BPM Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 2 August, 2014 BPM 2014: One Month to Go This newsletter provides an full research and industry pa- registration deadline has been update on the BPM 2014 pro- pers, and 10 short papers. The extended until 15 August to gram. BPM will take place organizers and chairs are close- give participants more time to in Haifa, Israel’s beauti- ly monitoring the situation in register. Contact the BPM 2014 ful seaport on the Mediterra- Southern Israel and Gaza. We organizers if you have any nean. The program features 3 hope and expect that a firm concerns relating to registra- keynotes, 2 tutorials, 10 work- cease-fire will be reached be- tion and other arrangements shops, and presentations of 21 fore the conference. The early ([email protected]). Interview with Joseph Sifakis In this newsletter you will also the area of model-checking. In find an interview with Turing 2007 he received the Turing Award winner Professor Jo- Award (the "Nobel Prize of seph Sifakis on process model- computing") with Clarke and ing and verification and the Emerson, for his contributions relation between his work and to model-checking. Although BPM. Sifakis is well-known for Joseph did not work on BPM his pioneering work in theo- himself, his techniques have retical and practical aspects of been applied in the context of concurrent systems specifica- business process analysis (e.g. tion and verification, notably in workflow verification). BPM 2014 high- Survey By the BPM 2015 Program Chairs lights BPM survey BPM 2015 will take place in ducted a survey with present Joseph Sifakis Innsbruck. Barbara Weber and past attendees and sub- will be the general chair of mitters to the BPM conference. BPM Roundtable this event. The event will be The survey was intended to “Procesje”: Fun hosted by the University of search for possible points of with BPM Innsbruck. improvement and to gather News from the The Program Committee feedback on the general per- community Chairs of BPM 2015 (Jan ception of the conference. The Recker, Matthias Weidlich, results are included in this and Hamid Motahari) con- newsletter. P AGE 2 B P M N EWSLETTER 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, 7 -12 September 2014, Haifa, Israel BPM 2014 will take place in Haifa. Haifa Given the recent developments in is situated on the Carmel Mountain, Southern Israel and Gaza, the organiz- overlooking the Haifa bay and the ers and chairs are closely following the mountains of Galilee, and has panoram- situation and will update as things un- ic views as well as beautiful sandy fold. They urge participants, and in par- beaches. Haifa is also an industrial cen- ticular presenters in the main confer- ter, housing the R&D labs of interna- ence and the workshops, to contact tional corporations. Israel's rich history them at [email protected] with and cultural heritage attracts millions of any concerns relating to registration tourists each year, with sacred places to and other arrangements. three religions. Some of these sites, such as Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee, are The following social events are planned: in the vicinity of Haifa. The conference A tour in the unique and spectacu- will be held at the University of Haifa, lar Bahai Gardens whose beautiful campus is at the top of Workshops reception at IBM Haifa Mt. Carmel. Online registration can be Research Lab done via: An evening on Haifa beach http://bpm2014.haifa.ac.il/practical- A Banquette and a tour in Rosh details/registration. Hanikra - the spectacular limestone grottoes (or sea caves) situated on the Mediterranean water front. I SSUE 2 / 2 0 1 4 P AGE 3 BPM 2014 Program Highlights BPM 2014 will feature 3 keynotes by re- 3rd Workshop on Security in International Workshop on Deci- nowned experts: Rob High (IBM), Yuval Business Processes (SBP'14) sion Mining & Modeling for Busi- Shahar (Ben Gurion University), and Keith 4th International Workshop on ness Processes (DeMiMoP’14) Swenson (Fujitsu). There will be two tuto- Process Model Collections: Man- rials one on “Describing Services through agement and Reuse But there is more: USDL” and one on “Flexible Business Pro- International Workshop on Busi- A Doctoral Consortium, devoted to cess Modelling through the Dynamic ness Processes in Collective fresh PhD research in the BPM area Condition Response Graphs paradigm”. Adaptive Systems (BPCAS'14) An exciting demo session hosted See http://bpm2014.haifa.ac.il for details. 