[AISWorld] Business Process Management Dissertation Award

[Jan Mendling]

Call for Best BPM Dissertation Award


The Steering Committee of the International Conference on Business Process
Management is happy to announce the new Best BPM Dissertation Award.


Eligibility


Eligible as candidates are all dissertations that have been officially
completed between 01 January and 31 December 2017. We invite theses from a
broad spectrum of topics that relate to BPM. These topics include, but are
not limited to:

*	BPM and strategy
*	BPM and innovation
*	BPM and governance
*	BPM methods
*	Process mining
*	Process modelling and analysis
*	BPM and decision management
*	BPM enactment architectures and process execution
*	BPM techniques and algorithms
*	BPM and organizational culture
*	BPM and various stakeholders
*	BPM and organizational routines
*	BPM and IT implementation
*	BPM and process-aware information systems
*	BPM and new types of coordination and collaboration
*	BPM and new technologies

We explicitly embrace any type of research no matter which research methods
have been used. This means that dissertations that have been conducted using
formal methods, empirical methods or design methods are equally welcome.


Prize


The winner will receive the award at the BPM Conference 2018 in Sydney,
Australia. The award is connected with a prize of 1,500 AUD and a free
registration for the conference.


Nomination and Submission


Candidates are nominated by their primary supervisor using a nomination
letter. Each professor is only allowed to nominate one candidate. The
candidate is responsible for submitting the nomination material via
Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmdiss2018) including
the following documents as a single PDF file:

1.	5-page extended abstract (in Springer
<http://www.springer.com/de/it-informatik/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidel
ines> 's LNCS format) of the thesis with the title "<thesis-title> (Extended
Abstract)"
2.	Nomination letter by supervisor (not longer than 2 pages)
3.	PhD evaluation report including the reviews of the dissertation
4.	CV of the candidate including publication list
5.	Full document of the dissertation

We plan to publish all extended abstracts that are relevant to this call as
a volume of CEUR online proceedings.


Selection Process


The winner of the award will be determined in two steps. First, a review
committee will evaluate the submission material and identify a short list of
three candidates. Second, these three candidates will be invited to give a
presentation of their work in an online session with the review jury. The
jury will then select the winner. The selection process will be directed by
the following criteria:

*	Originality and depth of contribution,
*	Methodological soundness,
*	Form and quality of presentation, and
*	Significance for the research field.


Important Dates


*	30 April 2018: Deadline for submission of thesis
*	26 May 2018: Notification whether thesis is short listed
*	18 June 2018: Online session with short-listed candidates
*	The Notification of the winner will be at the BPM Conference in
Sydney, Australia.


More Details: http://bpm2018.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/Award.html


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