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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

            32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

     Track on Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture

                  3-7 April 2017, Marrakech, Morocco

                  http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacbpmea17/

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             NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 8, 2016

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Aims and rationale
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The BPMEA track aims at gathering researchers and practitioners around
the broad topics of business processes and enterprise architecture with
a special interest in modeling. These disciplines are quickly evolving
and intertwining with each other, and are often referred to with the
broad term of business modeling. While several researches are addressing
these aspects, there is still a strong need of exploring new paths of
improvement and consolidation.

We seek contributions in the areas of enterprise and systems architecture 
and modeling, multilevel models tracing and alignment, models 
transformation, IT & business alignment (both in terms of modeling and 
goals), tackling both technical (languages, systems, patterns, tools) 
and social (collaboration, human-in-the-loop) issues.

We seek original, unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on, 
but not necessarily limited to, the following topics:

- Models and architectures based on the abstraction of processes, 
  services and events
- Business Processes Modeling and Management
- Business Process Management and Social Software
- Semantic Business Process
- Collaborative BPM
- Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM
- Enterprise and system modelling: languages, methods, tools
- Enterprise modelling patterns
- Collaborative enterprise modeling
- Model-driven approaches
- Service engineering
- Complex event processing and event-driven architectures
- Human and social aspects in enterprise and system modeling
- Mobile enterprise services and applications
- Enterprise 2.0 and beyond
- Business and IT architecture modernization
- Innovation process in enterprise architectures

Proceedings and Post-Proceedings
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Papers accepted for the Business Process Management & Enterprise 
Architecture track will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2017 
proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the 
paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy 
attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the 
paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show 
of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the 
ACM/IEEE digital library.

*** The authors of the best papers presented at the track will be 
invited to submit an extended version of their work to a Special Issue 
of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.

Student Research Competition (SRC) Program
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Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts 
(maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the 
instructions published at SAC 2017 website. Submission of the 
same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and 
practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are 
submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 18 students) will have 
the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work 
and compete for three top-winning places. The SRC committee will 
evaluate and select First, Second, and Third place winners. 
The winners will receive medals, cash awards, and SIGAPP recognition 
certificates during the conference banquet. Invited students receive 
SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP 
Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support. 

Paper Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered. This includes three categories of submissions:

1. original and unpublished research;
2. reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences,
   engineering, business, government, education and industry;
3. reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.

Each submitted paper will undergo a blind review process and will be
refereed by at least three referees.  
To ease blind review, *you shall remove author names* from your 
paper before submitting it.
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 
2017 proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using
the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2017 web site).
Accepted full papers should not exceed 6 pages in a double column
format (with the option, for an additional per-page fee, to add 2 more 
pages).

Relevant Dates
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 - November 8, 2016: Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED)
 - November 18, 2016: Author notification
 - December 2, 2016: Camera-ready copies due
 - December 10, 2016: Authors registration due

Track chairs and contacts
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- Davide Rossi, University of Bologna
- Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano

E-mail contact: sacbpmea17@cs.unibo.it