3rd Workshop Data- & Artifact- by IBM Haifa Research lab centric BPM (DAB'14) A panel on the past and future of 10th International Workshop on BPM research Business Process Intelligence An event in honor of Peter Dadam (BPI'14) and his contribution to BPM 2nd International Workshop on The 11th International Workshop Business Process Management on Web Services and Formal Meth- in the Cloud (BPMC'14) ods 3rd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Pro- Moreover, the main conference track The following 10 workshops will take cess Visualization (TaProViz'14) will feature presentations of 21 full re- place at BPM 2014: 7th Workshop on Business Pro- search and industry papers, and 10 7th International Workshop on Pro- cess Management and Social short papers. cess-oriented Information Systems in Software (BPS'14) Healthcare (ProHealth’14) Hope to see you in Haifa! P AGE 4 B P M N EWSLETTER Accepted papers tics, Massimiliano de Leoni, Wil sion of BPMN, Martin Schultz and van der Aalst and Marcus Dees Michael Radloff Full research and industry papers Hierarchical Declarative Model- Short papers Chopping Down Trees vs. Sharpen- ling with Refinement and Sub- processes, Søren Debois, Thom- ing the Axe – Balancing the Devel- as Hildebrandt and Tijs Slaats DRain: A Novel Framework for opment of BPM Capabilities with QoR-driven Dynamic Data- Process Improvement, Martin Dealing with Changes of Time- Intensive Analytics Processes, Aitor Lehnert, Alexander Linhart and Aware Processes, Andreas Lanz Murguzur, Johannes M. Schleicher, Maximilian Roeglinger and Manfred Reichert Hong-Linh Truong, Salvador Trujil- Crowd-Based Mining of Reusable Discovering Target-Branched lo and Schahram Dustdar Process Model Patterns Carlos Ro- Declare Constraints, Claudio Di Use Your Best Device! - Enabling driguez, Florian Daniel and Fabio Ciccio, Fabrizio Maggi and Jan Device Changes at Runtime, Den- Casati Mendling nis Bokermann, Christian Gerth Behavioral Comparison of Process Temporal Anomaly Detection in and Gregor Engels Models Based on Canonically Re- Business Processes, Andreas The Automated Discovery of Hy- duced Event Structures, Abel Ar- Rogge-Solti and Gjergji Kasneci brid Processes, Fabrizio Maria Mag- mas-Cervantes, Paolo Baldan, Mar- Listen to me: Improving Process gi, Tijs Slaats and Hajo A. Reijers lon Dumas and Luciano García- Model Matching through User Bañuelos Feedback, Christopher Klink- Declarative Process Model Mining: A Recommender System for Pro- müller, Ingo Weber, Henrik Leo- an Approach to Reduce Complexi- ty by Preprocessing Event Logs, cess Discovery, Joel Ribeiro, Josep pold, Jan Mendling and Andre Pedro Richetti, Fernanda Baião Carmona, Mustafa Misir and Ludwig and Flávia Santoro Michele Sebag Implicit BPM: a Business Process Monitoring Framework for Process Monitoring Business Metacon- Platform for Transparent Work- Discovery Based on Dynamic Con- straints Based on LTL & LDL for f l o w W e a v i n g , R u b e n text Hierarchy Associations, Mari Finite Traces, Giuseppe De Giaco- Mondejar, Pedro Garcia Lopez, Abe and Michiharu Kudo mo, Riccardo De Masellis, Marco Carles Pairot and Enric Brull Grasso, Fabrizio Maria Maggi and Analysis of Operational Data for SECPI: Searching for Explanations Marco Montali Expertise Aware Staffing, Re- for Clustered Process Instances, Beyond Tasks and Gateways: Dis- nuka Sindhgatta, Gaargi B. Das- Jochen De Weerdt and Seppe Vanden Broucke covering BPMN Models with Sub- gupta and Aditya Ghose processes, Boundary Events and A genetic algorithm for process Strategies for Specifying Flexible Multi-Instance Markers, Raffaele discovery guided by complete- Human Behavior in Interaction- Conforti, Marlon Dumas, Luciano ness, precision and simplicity, Intensive Process Environments, García-Bañuelos and Marcello La Borja Vázquez-Barreiros, Ma- Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dust- Rosa nuel Mucientes and Manuel dar and Leon Osterweil Where did I go wrong? - Explaining Lama Assessing the Need for Visibility of errors in business process models, From a family of state based Business Processes, Enrico Graup- Niels Lohmann and Dirk Fahland PAIS to a configurable and pa- ner, Martin Berner, Alexander Mining Resource-Scheduling Proto- rameterized business process Maedche and Harshavardhan Jegadeesan cols, Arik Senderovich, Matthias architecture, Andreas Rulle and Weidlich, Avigdor Gal and Avishai Juliane Siegeris Predictive Task Monitoring for Busi- Mandelbaum Constructs Competition Miner: ness Processes, Cristina Cabanillas, User-Friendly Property Specification Process Control-flow Discovery Claudio Di Ciccio, Jan Mendling and Anne Baumgrass and Process Verification – a Case of BP-domain Constructs, David Study with Vehicle-Commissioning Redlich, Thomas Molka, Gordon Separating Execution and Data Processes, Richard Mrasek, Jutta Blair, Awais Rashid and Wasif Management: A Key to Business- Mülle, Michael Becker, Klemens Gilani Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS), Yutian Böhm and Christian Allmann Modeling Concepts for Internal Sun, Jianwen Su and Jian Yang