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<p class="MsoPlainText">Call for papers: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">2nd International Workshop on Decision Mining & Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP’14).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Held in conjunction with BPM 2014 Haifa, Israel, September 7th - 11th 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Submission deadline: June 8, 2014 (EXTENDED)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/demimop14">http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/demimop14</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The DeMiMoP’14 is the 2nd workshop aiming at discovering and modeling decisions for business processes. The goals of this workshop include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- (i) to examine the relationship between decisions and processes;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- (ii) to enhance decision mining based on process data;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- (iii) to examine decision goals, structures, and their connection with business processes, in order to find a good integration between decision modeling and process modeling;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- (iv) 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.;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- (v) to show best practices in separating process and decision concerns.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper submission deadline: Sunday, June <span style="color:black">
8</span>, 2014<span style="color:black"> (extension!)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, July 1, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera ready: Wednesday, July 23, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop day: Monday, September 8, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Full program to be announced later.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Description<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Most processes and business process models incorporate decisions of some kind. Decisions are typically based upon a number of business (decision) rules that describe the premises and possible outcomes of a specific situation. Since these
decisions guide the activities and workflows of all process stakeholders (participants, owners), they should be regarded as first-class citizens in Business Process Management. Sometimes, the entire decision can be included as a decision activity or as a service
(a decision service). Typical decisions are: creditworthiness of the customer in a financial process, claim acceptance in an insurance process, eligibility decision in social security, etc. The process then handles a number of steps, shows the appropriate
decision points and represents the path to follow for each of the alternatives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Business decisions are important, but 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. Decisions can be
straightforward, based on a number of simple rules, or can be the result of complex analytics (decision mining). Moreover, in a large number of cases, a particular business process does not just contain decisions, but the entire process is about making a decision.
The major purpose of a loan process e.g., or an insurance claim process, etc., is to prepare and make a final decision. The process shows different steps, models the communication between parties, records the decision and returns the result.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Decisions, rules and processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Decision mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Decision models and structures<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Data mining, rule mining, process mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Goal driven processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Process metrics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Process maintenance and flexibility<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Human-centered and flexible processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Case studies<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Organizers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Jan Vanthienen (corresponding organizer), Department of Management Informatics, KU Leuven (Belgium)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Guoqing Chen (Tsinghua University, China)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Bart Baesens (KU Leuven)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Qiang Wei (Tsinghua University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Program Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Josep Carmona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Filip Caron, KU Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Robert Golan, DBmind technologies, United States<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Xunhua Guo, Tsinhua University, China<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Jae-Yoon Jung, Kyung Hee University, South Korea<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Dimitris Karagiannis, Universität Wien, Austria<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, England<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Seppe vanden Broucke, KU Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">More information:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/demimop14">http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/demimop14</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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