[AISWorld] BPM Dissertation Award 2024

[Hajo Reijers]

The Steering Committee of the International Conference on Business Process
Management is
seeking nominations for the Best BPM Dissertation Award 2024.

* Eligibility *

Eligible as candidates are all dissertations that have been officially
completed after 01
January 2023. 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 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.

* 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. Online submissions can be
done via the
BPM 2024 EasyChair submission site (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2024) by
selecting "BPM 2024 Dissertation Award" as Track. A submission must include
the following
documents as a single PDF file

    5-pages extended abstract (in CEUR format) of the thesis with the title
”(Extended
    Abstract)”
    Nomination letter by supervisor (not longer than 2 pages)
    PhD evaluation report including the reviews of the dissertation
    CV of the candidate including publication list
    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 *

14 May 2024: Deadline for submission of thesis
5 June 2024: Notification whether thesis is short listed
26 June 2024: (tentative): Online session with short-listed candidates
The Announcement of the winner will be at the BPM Conference in Kraków

* Jury *

Jan vom Brocke, University of Münster, Germany
Adela del Río Ortega, University of Seville, Spain
Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (chair)
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Mathias Weske, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany

Prof. dr. ir. Hajo Reijers
Universiteit Utrecht
http://www.reijers.com