[AISWorld] CfP: Declarative/Decision/Hybrid Mining and Modelling for Business Processes [deadline extended]

[Claudio Di Ciccio]

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   Call for Papers

   DeHMiMoP 2018

   6th International Workshop on
   Declarative/Decision/Hybrid Mining and Modelling for Business Processes

   https://ai.wu.ac.at/dehmimop2018/

   Sydney, Australia, 10 September 2018
   Co-located with BPM '18

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In this workshop, we are interested in the application and challenges of 
decision-based, rule-based and hybrid modelling in all phases of the BPM 
lifecycle (identification, discovery, analysis, redesign, implementation 
and monitoring).


* Important Dates *

- June 11, 2018: Manuscript submission [EXTENDED!]
- July 4, 2018: Notification of acceptance
- August 17, 2018: Camera-ready version
- September 10, 2018: Workshop


* Scope *

Processes and business process models involve rules and decisions 
describing the premises and possible outcomes of specific situations. 
However, important though they are, rules and decisions are often hidden 
in process flows, process activities or in the head of employees (tacit 
knowledge), so that they need to be discovered using state-of-art 
intelligent techniques. For knowledge-intensive processes it is common 
that rules and decisions, as opposed to the process-flow, define the 
allowed behaviour of a process. E.g., the major purpose of an insurance 
claim process is to ensure that the rules governing the claim are being 
followed and to arrive at a final decision.

While traditional imperative notations such as BPMN excel at describing 
"happy paths", they turn out to be rather inadequate for modelling rules 
and decisions. Imperative notations indeed tend to describe possible 
behaviour as alternative, restricted flows. But encompassing all 
possible variations makes imperative models cluttered and thus 
impractical in highly flexible scenarios. Against this background, a new 
declarative modelling paradigm has been proposed that aims to directly 
capture the business rules or constraints underlying the process. The 
approach has gained momentum in recent years, and several declarative 
notations have been developed such as Declare, DCR Graphs, DMN, GSM and 
eCRG. Lately, there has been a rapidly growing interest in hybrid 
approaches, which combine the strengths of different modelling paradigms.

In this workshop, we are interested in the application and challenges of 
decision- and rule-based modelling in all phases of the BPM lifecycle 
(identification, discovery, analysis, redesign, implementation and 
monitoring).

The purpose of the workshop is therefore:
- To examine the relationship between rules, decisions and processes, 
including models; not only to model the process , but also to model the 
rules and decisions.
- To enhance rule and decision mining based on process data (e.g. event 
logs)
- To examine decision goals, structures , and their connection with 
business processes, in order to find a good integration between rule- 
and decision-based modelling and flow-based modelling.
- To examine standards (DMN, CMMN, BPMN) and their integration.
- To study how different process models can be designed to fit a 
decision process, according to various optimization criteria, such as 
throughput time, use of resources, etc.
- To study the integration between different modelling paradigms.
- To show best practices in separating process, rule and decision concerns.


* Topics of interest *

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Declarative and hybrid (process modelling) approaches
- Declarative notations (Declare, DCR Graphs, GSM, eCRG, ...)
- Decision & goal notations (DMN, PDM, ...)
- Case management notations (CMMN, ...)
- Hybrid notations
- Declarative and hybrid modelling methodologies
- Process metrics
- Process maintenance and flexibility
- Human-centered and flexible processes
- Decision rules and processes
- Decision models and structures
- Formal analysis (e.g. expressiveness proofs) of declarative and hybrid 
notations
- Formal verification (e.g. model-checking and static analysis) of 
declarative and hybrid models
- Run-time adaptation of declarative and hybrid process models

Decision mining and declarative/hybrid process mining
- Decision mining
- Declarative process mining
- Hybrid process mining
- Data mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis
- Rule mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis

Applications of decision- and rule-modelling in BPM
- Goal-driven processes
- Knowledge-intensive processes
- Business process compliance
- Knowledge workflow management
- Usability and understandability studies
- Case studies
- Tools


* Format of the Workshop *

The workshop will begin with a keynote, followed by presentations of 
accepted papers. Full papers have 20 minutes for their presentations and 
10 minutes for discussion and Q&A. Short papers have 15 + 5 minutes. At 
the end of the workshop, there will be a closing panel discussion.

Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least three program committee 
members guaranteeing that only papers presenting high quality work and 
innovative research in areas relevant to the workshop theme will be 
accepted.

All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. They will 
be distributed electronically on USB sticks. The post-proceedings will 
be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information 
Processing (LNBIP) series, in a single volume dedicated to the 
proceedings of all BPM workshops. During a time window after the 
conference the workshop participants will be granted the free download 
of the papers.


* Submission *

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the topics of 
the workshop. Papers must be written in English. The following types of 
submission are accepted:
- full research papers and experience papers (max. 12 pages),
- short papers (position paper, work in progress, software 
demonstration; max. 6 pages).
Submissions must be prepared according to the Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science (LNCS) format specified by Springer (see instructions [1]). The 
title page must contain a short abstract and a list of keywords, 
preferably using the list of topics given above. Papers should be 
submitted electronically via EasyChair [2].

At least one author of each accepted manuscript must register for the 
workshop and present the paper.

[1] 
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines 

[2] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dehmimop2018


* Program Committee *

- Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Josep Carmona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Massimiliano de Leoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The 
Netherlands
- Riccardo De Masellis, Stockholm University, Italy
- Johannes De Smedt, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., United States
- María Teresa Gómez-López, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Xunhua Guo, Tsinghua University, China
- Thomas Hildebrandt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Fabrizio M. Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Jorge Munoz-Gama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
- Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Stefan Schönig, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Lucinéia H. Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Han van der Aa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Wil M.P. van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany


* Organisers *

- Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria
- Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dennis Schunselaar, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Søren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark


* Contact *

Please contact the organisers via email at the following address:

   dehmimop2018 at easychair.org