Modern manufacturing value chains require intelligent orchestration of processes across company borders to maximize profits while fostering social and environmental sustainability. However, despite the overwhelming consent among the relevant stakeholders about the relevance of cross-organizational information exchange for mastering the transition from a linear to a circular economy, privacy concerns related to data sharing still prevail.  

The "1st International Workshop on Federated Process Modeling (IWFPM)" aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and experts to explore novel solutions addressing the intersection of process modeling, cross-organizational collaboration, and privacy-preserving machine learning in the context of modern manufacturing value chains. This workshop will serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and advancements in federated process modeling, with the goal of fostering sustainable, collaborative, and secure practices in the era of interconnected value chains.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full/ Regular paper submissions about original work not exceeding 10 pages.
• Short paper submissions on recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas not exceeding 5 pages.

Papers submission will be managed using www.easychair.org. If you have used this system previously for other conferences, you can use the same username and password. If this is the first time you are using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking the "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Online papers submission https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwfpm2024.

List of Topics

• Federated Process Modeling Techniques: Advances in federated modeling of interconnected processes; Techniques and methodologies for ensuring data privacy
• Cross-Organizational Information Exchange: Realizing secure data sharing and collaboration in manufacturing value chains; Privacy-preserving data aggregation and handling; Ensuring compliance with privacy regulations 
• Scalability of FL facing systems and infrastructure challenges: Coping with computational and communication overhead; Handling data and system heterogeneity
• Incentive Mechanisms for Data Federation: Ensuring security and trustworthiness; Quantification of contributions; Fair profit-sharing schemes 
• Orchestrating Manufacturing Value Chains: Integrated optimization of value chains; Real-world Applications of Federated Process Modeling; Tools and resources (e.g., benchmark datasets, open-source frameworks, …)

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Ramin Nikzad-Langerodi, SCCH, Austria
• Mohit Kumar, SCCH, Austria
• Geert van Kollenburg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherland

Program Committee

• Please refer to our website https://www.dexa.org/IWFPM2024

Publication

All accepted IWFPM2024 papers will be published by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). CCIS volumes are indexed in Scopus; EI Engineering Index; Google Scholar; DBLP; etc. and submitted for indexing in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science.

Venue

The conference will be held in University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to dexa@iiwas.org