[AISWorld] Deadline Extension: First Workshop on Decision and Rule Mining 2015 (DRUM'15)

[Claudio Di Ciccio]

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 14TH, 2015

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** CALL FOR PAPERS **

1ST WORKSHOP ON DECISION AND RULE MINING (DRUM'15)

in conjunction with ICSOC 2015

November 16-19, GOA, INDIA



Procedural process modelling languages, such as BPMN, Petri nets, UML ADs,
EPCs and BPEL, are very useful in environments that are stable and where
the decision procedures are predictable and can be predefined. With these
languages, process participants can be guided step-by-step by process
models in process executions.

The declarative approach is alternative (though non-exclusive) to the
procedural one. Declarative specifications, instead of explicitly detailing
all possible sequences of tasks in a process, implicitly detail the allowed
behavior of the process with constraints, i.e., rules that can be enforced
at design time or during the process execution. This type of specifications
can also be used together with procedural specifications, e.g., in hybrid
approaches or to impose declarative constraints on procedural models.

In both procedural and declarative approaches, business conditions on data,
i.e., business decisions, can be used to drive either the choice of the
path to follow (in the procedural case) or the application of a rule (in
the declarative case).

Making explicit the rules and the decisions that are embedded in procedures
or orthogonal to procedural specifications allows business analysts and
designers to explicitly define the business logics underlying processes or
the constraints to be applied on top of them. Business decision rules can
be described by means of declarative models (e.g., Declare models), through
sets of logical formulas (e.g., LTL formulas), using special notations
(e.g., ORM) or even in natural language.

Rules and decisions can be explicitly modeled together with or instead of
procedural models; mined from online or completed process executions; used
to analyze existing procedures by detecting deviances and rule violations;
enforced against existing processes and process executions;  applied to
improve and re-design process models.



** KEY TOPICS **

The workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Business and Decision Rules
- Rule Notations, Specifications and Languages
- User-friendly Notations for defining Rules and Decisions
- Declarative Process Modelling
- Rule Checking and Verification
- Rule, Decision and Process Mining
- Norms and Laws
- Flexible Processes
- Case Studies and Empirical Evaluations



** WEBSITE **

https://ai.wu.ac.at/drum2015



** IMPORTANT DATES **

Submission: August 14, 2015 (EXTENDED, HARD DEADLINE)
Notification: September 14, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Camera Ready: September 30, 2015
Workshop: November 16, 2015



** SUBMISSIONS **

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research
papers. Papers should be written in English, strictly following Springer
LNCS style including all text, references, appendices, and figures. For
formatting instructions and templates, see the Springer Web page:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The following types of submissions are accepted:
- Full research papers and experience papers with a maximum length of 12
pages, including references and appendices.
- Short papers and position papers with a maximum length of 6 pages,
including references and appendices.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the electronic submission system
available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=drum2015



** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS **

Claudio Di Ciccio, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.
Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK-IRST, Italy.
Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM India Software Lab, India.


Please, contact the chairs at drum2015 at ai.wu.ac.at
-- 
Dr. Claudio Di Ciccio
WU Vienna
Institute for Information Business
Building D2, Entrance C, 3rd Floor
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria

Email: claudio.di.ciccio at wu.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 31336 5222
Fax: +43 1 31336 905222