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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">== CALL FOR PAPERS ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">SPECIAL SESSION ON<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYTICS, PROCESS MINING AND PROCESS BIG DATA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">December 9-12, 2014, Orlando, Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The IEEE Task Force on Process Mining is organizing a special session at the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The goal of this special session is to allow experts in the area of process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">mining and (big) data analysis to share new techniques, applications and case<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">studies. Therefore, submissions of papers on new process mining techniques,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">applications of process mining, business intelligence, process discovery,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">conformance checking, process intelligence, big data analysis, etc. are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Process mining is a relatively young research discipline that sits between<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">computational intelligence and data mining on the one hand and process modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and analysis on the other hand. The idea of process mining is to discover,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">monitor and improve real processes (i.e., not assumed processes) by extracting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">knowledge from event logs readily available in today's systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">We now live in a time where the amount of data created daily goes easily beyond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the storage and processing capabilities of nowadays systems: organizations,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">governments but also individuals generate large amounts of data at a rate that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">has started to overwhelm the ability to timely extract useful knowledge from it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nevertheless the strategic importance of the knowledge hidden in such data, for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">effective decision making is paramount and need to be extracted quickly in order<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to effectively react to dynamic situations. Efficient stream processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">approaches for real time analysis are crucial for enabling the predictive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">capabilities required by today's dynamically and rapidly evolving enterprises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Moreover, since the work of medium-large enterprises is typically governed by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">business processes, it is very common to have event data generated as result of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">such process executions that can be used as input for process mining techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">== TOPICS OF INTEREST ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Storage and extraction of big process logs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Process mining approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Online process mining (stream processing)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Distributed approaches for process mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Business process intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Data mining for process management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Specific computational intelligence applications in process mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Case studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">== IMPORTANT DATES ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper submission: June 15, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Decision: September 5, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Final paper submission: October 5, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">== ORGANIZERS ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Andrea Burattin, University of Padua, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fabrizio M. Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Marcello Leida, Etisalat BT Innovation Centre, UAE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">== MORE INFORMATION ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Visit the conference website www.ieee-ssci.org or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">http://cidm2014.processmining.it for detailed submission information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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