Manfred Reichert war eingeladener Keynote-Sprecher des im Rahmen der BPM’14-Konferenz veranstalteten International Workshop on Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems (BPCAS’14). Die BPM'14 fand vom 8. bis 11. September 2014 an der TU Eindhoven in den Niederlanden statt. Ursprünglich war Haifa, Israel, als Austragungsort vorgesehen, jedoch erforderte die aktuelle Lage eine kurzfristige Verlegung der Tagung nach Eindhoven. Die Universität Ulm war im Jahr 2009 Ausrichter dieser international renommierten Tagungsreihe.

Manfred Reichert - Collective Adaptive Process-Aware Systems: Challenges, Scenarios, Techniques
Eingeladene Keynote, Int'l Workshop on Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems (BPCAS'14), Eindhoven, 8. September 2014

Zusammenfassung (in Englisch):
Industry is increasingly demanding coordination support for adaptive process structures consisting of large collections of autonomous, interacting processes. Engineering a car, for example, requires the coordination of development processes for hundreds of car components across organizational borders. Each of these development processes itself comprises a number of interdependent processes for designing, testing, and releasing the respective component. Usually, the resulting process structure becomes very large and is characterized by a strong relation with the assembly of the product. A particular challenge of any collective adaptive process-aware system supporting this kind of scenario is to allow for dynamic adaptations of single autonomous processes, while preservering the consistency of its interactions with other dependent processes. This keynote talk will discuss the challenges emerging in this context. Further, it will give insights into advanced techniques tackling these challenges and enabling advanced support for collective, adaptive and process-aware systems.