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Call for Papers
DEC2H 2021
9th International Workshop on
DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid approaches to processes
6 September 2021
Co-located with the 19th Int. Conference on Business Process
Management (BPM)
http://dec2h-2020.di.uniroma1.it/
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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
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- Abstract submission deadline (optional): 21 May 2021
- Papers submission deadline: 24 May 2021
- Notification: 24 June 2021
- Camera-ready deadline: 12 July 2021
- Workshop: 6 September 2021
Scope
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Business processes involve rule-bound decisions. For
knowledge-intensive processes, it is common that rules and
decisions, as opposed to the process-flow, define the underlying
structure and 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.
These are highly variable situations, and the processes supporting
them are flexible by nature. This variability and flexibility
calls for explicit statement of the underlying rules and decisions
when describing such processes.
While traditional notations such as BPMN excel at describing
"happy paths", they fall short when modelling flexible and varying
rules and decisions, where such models tend to clutter and become
imprecise or impractical. To meet this challenge declarative
modelling paradigms, which aim to directly capture the business
rules or constraints underlying the process have gained momentum.
This workshop invites work within these topics, whether on
existing formalisms (e.g., DCR, DMN, Declare, CMMN, GSM, eCRG, or
DPIL), or new ones. Contributions may include completed work
(research, case studies and tools), but also work-in-progress and
position papers.
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
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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-centred 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
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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.
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. Papers that are not accepted, yet
reviewed positively, may still be invited for presentation at the
workshop.
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop post-proceedings.
These 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.
At least one author of each accepted manuscript is required to
register for the workshop and present the paper. Registration is
subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main BPM
2021 conference to be found on its website
(
https://bpm2021.diag.uniroma1.it/).
Submission
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We are interested in research, work-in-progress, position,
case-study and tool papers, either in long (not exceeding 12
pages) or short (not exceeding 6 pages) format. Only papers in
English will be considered. Submitted papers must present original
research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
Authors are requested to prepare submissions according to the
LNBIP format specified by Springer (see the instructions [1] and
the LaTeX-template[2]). The title page must contain a short
abstract and a list of keywords, preferably using the list of
topics given above. Papers must be submitted electronically via
the EasyChair portal [3]: enter the main conference installation
(BPM 2021) at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2021 and select
"9th International Workshop on DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid
approaches to processes" as the submission track.
[1]
https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0
[2]
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/lnbip/author.zip
[3]
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2020
Special Issue
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Depending on their quality, the authors of selected papers in
DEC2H will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of
their work for a special issue in the Journal of Intelligent
Information Systems (JIIS), edited by Springer.
Program Committee
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Rafael Accorsi, PwC, Switzerland
Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Alessio Cecconi, Vienna University of Economics and Business,
Austria
Carl Corea, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Joao Costa Seco, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Massimiliano de Leoni, University of Padua, Italy
Riccardo De Masellis, Uppsala University, Sweden
Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., United States
Maria Teresa Gomez-Lopez, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Xunhua Guo, Tsinghua University, China
Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof Kluza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Fabrizio M. Maggi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Artem Polyvyanyy, University of Melbourne, Australia
Flavia M. Santoro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Stefan Schoenig, Universitaet Regensburg, Germany
Lucineia H. Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Han van der Aa, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam,
Germany
Organisers
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Soren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Claudio Di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Contacts
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Web:
http://dec2h-2021.di.uniroma1.it/
Email:
DEC2H@di.uniroma1.it
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