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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Apologies if you receives multiple copies of this CFP]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>############################################################################<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Fourth International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>################################ SIMPDA 2014 ###############################<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- <a href="http://simpda2014.di.unimi.it/">http://simpda2014.di.unimi.it/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- IFIP Working Groups 2.6 and 2.12/12.4 - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Milano, Italy, November 19th-21th -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># About SIMPDA #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 - 2.12 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Milan, the city of Expo 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Call for Papers #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2013) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modeling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume with an ISBN. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for early 2014 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-- Topics --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Business Process modeling languages, notations and methods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Data-aware and data-centric approaches <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Variability and configuration of process models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process Mining with Big Data <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process simulation and static analyses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process data query languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Privacy-aware process data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process metadata and semantic reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process patterns and standards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Foundations of business process models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Resource management in business process execution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process tracing and monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process change management and evolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Business process lifecycle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Case studies and experience reports <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Social process discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Crowdsourced process definition and discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-- Workshop Format --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project/ideas/goals/etc that they got out of the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Call for PhD Research Plans #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research plans should be at most of 4 page long and should be organized following the following structure: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Abstract: summarizes, in 5 line, the research aims and significance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research stage: describes what the student has done so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- SIMPDA PhD award -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Student Scholarships #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Keynote Speakers #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jorge Cardoso<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>University of Coimbra, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Compliance of Business Processes with Reference Models -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Reference models provide best practices to design effective and efficient business processes. However, a main challenge is to evaluate how these best practices are implemented. One limitation of existing approaches is the assumption that compliance can be determined using the notion of process equivalence. Nonetheless, the use of equivalence algorithms is not suitable since two models can have different structures but one process can still be compliant with the other. This talk presents an approach to measure the compliance of process models with reference models, which was used by a German passenger airline using IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) reference models. The talk also covers various initiatives to evaluate the quality and understandability of process models.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal># Industrial Talks #<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Claudia Sebastiani<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Creativi Quadrati, Partner openERP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Business Process Measurement in small enterprises after the installation of an ERP software -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We report the observation of the first six months of operation after the installation of an ERP software in a group of small Italian enterprises (some dealers of various products and one manufacturer). Before the ERP, no explicit process descriptions existed within the companies: the operations were manually performed, using office automation software or legacy programs that were not process oriented. The new ERP is equipped with a workflow engine, a number of standard processes that should be followed by the users, and a tracking system that logs the main steps of the processes. We use process mining tools to analyze the events logged by the ERP during the sales, the purchases and the manufacture cycles. Our aim is to 1) compare the ideal processes suggested by the ERP with the real paths followed by the users 2) describe the eventual adaptation of these paths, as the users became acquainted with the ERP 3) highlight critical segments in terms of time spent, iterations, etc. 4) compare the processes of different companies that are in similar business areas. The final goal is to get a better understanding of the processes and a rationalization of the operations. It must be stressed that both the ERP and the main tools used are open source, so that the process measurement is affordable even for very small (micro) enterprises.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gregorio Piccoli<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zucchetti<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Hierarchical clustering for managers -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Data Mining and Process Mining over big amount of data are today more and more requested by companies. However managers do not have the necessary competences for handling the results of analysis ran using these techniques. For this reason data visualization is a key element to exploit the full potential of data analysis. Zucchetti spa has developed an in-house approach for constructing user-friendly data visualizers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gabriele Ruffatti<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Engineering Ingegneria Informatica<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- A living story: measuring quality of developments in a large industrial software factory with Open Source Software -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Open Source has no more intrinsic value per se. Nowadays it is facing new challenges, such as stimulating creativity and bringing innovation into market. One of its major challenges consists in delivering valuable outcomes, which requires a PMAI approach: Plan metrics and dimensions of analysis, get Measures and global performance value from data, Assess results and Improve processes by solving issues and removing bottlenecks. Engineering Group uses Open Source Software to makes this happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Spago4Q, the analytic of the business intelligence suite SpagoBI, allows the company to measure the quality of products, processes and services and to monitor the continuous improvement of quality practices. The measurement and enhancement of productivity complies with quality certifications such as ISO and CMMi standards. QESTnd - an n-dimensional measurement model - allows to collect performance values on three dimensions of analysis (Economical, Social and Technical) in order to identify process areas that need improvements. Drill-down capabilities provide both a unified view of the global performance of the Labs and detailed views of the single process dimensions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Organizers #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CHAIRS <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Paolo Ceravolo, Universitą degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ADVISORY BOARD <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Ernesto Damiani, Universitą degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Tharam Dillon, La Trobe University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Philippe Cudre-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Important Dates #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Submission of Full Papers: September 15th 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Submission of PhD Research Plans: September 15th 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Notification of Acceptance: October 15th 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Submission of Camera Ready Papers: November 10th 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Program Committee #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT>- Meiko Jensen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Helen Balinsky, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- Karima Boudaoud, Ecole Polytechnique de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Marcello Leida, EBTIC (Etisalat BT Innovation Centre), UAE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Chintan Amrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Marco Montali, Free Unviersity of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Elizabeth Chang, University New South Wales, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Peter Spyns, Flemish Government, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Angelo Corallo, University of Salento, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Antonio Mana Gomez, University of MĆ”laga, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Chi Hung, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Alessandra Toninelli, Engineering Group, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Abder Koukam, University of Technology, UTBM France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven TU, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Edgar Weippl, TU Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Minseok Song, UNIST, South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Josep Carmona, UPC - Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Maria Leitner, University of Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Benoit Depaire, University of Hasselt, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Babiga Birregah, University of Technology of Troyes, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US># Historical Information on Previous Editions #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SIMPDA was proposed in 2011 and 2012 by IFIP WG 2.6 and 2.12/12.4 as the International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The symposium had around 30 attendees in 2011 and 20 in 2012. It featured a number of keynotes illustrating new approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, and a competitive PhD seminar, together with selected research and industrial demonstrations. The authors of the accepted papers have been invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume published in the Springer LNBIP series.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Several events and activities arose off these symposia, among the most notables we have two Dagstuhl seminars: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, January 24-29, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dagstuhl Seminar on Unleashing Operational Process Mining, November 24-29, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The venue was for both editions Campione d'Italia, the Italian enclave surrounded by Swiss territory, on the shores of Lake Lugano.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>