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Call for Papers
DeHMiMoP 2018
6th International Workshop on
Declarative/Decision/Hybrid Mining and Modelling for Business
Processes
https://ai.wu.ac.at/dehmimop2018/
Sydney, Australia, 10 September 2018
Co-located with BPM '18
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In this workshop, we are interested in the application and
challenges of decision-based, rule-based and hybrid modelling in
all phases of the BPM lifecycle (identification, discovery,
analysis, redesign, implementation and monitoring).
* Important Dates *
- June 11, 2018: Manuscript submission [EXTENDED!]
- July 4, 2018: Notification of acceptance
- August 17, 2018: Camera-ready version
- September 10, 2018: Workshop
* Scope *
Processes and business process models involve rules and decisions
describing the premises and possible outcomes of specific
situations. However, important though they are, rules and
decisions 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. For
knowledge-intensive processes it is common that rules and
decisions, as opposed to the process-flow, define the allowed
behaviour of a process. E.g., the major purpose of an insurance
claim process is to ensure that the rules governing the claim are
being followed and to arrive at a final decision.
While traditional imperative notations such as BPMN excel at
describing "happy paths", they turn out to be rather inadequate
for modelling rules and decisions. Imperative notations indeed
tend to describe possible behaviour as alternative, restricted
flows. But encompassing all possible variations makes imperative
models cluttered and thus impractical in highly flexible
scenarios. Against this background, a new declarative modelling
paradigm has been proposed that aims to directly capture the
business rules or constraints underlying the process. The approach
has gained momentum in recent years, and several declarative
notations have been developed such as Declare, DCR Graphs, DMN,
GSM and eCRG. Lately, there has been a rapidly growing interest in
hybrid approaches, which combine the strengths of different
modelling paradigms.
In this workshop, we are interested in the application and
challenges of decision- and rule-based modelling in all phases of
the BPM lifecycle (identification, discovery, analysis, redesign,
implementation and monitoring).
The purpose of the workshop is therefore:
- To examine the relationship between rules, decisions and
processes, including models; not only to model the process , but
also to model the rules and decisions.
- To enhance rule and decision mining based on process data (e.g.
event logs)
- To examine decision goals, structures , and their connection
with business processes, in order to find a good integration
between rule- and decision-based modelling and flow-based
modelling.
- To examine standards (DMN, CMMN, BPMN) and their integration.
- 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.
- To study the integration between different modelling paradigms.
- To show best practices in separating process, rule and decision
concerns.
* Topics of interest *
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Declarative and hybrid (process modelling) approaches
- Declarative notations (Declare, DCR Graphs, GSM, eCRG, ...)
- Decision & goal notations (DMN, PDM, ...)
- Case management notations (CMMN, ...)
- Hybrid notations
- Declarative and hybrid modelling methodologies
- Process metrics
- Process maintenance and flexibility
- Human-centered and flexible processes
- Decision rules and processes
- Decision models and structures
- Formal analysis (e.g. expressiveness proofs) of declarative and
hybrid notations
- Formal verification (e.g. model-checking and static analysis) of
declarative and hybrid models
- Run-time adaptation of declarative and hybrid process models
Decision mining and declarative/hybrid process mining
- Decision mining
- Declarative process mining
- Hybrid process mining
- Data mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis
- Rule mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis
Applications of decision- and rule-modelling in BPM
- Goal-driven processes
- Knowledge-intensive processes
- Business process compliance
- Knowledge workflow management
- Usability and understandability studies
- Case studies
- Tools
* Format of the Workshop *
The workshop will begin with a keynote, followed by presentations
of accepted papers. Full papers have 20 minutes for their
presentations and 10 minutes for discussion and Q&A. Short
papers have 15 + 5 minutes. At the end of the workshop, there will
be a closing panel discussion.
Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members guaranteeing that only papers presenting high
quality work and innovative research in areas relevant to the
workshop theme will be accepted.
All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. They
will be distributed electronically on USB sticks. The
post-proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series, in a
single volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops.
During a time window after the conference the workshop
participants will be granted the free download of the papers.
* Submission *
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the
topics of the workshop. Papers must be written in English. The
following types of submission are accepted:
- full research papers and experience papers (max. 12 pages),
- short papers (position paper, work in progress, software
demonstration; max. 6 pages).
Submissions must be prepared according to the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) format specified by Springer (see
instructions [1]). The title page must contain a short abstract
and a list of keywords, preferably using the list of topics given
above. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair
[2].
At least one author of each accepted manuscript must register for
the workshop and present the paper.
[1]
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
[2]
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dehmimop2018
* Program Committee *
- Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Josep Carmona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Massimiliano de Leoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
- Riccardo De Masellis, Stockholm University, Italy
- Johannes De Smedt, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., United States
- María Teresa Gómez-López, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Xunhua Guo, Tsinghua University, China
- Thomas Hildebrandt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Fabrizio M. Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Jorge Munoz-Gama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,
Chile
- Artem Polyvyanyy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Stefan Schönig, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Lucinéia H. Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
- Han van der Aa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Wil M.P. van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam,
Germany
* Organisers *
- Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria
- Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dennis Schunselaar, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Søren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Contact *
Please contact the organisers via email at the following address:
dehmimop2018@easychair.org
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