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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IEEE Transactions on Services Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SPECIAL ISSUE "PROCESSES MEET BIG DATA"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Website: <http://bit.ly/TV0hlO> CFP in PDF: <http://bit.ly/XyMGxz><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*AIMS AND SCOPE*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The aim of process mining is to discover, monitor and improve business processes by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today's information systems. When large-scale processes are executed, e.g., on (cloud-based) service-oriented environments, process logs increasingly exhibit all typical properties of "big data": wide physical distribution, diversity of formats, non-standard data models, heterogeneous semantics. Computing metrics over such "big logs" also requires to handle security and privacy concerns of many participants, and even to deal with non-uniform trustworthiness of log entries. New techniques are therefore required for designing, validating and deploying process metrics in this scenario, as well as for effectively dash-boarding the processes' performance indicators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This special issue of IEEE Transaction on Service-Oriented Computing is intended to create an international forum for presenting innovative developments of process monitoring and analysis over service-oriented architectures, aimed at handling "big logs" and use them effectively for discovery, dash-boarding and mining. The ultimate objective is to identify the promising research avenues, report the main results and promote the visibility and relevance of this new area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The special issue is related to two Dagstuhl Seminars happening in 2013:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Unleashing Operational Process Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=13481><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Verifiably Secure Process-Aware Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=13341><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*TOPICS COVERED*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process monitoring on SOA and clouds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Validation and benchmarking of process monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Efficiently mining rare patterns in "big logs"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Scalable techniques for distributed process monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Monitoring and analysis of cloud-based processes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Architectures and data models for synthesizing and handling "big logs"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Privacy-aware computation of process metrics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Securing log data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Log obfuscation and access control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Practical systems and tools for big log analysis and log dashboards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Applications combining process management and big data, e.g. audit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*IMPORTANT DATES*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Aug. 1, 2013: Submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Nov. 1, 2013: Notification of the first-round review <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jan. 10, 2014: Revised submission due <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mar. 1, 2014: Final notice of acceptance/reject<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instruction of the "Information for Authors" section of the journal. Submissions should be done through the IEEE TSC journal website: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsc-ieee/>. Submitted manuscripts will be thoroughly reviewed using the standard procedure that is followed for regular IEEE TSC submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*GUEST EDITORS*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Wil M.P. van der Aalst (TU Eindhoven, NL) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rafael Accorsi (U of Freiburg, DE) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Ernesto Damiani (U of Milan, IT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>