The central theme of the BP-Cloud workshop is the adoption of the Cloud Computing paradigm for

business process modelling and analysis. Cloud Computing is a new information technology
performing on-demand delivery of platforms, infrastructures or software as a service. It allows for
network access to a shared set of configurable computing and storage resources as well as
customizable applications. For these reasons, Cloud Computing is an opportunity also from the
perspective of business process modelling and analytics. From the business process modelling
perspective, design-time cloud-based services can increase the collaboration between geographically
dispersed organizations and teams. Moreover, from the business process analytics perspective, Cloud
Computing can offer a more extended shared data recording and a process centered cloud systems
useful to extract information about the underlying processes. The workshop is open to researchers
and practitioners from different communities, such as process mining, business process management,
business process analysis, business process discovery. The workshop is also of interest for the
industrial area, given the increasing need for companies to understand their business processes to
improve process speed, reduce cycle time, increase quality and reduce costs.
The goal of the workshop is to encourage a deeper understanding of how the Cloud Computing
paradigm can be applied in the Business Process Management area advantaging fields like business
process mining, process monitoring, process design. The workshop aims at discussing the current
state of the ongoing research and sharing practical experiences coming from the context of both
academia and industry. Moreover, we hope to give a contribution to encourage new collaborations
between researcher that are working in the involved area increasing the sharing of tools, approaches
and techniques. The workshop will also try to identify new research directions and challenges and is,
therefore, of interest both for those whose research combines business process and cloud computing,
and for those who have primarily worked in one of these areas but want to learn more about the other
one.
Topics of interest include:

Cloud and BPM: concepts and theories

Analysis of Business processes as services
Cloud Computing and BPM: social and technological aspects
Applications of Cloud computing in BPM
Crosscutting Concerns in Business processes as services
BPM as a platform or software service
Cloud-centric flexibility, adaptability and evolution
BPM as a Service (BPaaS / BPMaaS)
Cloud-based Compliance
BPM cloud-based security, privacy and reliability
Design-based BPM in the cloud
Cloud supported BPM design
Languages for design of cloud platform based processes

Execution engines for business processes in cloud

Virtual resources selection and distribution
Load balancing and process/activities/engine scale in/out
Cloud based Process monitoring
New models for BPM delivery and deployment
Cloud Computing and BPM applications case studies
Requirements and definitions of use cases for process in the cloud
Empirical studies about cloud-based BPM

Submission process:
Submitted manuscripts must be written in English and no longer than 12 pages. They must be
formatted using the LNBIP format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted as
a PDF via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpcloud2015).
Submissions will be reviewed by at least three PC members and evaluated on their originality,
significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition. Submitted manuscripts must not
substantially overlap manuscripts that have been published or submitted to another peer-reviewed
conference or journal. The workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop
proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP).
Important Dates
Paper submission: May 25th, 2015
Paper notification: June 29th, 2015
Camera-ready submission: July 20th, 2015
Workshop: August 26th, 2015

Organization Chairs
Mario Luca Bernardi, Unisannio University, Benevento, Italy
Marta Cimitile, University Unitelma Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Program Committee (still to be completed)
Giovanni Acampora, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Naved Ahmed, University of Tartu, Estonia
Mario Luca Bernardi, Unisannio University, Italy
Andrea Burattin, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Cristina Cabanillas, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Marta Cimitile, University Unitelma Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Marco Comuzzi, City University London, UK
Claudio Di Ciccio, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Trento, Italy
Giuseppe Di Lucca, Unisannio University, Italy
Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden
Henrik Leopold, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Luca Pino, City University London, UK
Tijs Slaats, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Oktay Turetken , Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands