18th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020)

Workshops at BPM 2020

The Third Workshop on Security and Privacy-enhanced Business Process Management (SPBP’20)

Despite the growing demand for business processes that comply with security and privacy policies, security and privacy incidents caused by erroneous workflow specifications are regrettably common. This is, in part, because business process management, security and privacy are seldom addressed together, thereby hindering the development of trustworthy, privacy and security-compliant business processes. The goal of SPBP’20 is to obtain a deeper understanding of a rapidly maturing, yet still largely under-investigated field of business process execution using blockchain technologies and other distributed ledgers, privacy-enhanced business processes, business process privacy, integrity and security management and data analysis facilities emerging from the mentioned areas.

The central theme of the workshop is the interplay between business process management, security and privacy management using emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, smart contracts, and distributed ledgers, distributed process mining, privacy-aware and privacy enhancing technologies, and artificial intelligence. The workshop also welcomes submissions on security and security risk management, compliance checking, privacy and security policies, measuring security activities within business processes. Learn more ›

Organizers

PC chairs:

  • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, rma@ut.ee
  • Nicolas Mayer, LIST, nicolas.mayer@list.lu

Publicity chair:

  • Mubashar Iqbal, University of Tartu, mubashar.iqbal@ut.ee

The Thirteenth Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’20)

The goal of the BPMS2 workshop is to explore how social information systems integrate with business process management, and how business process management may profit from this integration. Furthermore, the BPMS2 workshop investigates the human aspects introduced into Business Process Management by involving human users. Examples are the use of crowdsourced knowledge and tasks, the need for new user interfaces, e.g. augmented reality and voice bots. The BPMS2 workshop will discuss three topics. Social Business Process Management, Social Business and Platforms, and Human Aspects of Business Process Management. Learn more ›

Organizers

  • Rainer Schmidt (corresponding) rainer.schmidt@hm.edu
  • Selmin Nurcan nurcan@univ-paris1.fr

4th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet the Internet-of Things (BP-Meet-IoT)

The Business Process Management (BPM) discipline, as it is known today, emerged as the result of significant advances experienced since mid 1990s in business methods, tools, standards, and technology. Since then, this discipline has significantly evolved but mainly focused on the business domain with the objective of helping organizations to achieve their goals. However, the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) has put into play a huge amount of interconnected and embedded computing devices with sensing and actuating capabilities that are revolutionizing our way of living. The incorporation of this technology into the BPM field will allow the development of business process with higher levels of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness, providing as a result a better support to the evolving business requirements. In addition, the proper combination of these two fields can foster the development of innovative solutions not only in the business domain where the BPM emerged, but also in many different application areas in which the IoT can be applied (e.g., smart cities, smart agro, or e-health).

The objective of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand we want to attract novel research at the intersection of these two areas by bringing together practitioners and researchers from both communities that are interested in making IoT-based business processes a reality. BP-Meet-IoT will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and practical experiences. On the other hand, we want to foster also a more practical-point-of-view solutions provided for real scenarios. For this purpose, we propose also to raise two challenges, namely an IoT-aware BP modelling challenge and an IoT process mining challenge. For both challenges, we strongly encourage to use any available tool, technique, or method. Participants to the challenge will have to present a paper describing their solution and to present it during the workshop. The winner of each challenge will receive a prize certificate. We aim as well to have a special issue in a journal, consisting of the winners of the challenges and the best paper of the workshop. Learn more ›

Organizers

  • Agnes Koschmider (ak@informatik.uni-kiel.de)
  • Francesco Leotta (leotta@diag.uniroma1.it)
  • Massimo Mecella (mecella@diag.uniroma1.it)
  • Estefanía Serral (estefania.serralasensio@kuleuven.be)
  • Victoria Torres (vtorres@pros.upv.es)

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM)

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow, with new and deeper techniques, and with applications across numerous areas. In the past few years, we have seen strong interest from both industry and academia in applying AI techniques in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). Indeed, the application of AI is impacting additional areas where process management perspectives and techniques are relevant, including industrial engineering, IoT, and emergency response, to name a few.

The use of AI in BPM has been discussed as the next disruptive technology that will touch almost all the business process activities being performed by humans. In some cases, AI will dramatically simplify human interaction with processes, in other cases, it will extensively support humans in the execution of tasks, and, in yet other cases, it will enable full automation of tasks that have traditionally required manual contributions. Over time, AI may lead to entirely new paradigms for business processes and operations. For example, instead of BPM models centered on process or on case management, we anticipate models that are based fundamentally on goal achievement, as well as we anticipate models that fully enable continuous improvement and adaptation based on experiential learning. The goal of this workshop is to establish a forum for researchers and professionals interested in understanding, envisioning and discussing the challenges and opportunities of moving from current, largely programmatic approaches for BPM, to emerging forms of AI-enabled BPM.

Organizers

  • Chiara Di Francescomarino, dfmchiara@fbk.eu
  • Fabrizio Maria Maggi, f.m.maggi@ut.ee
  • Andrea Marrella, marrella@diag.uniroma1.it
  • Arik Senderovich, sariks@mie.utoronto.ca
  • Emilio Sulis, sulis@di.unito.it

BPM in the era of Digital Innovation and Transformation (BPMinDIT-2020)

The fundamental nature of many organizations is being rapidly transformed with the ongoing diffusion of digital technologies. In this era, organizations in many domains are challenged to question their existing business models and to improve or revolutionize them using new technologies. These developments are also challenging the role of BPM. New BPM capabilities that reflect an explorative-dominant view may help in addressing the emerging opportunities and challenges of digitalization.

In this workshop, we question and investigate the new role of BPM in the digital era. The goal is to advance our understanding of the BPM capabilities that organizations require to explore emerging opportunities of digital innovation and transformation, and cope with related challenges. Learn more ›

Organizers

  • Oktay Turetken, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. o.turetken@tue.nl
  • Amy Van Looy, Ghent University, Belgium. amy.vanlooy@ugent.be

16th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI’20)

The main goal of this workshop is to promote the use and development of new techniques to support the analysis of business processes based on run-time data about those processes. We aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from different communities, e.g. Business Process Management, Information Systems, Database Systems, Business Administration, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Mining, who share an interest in the analysis and optimization of business processes and process-aware information systems. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences, exchanging ideas and setting up future research directions. Learn more ›

Organizers

  • Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, jochen.deweerdt@kuleuven.be
  • Marwan Hassani, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, M.Hassani@tue.nl
  • Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, andbur@dtu.dk

8th International Workshop on DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid approaches to processes (DEC2H 2020)

Processes involve rules and decisions determining the premises and possible outcomes of activities and events. The declarative modelling paradigm aims to directly capture the constraints underlying the process (the “what”), as opposed to the imperative paradigm, explicitly representing the paths along which the process runs (the “how”). The declarative approach has gained momentum in recent years, as testified by the several notations that emerged (e.g., Declare, DCR Graphs, DMN, GSM, eCRG, and DPIL). Lately, there has been a rapidly growing interest in hybrid approaches too, which combine the strengths of the different modelling paradigms. In this workshop, we are interested in the decision- and rule-based modelling and mining of processes, as well as their hybridization with imperative models, in all phases of the BPM lifecycle (identification, discovery, analysis, redesign, implementation and monitoring). Learn more ›

Organizers

  • Søren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, debois@itu.dk
  • Claudio Di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, diciccio@di.uniroma1.it
  • Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, slaats@di.ku.dk
  • Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium, jan.vanthienen@kuleuven.be

To contact all the organisers: dec2h@di.uniroma1.it