[ecoop-info] First International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis SIMPDA 2011 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Paolo Ceravolo]

First International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis
SIMPDA 2011
IFIP Working Groups 2.6 and 2.12
http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/SIMPDA2011/
June 29th - July 1st, 2011 Campione d’Italia, Italy

About SIMPDA
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 - 2.12 First 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.
The Symposium will feature a number of advanced keynotes illustrating new approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a  competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. All this in the nice setting of Campione d’Italia, the Italian enclave surrounded by Swiss territory, on the shores of Lake Lugano.

* Call for Papers *
The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis  offers to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modeling, representation and privacy-aware analysis a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results. 
The Symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 10 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. 
Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceedings volume with ISBN. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium volume of LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for late 2011 (extended papers length is between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 15-20 papers will be selected for the publication after a second round of review. 
> Topics
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
	•	Business Process modeling languages, notations and methods
	•	Data-aware and data-centric approaches 
	•	Variability and configuration of process models
	•	Process simulation and static analysis
	•	Process data query languages
	•	Process data mining
	•	Privacy-aware process data mining
	•	Process metadata and semantic reasoning
	•	Process patterns and standards
	•	Foundations of business process models
	•	Security and privacy aspects 
	•	Resource management in business process execution
	•	Process tracing and monitoring
	•	Process change management
	•	Business process lifecycle
	•	Case studies and experience reports 

* Call for PhD Research Plans *
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.
Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions are sought relating to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications, social implications.
> SIMPDA PhD award
A doctoral award will be recognized by the SIMPDA PhD Jury for the best research plan submitted.
> Tutored research activities 
Interested PhD students can apply to carry out pre-symposium tutored research activities. Such activities provide a unique way to identify research questions and will culminate with presentations to be given at the symposium.
In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo at unimi.it
> Student Scholarships
An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP.
In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo at unimi.it

* Call for Demonstrations and Posters *
Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors and should not exceed 2 pages. 
Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. 
Accepted demonstrations or posters will be displayed at the conference. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings.

* Submissions *
Contributions to all calls should be submitted electronically to the Symposium management system connecting to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpda2011. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to participate in the conference and present his/her work. 
Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceedings volume with ISBN. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles in a IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series (http://www.springer.com/series/6102), scheduled for late 2011. Extended versions will be selected for publication in the volume after a second review round of review. 

* Keynote Speakers* 
June 29th 2011
Process Mining: Enabling Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis Using ProM
Wil van der Aalst
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

June 29th 2011
Privacy-preserving Analytics
Florian Kerschbaum
SAP, Germany

June 30th 2011
Variability and Configurability of Business Processes: Why, What, When, and How?
Dragan Gasevic
Athabasca University, Canada

July 1st 2011
Monitoring services for adaptivity: the case of energy efficiency
Barbara Pernici
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

* Industrial Invited  Talks * 
June 30th 2011
Case Study in Process Mining in a Multinational Enterprise
Marcello Leida 
EBTIC (Etisalat BT Innovation Centre), UAE

July 1st 2011
Business opportunities in applying Process Mining to operational and management enterprise processes: the point of view of a Systems Integrator
Antonio Majori and Stefano Scamuzzo
Engineering Group. Italy

* Organizers *

> Conference Co-Chairs

- Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

- Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

- Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia



> Steering Committee
Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
Lionel Brunie, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, France
Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University, Australia
Giuseppina Passiante, Università del Salento, Italy
 

> Conference Program Committee
Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - STAR Lab, Belgium
Daniele Bonetta, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, MIT-CSAIL, U.S.A.
Maurice Van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Avigdor Gal, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Angelo Corallo, Università del Salento, Italy
Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Curtin University, Australia
Thomas Risse, University of Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
Davide Storelli, Università del Salento, Italy
Marcello Leida, EBTIC (Etisalat BT Innovation Centre), UAE
Gabriele Ruffatti, Engineering Group, Italy
Jerzy Korczak, Louis Pasteur University, France

* Important Dates *
- Paper Submission: May 25, 2011.
- Submission of PhD Presentations: May 25, 2011.
- Submission of Demonstration Proposal:  May 25, 2011.
- Notification of Acceptance:  June 7, 2011.
- First International Symposium on Process Data: June 29 - July 1, 2011.
* Registration *
Registration is available through the following form:  http://www.centrovolta.org/SIMPDA2011/
* Accommodation *
All conference activities will take place in the municipal casino of Campione d'Italia.
Hotel Campione is the closest to the casino. A less expensive option is HOTEL BELLEVUE, Corso Fratelli Fusina 1, Campione d’Italia, Tel. 0041916497566.
* Venue *
	1.	From Milan Campione can be reached by car following the A9 motorway MILANO-CHIASSO  and then the A2 motorway CHIASSO-LUGANO, exit at Bissone Melide. A bus starts at Garibaldi square (the square before the Garibaldi railway station) Dep. time from Milano 15.00/20:30- Dep. from Campione 19:00/00:30/3.00.
	2.	Form Malpensa Airport Campione can be reached by car or shuttle in approximately 50 minutes.
	3.	From Lugano Campione can be reached by boat, bus and car and although you have to cross the Swiss-Italian border line to reach it there are no formal border controls. Campione is approximately 9km from Lugano by road, and 15 minutes by boat across the lake. A ferry service runs regularly from Lugano to Campione throughout the day.
More info on: www.campioneitalia.com