Call for Papers - Deadline Extended! IEEE Workshop on Business Process Modelling for the Service Generation July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Co-located with SCC 2008 Reportedly more than 25 different methodologies, 72 different techniques and 102 different tools exist in support of business process modeling. Such a diverse range of techniques and tools can serve to only confuse and lead to disparate and incompatible development of business processes, with most approaches requiring significant technical expertise. The fundamental problem is that process owners are generally non-technically inclined. Generalizing a given set of notation to be better than others is confined to its representation contextual issues, its purpose and most importantly the needs of business process stakeholders. While simple representation is inadequate and formal approaches are too technically complex, therefore a critical question must be, can we sacrifice rigor in order to facilitate universal understandability for accurate business process interpretation? Therefore this workshop provides a platform to address various key issues in such technically engineered business process representation. Identifying common ontologies, epistemologies and conventions can reduce potential ontological drift in the lost of representational actual meaning disseminated among technical as well as non-technically inclined semantic communities. This workshop aims to bring together the main stakeholders in Business Process Modeling to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, opinions and aspirations about current and future needs in the development of common notations and its semantics. The idea is to create an inclusive approach for all stakeholders (technical and non-technical) with the aspiration of providing a universal framework for service based process design. Authors are invited to submit papers (maximum 6 pages) which present original unpublished research in all areas of Business Process Modelling. Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of BPM are welcome. At least one author is expected to attend the workshop. The workshop is part of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing 2008. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Scope and dynamic perspectives in business process modeling • Essential elements in representing business processes • Business processes for Services Science • Critical appraisal of business process modeling techniques • Theoretical framework adopted in business process models • Importance of graphical representation for process modeling • Human perception influencing effective communication • Cognitive psychological restricting to representational inference making • Organizational semiotics eliciting representational semantics Important Dates • Papers: March 22, 2008 EXTENDED TO March 29 • Acceptance Notification: April 2, 2008 • Camera-ready versions: April 15, 2008