[AISWorld] Extended CfP - BPI 2018 (9-10 Sep, 2018, Sydney)

[Jan Claes]

(Sorry for cross-postings)

(Extended deadline! 8 June, 2018)


                         Call for Papers

 14th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 18)



                to be held in conjunction with BPM 2018

                         Sydney, Australia

                           September 9-10, 2018

                     http://www.win.tue.nl/bpi/2018



CALL FOR PAPERS

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Business Process Intelligence is an area that spans process mining (i.e., process discovery, conformance checking, etc.), predictive analytics and many other techniques that are all gaining interest and importance in industry and research. BPI refers to the application of various measurement and analysis techniques in the area of business process management. In practice, BPI is embodied in tools for managing process execution quality by offering several features such as analysis, prediction, monitoring, control, and optimization.



The goal of this workshop is to provide a better understanding and a more appropriate support of company processes at design time and the way they are handled at runtime, focussing on processes in isolation as well as the interplay between many parallel processes both within and between companies.



We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities such as business process management, information systems research, business administration, software engineering, artificial intelligence, process mining, and data mining, who share an interest in the analysis of business processes and process-aware information systems. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences.



The workshop is sponsored by the DeLiBiDa project (Desire Lines in Big Data), which is a project of NWO (i.e., the Dutch Science Foundation), aimed at scaling up process mining to handle huge event logs in a big data context (i.e., high volume, velocity, variety, etc.).



The list of topics that are relevant to the BPI workshop includes the following, but is not limited to:



Analysis techniques at design time and/or runtime:

- Mining of business processes from event logs

- Mining of non-process aware systems / event streams

- Multi perspective process mining

- Statistical analysis in the business process management lifecycle

- Predictive analytics

- Recommender systems

- Conformance / compliance analysis

- Root cause analysis for process deviations

- Business process visualization

- Visualization of process mining results

- Machine-learning and business processes

- Measurement of business process models and business process modeling

- Information retrieval related to business process management

- Similarity related to processes and cases

- Integration of processes and process models

- Mathematical optimization of business processes

- Simulation of business processes



Applications of such analysis techniques and case studies in:



- Performance Measurement of business processes

- Business Process Reengineering

- Business Process Quality

- Emergent workflows

- Process discovery

- Conformance and risk management for business processes

- Operations Management and Six Sigma

- Data warehousing

- Static and dynamic optimization

- Self-management

- Monitoring of business processes

- Resource Allocation in business processes

- Prediction

- Dynamic composition of business processes




Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality and technical quality. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution and the relation to previous research. In parallel with the workshop, there is a BPI challenge, sponsored by Minit and Celonis, which provides an opportunity to analyze a real-world event log and to win the flight to Sydney!



For more information, please refer to the website (http://www.win.tue.nl/bpi/2018).




Submission guide

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The length of a paper must not exceed 12 pages, and there is no possibility to buy additional pages. Authors are requested to prepare submissions according to the LNCS/LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0) specified by Springer. Papers should be submitted electronically through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpi2018). Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee.




Important Dates

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Abstract submission deadline:  (18  May 2018) => 8 June 2018

Paper submission deadline:     (25  May 2018) => 8 June 2018

Notification of acceptance:    26 June 2018

Camera ready:                  13 July 2018

Workshop day:                  9-10 September 2018




Organizers

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- Boudewijn van Dongen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (corresponding organizer)

- Jan Claes, Ghent University, Belgium

- Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, Belgium

- Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark



The workshop is co-organized by the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining. The goal of this Task Force is to promote the research, development, education and understanding of process mining. For more information about the activities of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and its members see http://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/.