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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 receive multiple copies of this CFP]<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>SIMPDA 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9-11 DECEMBER, 2015 - VIENNA, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://simpda2015.di.unimi.it"><span lang=EN-US>http://simpda2015.di.unimi.it</span></a> <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><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** About SIMPDA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Vienna, a city in the UNESCO World Heritage List.<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>The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2014) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modeling, representation and privacy-aware analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume of CEUR workshop series. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, <a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911">http://www.springer.com/series/7911</a>), scheduled for early 2015 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review.<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 of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Business Process modeling languages, notations and methods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Lightweight Process Model<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Data-aware and data-centric approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process Mining with Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Variability and configuration of process models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process simulation and static analyses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process data query languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Privacy-aware process data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process metadata and semantic reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process patterns and standards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Foundations of business process models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Resource management in business process execution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process tracing and monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Process change management and evolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Business process lifecycle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Case studies and experience reports<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Social process discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Crowdsourced process definition and discovery<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><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Paper Submission: 25 September 2015<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 of PhD Presentations: 25 September 2015<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>- Notification of Acceptance: 07 November 2015<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 of Camera Ready Papers: 21 November 2015<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>- Second International Symposium on Process Data: 9-11 December 2015<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>- Post-proceeding submissions: 30 March 2016<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>** Workshop Format:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc… that they got out of the workshop.<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 PhD Research Plans<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research plans should be at most of 5 page long and should be organized following the following structure: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Abstract: summarizes, in 5 line, the research aims and significance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research stage: describes what the student has done so far.<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>** SIMPDA PhD award<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Student Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo@unimi.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>** Keynote Speakers<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>- Visual Analytics meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Theresia Gschwandtner and Silvia Miksch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Vienna University of Technology<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>- Contextualisation Techniques in Process Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Schahram Dustdar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Vienna University of Technology, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT>** Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT>CHAIRS <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT>- Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Universität Wien, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ADVISORY BOARD <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland<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>** Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MOHAMED ACHEMLAL, UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- MARCO ANISETTI, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, ITALY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- IRENE VANDERFEESTEN, EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, THE NETHERLANDS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- CLAUDIO ARDAGNA, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, ITALY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- HELEN BALINSKY, HEWLETT-PACKARD LABORATORIES, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MIRCO BIANCO, METROCONSULT ROBERTO DINI AND PARTNERS, ITALY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- JOOS BUIJS, EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, THE NETHERLANDS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- ANTONIO CAFORIO, UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO, ITALY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- CAROLINA CHIAO, UNIVERSITY OF ULM, GERMANY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- TONY CLARK, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- BARABARA WEBER, UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- PAUL COTOFREI, UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL, SWITZERLAND<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- PHILIPPE CUDRE-MAUROUX, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- NORA CUPPENS, ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DE BRETAGNE, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- GIANLUCA DEMARTINI, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- CLAUDIO DI CICCIO, WU VIENNA, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- SCHAHRAM DUSTDAR, VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- GREGOR GRAMBOW, UNIVERSITY OF ULM, GERMANY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- CHRISTIAN GUETL, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MOHAND-SAID HACID, UNIVERSITY OF LYON, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- VINCENT HILAIRE, UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- WEI-CHIANG HONG, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHINA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- MUSTAFA JARRAR, BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY, PALESTINE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- MEIKO JENSEN, RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, GERMANY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- MASSIMO MECELLA, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA, ITALY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- JAN MENDLING, WU VIENNA, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- KWANGHOON PIO KIM, KYONGGI UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- BARBARA RUSSO, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN - BOLZANO, ITALY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- GIOVANNA SISSA, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA, ITALY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MAURICE VAN KEULEN, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, THE NETHERLANDS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MATTHIAS WEIDLICH, IMPERIAL COLLEGE, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- ISABELLA SEEBER, UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- ZEESHAN PERVEZ, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- MARCIN WYLOT, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- JOSE JACOBO ZUBCOFF, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE, SPAIN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- WILFRIED GROSSMANN, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>- KARIMA BOUDAOUD, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** Historical Information on Previous Editions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SIMPDA was proposed in 2011 and 2012 by IFIP WG 2.6 and 2.12/12.4 as the International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The symposium had around 30 attendees in 2011 and 20 in 2012. It featured a number of keynotes illustrating new approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, and a competitive PhD seminar, together with selected research and industrial demonstrations. The authors of the accepted papers have been invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume published in the Springer LNBIP series.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Several events and activities arose off these symposia, among the most notables we have two Dagstuhl seminars: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, January 24-29, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dagstuhl Seminar on Unleashing Operational Process Mining, November 24-29, 2010. <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><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>