Summary

This full-day workshop focuses on practical and theoretical consequences of the approach to describe business interactions within the framework of protocol theory

The relevance of software directly involved in business interactions has enormously grown in modern commerce within the last years.

Therefore, it is an obvious requirement that business software which supports business interactions should mirror the orientation of entrepreneurial acting along the business interactions in the simplest possible way.

To become runtime relevant from an application perspective, the interpretation of the descriptions of business interactions has to be unambiguously related to computational systems.

We expect a promising impetus with respect to the automated implementation of business interactions. Especially small and medium enterprises should benefit as they are currently discouraged to explore this area by the still high initial investments.

The starting point of this workshop is the assumption that economics with its game theory based notion describes the same interactions as computer science does with its descriptions of nondeterministic interactions of business processes. Due to the tight formal relation between (economic) game and (computer science) protocol, it is obvious to use the protocol notion not just for informal illustrations, as many contemporary approaches do, but also to view protocol theory as a sound formal base for the description of business interactions in the sense of a theory for consistent finite interaction of (possibly finite) systems.

This workshop brings together scientist of the field of business informatics with a special interest in business interactions and scientist of the more theoretical oriented field of protocol theory. We therefore invite scientific contributions which demonstrate the relevance of protocol theory for the formal description of nondeterministic business interactions either in practical or theoretical respect, if applicable with a relation to game theory.

Duration: 1 day

For participation at the workshop, registration at INFORMATIK 2012 is required.

• 07. May 2012: Extended deadline for submissions
• 30. May 2012: Notification of acceptance
• 23. June 2012: Submissions of final versions
• 16.-21. September 2012: GMDS / GI conference in Braunschweig
• 19. September 2012: PMBI2012 Workshop

Contributions can be submitted in English or German at EasyChair. In a first step you have to provide all authors, a title and a summary. Next you can upload your article as PDF, formatted according to the guidelines of the GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)". It may not exceed 15 pages in this format.

The submissions will be refereed, and accepted contributions will be published in GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics."

At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and to give a talk about the contribution.

• Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg
• Bernd Finkbeiner, Universität des Saarlandes
• Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Universität Bremen
• Martin Leucker, Universität Lübeck
• Lars Mönch, Fernuniversität Hagen
• Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg
• Elke Pulvermueller, Universität Osnabrück
• Johannes Reich (Co-Chair), SAP, Walldorf
• Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
• Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• Mareike Schoop, Universität Hohenheim
• Andreas Speck (Co-Chair), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Herwig Unger, Fernuniversität Hagen
• Wolf Zimmermann, Universität Halle

• "Games, Business Processes and Models of Interactions" of the 39. GI-Jahrestagung 2009 in Lübeck
• PMBI2010 of the 40. GI Jahrestagung 2010 in Leipzig
• PMBI2011 of the 41. GI Jahrestagung 2011 in Berlin