Visual Computing in Digital Cultural Heritage

Organizers:

        Doulamis Anastasios D., Technical University of Crete, Greece

        Doulamis Nikolaos D., National Technical University of Athens,

        Greece

        Ioannides Marinos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

        Georgopoulos Andreas, National Technical University of Athens,

        Greece

ST4: Graphical Model Inference and Learning for Visual Computing

Organizers:

        Komodakis Nikos, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France

        Kohli Pushmeet, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

        Kumar Pawan, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France

        Blaschko Matthew, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France

        Carsten Rother, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

ST5: Sparse Methods for Computer Vision, Graphics and Medical Imaging

Organizers:

        Metaxas Dimitris, Rutgers University USA

        Axel Leon, New York University, USA

        Zhang Shaoting, Rutgers University, USA

ST6: Visual Computing Applied to Geosciences

Organizers:

        Brazil Emilio Vital , University of Calgary, Canada

        Patel Daniel, CMR, Norway

        Sousa Mario Costa, University of Calgary, Canada

ST7: Visual Computing with Multimodal Data Streams

Organizers:

        Zhang Hui, Indiana University, USA

        Du Yingzi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,

        Indianapolis, USA

        Boyles Mike, Indiana University, USA

        Wernert Eric, Indiana University, USA

        Thakur Sidharth, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA

        Ruan Guangchen, Indiana University, USA

ST8: Intelligent Environments: Algorithms and Applications

Organizers:

        Bebis George, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

        Nicolescu Mircea, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

        Bourbakis Nikolaos, Wright State University, USA

        Tavakkoli Alireza, University of Houston, Victoria, USA

ISVC provides a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and

practitioners to present their latest research findings, ideas,

developments and applications in visual computing. We seek papers

contributing to the state of the art and practice in any of the four

central areas of visual computing: (1) computer vision, (2) computer

graphics, (3) virtual reality, and (4) visualization.  Of particular

interest are papers that combine technologies from two or more areas. For

a list of topics, see http://www.isvc.net

ISVC'13 will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with

all aspects of visual computing. In addition to the main program, the

symposium will include several keynote presentations, special tracks, and

a poster session. Significantly extended and revised versions of selected

papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (ISI/SCIE

indexed) and the Computers and Graphics journal(ISI/SCIE indexed). Also, a

"best paper" award ($500) is sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Research

Labs (MERL). The symposium's proceedings will be published by

Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

*****Keynote Speakers

            Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany

            Mel Slater, University College London, UK

            Serge Belongie University of California, San Diego, USA

            Anthony Hoogs, Kitware, USA

            Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University, USA

            Dennis Zorin, New York University, USA

*****Important Dates

Special track proposals:    February 1, 2013

Paper submissions        May 10, 2013

Notification of acceptance    June 10, 2013

Final camera ready paper    June 28, 2013

Advance Registration        June 28, 2013

ISVC'13 Symposium        July 29-31, 2013

CFP: (CPSM 2013) Communicating Business Process and Software Models Quality, Understandability, and Maintainability

Please consider submitting a paper to the following workshop being chaired by my colleague and collaborator Irene Vanderfeesten.

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1st IEEE International Workshop on Communicating Business Process and Software Models Quality, Understandability, and Maintainability (CPSM 2013)

--- http://www.win.tue.nl/cpsm2013/------------------------------------------

held in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Software

Maintenance (ICSM) Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 22-28 September 2013.

About the workshop

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In recent years, the fact that models are a means for communication gained

more attention in research on process modeling and software modeling. Both

communities discuss issues related to models, modeling languages, and their

use and perception, such as model understandability, complexity of modeling

languages, actual usage of language features, cognitive aspects, human

perception and subjective perspectives on models, and related issues. These

topics are extremely important for the adaption of modeling languages in

practice, yet the attention from the research community is still limited. The

CPSM 2013 workshop shall provide a forum for researchers and practitioners

actively working on quality, usability and maintainability of software and

process models.

The workshop supports the exchange of ideas, challenges, and insights from

two similar domains with the aim of raising awareness of the important "soft

skills" of modeling languages. The workshop will give room to present

research results, position papers, case studies and share experiences and

ideas in panel discussions. Relevant topics are

-              Business process model quality metrics

-              Business process maintainability

-              Business process evolution

-              Business process modeling styles

-              Business process modeling patterns and anti-patterns

-              Business process comprehension

-              Relation between business process models and software / system models

-              Software model maintainability

-              Software model evolution and tracking

-              Software model and implementation alignment

-              Software model comprehension

-              Roles and expertise different modeling activities

-              Empirical studies on understandability of business processes and

    software models

-              Empirical studies on quality of business process and software models

-              Industrial cases on communication and understandability of process

    and software models

We invite full papers that describe consolidated research results or case

studies, as well as short papers outlining researches still in progress or

position papers. Submissions will be assessed based on their novelty,

relevance, empirical evidence, scientific quality, readability, comparison

with existing and related works, and the extent to which the paper allows to

build bridges between the different domains of process modeling and software

engineering. We specifically want to encourage early results.

Format of the Workshop and Proceedings

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The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers and keynotes from

experienced researchers and practitioners. Moreover, we will organize

moderated discussions on hot topics that were raised in the different

communities and emerged from the workshop submissions. All accepted papers

will be published as IEEE Workshop Proceedings. As this volume will appear

after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop.

At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop

and present the paper.

Paper Submission

--------------------------------------

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of

the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Different

paper types are distinguished. Length of full papers (completed research or

case study) must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers (work in progress or

positions paper) should be no longer than 4 pages. Papers should be submitted

in the IEEE style in PDF format, templates are available at

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently

submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a

classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics

above, and an indication of the submission category (full paper | case study

| work in progress | position paper).

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsm2013

Important Dates

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Submission: Monday, June 10th, 2013

Notification: Friday, July 12th, 2013

Camera-ready: Friday, July 26th, 2013

Workshop: September 23rd, 2013

Workshop Website

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http://www.win.tue.nl/cpsm2013/

Organization

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-  Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

   (mbrambil@elet.polimi.it)

-  Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

   (i.t.p.vanderfeesten@tue.nl)

-  Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

  (d.fahland@tue.nl)

Program Committee

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-  Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

-  Ross Brown, Queensland Univeristy of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

-  Jordi Cabot, INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France

-  Pete Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

-  Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

-  Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

-  Kathrin Figl, Vienna University of Economics, Austria

-  Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

-  Simone Kriglstein, Secure Business Austria, Vienna, Austria

-  Ralf Laue, University Leipzig, Germany

-  Jan Mendling, University of Vienna, Austria

-  Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium

-  Gianna Reggio, University of Genoa, Italy

-  Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany

-  Hajo Reijers, Perceptive Software & Eindhoven University of Technology,

   the Netherlands

-  Gustavo Rossi, UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina

-  Davide Di Ruscio, Università dell'Aquila, Italy

-  Bruce Silver, Silver Associates, USA

-  Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

-  Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

-  Juan M. Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

-  Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria

-  Matthias Weidlich, Technion, Haifa, Israel

-  Manuel Wimmer, Technical University of Vienna. Austria

-  Marco Winckler, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

CPSM 2013 is supported by IEEE Computer Society (http://www.ieee.org/).

Paper: The BPMVE Wunderkammer

Have just had a BPTrends column, "The BPMVE Wunderkammer,"  published with my colleague, Prof. Jan Recker.  QUT ePrint is available here.  Thanks for the opportunity Jan!

Ross