******************************************************************************** Call for Papers DEC2H 2022 10th International Workshop on DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid approaches to processes 12 September 2021 Co-located with the 20th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) https://dec2h-2022.di.uniroma1.it/ ******************************************************************************** In this workshop, we are interested in the application and challenges of decision- and rule-based modelling in all phases of the BPM lifecycle: identification, discovery, analysis, redesign, implementation and monitoring. Important Dates -------------------------- - Abstract submission deadline (optional): 22 May 2022 - Papers submission deadline: 16 June 2022 (extended!) - Notification: 6 July 2022 - Camera-ready deadline: 16 July 2022 - Workshop: 12 September 2022 Scope -------------------------- Rules and decisions define the behavioural constraints and factors determining the achievement of process goals. Business processes frequently involve rule-bound decisions – particularly knowledge-intensive processes, which operate in highly variable contexts and are thus flexible by nature. When describing such processes, variability and flexibility call for explicit statements of the underlying rules and decisions. While traditional notations such as BPMN excel at describing “happy paths”, they may fall short when modelling flexible and varying rules and decisions, wherein procedural models tend to clutter and become imprecise or impractical. Declarative modelling paradigms aim to directly capture the business rules or constraints underlying the process and thus tackle this challenge. A promising direction is the hybridisation of procedural and declarative approaches. This workshop invites work within these topics, adopting existing formalisms (e.g., DMN, Declare, DCR, CMMN, GSM, eCRG, or DPIL) or establishing new ones. Contributions may include completed work (research, case studies and tools) and work-in-progress and position papers. The purpose of the workshop is: - to examine the relationship between rules, decisions and processes, including models; not only to model the process but also to model the rules and decisions; - to enhance rule and decision mining based on process data (e.g. event logs); - to examine decision goals, structures, and their connection with business processes, in order to find a good integration between rule- and decision-based modelling and flow-based modelling; - to examine standards (DMN, CMMN, BPMN) and their integration; - to study how different process models can be designed to fit a decision process according to various optimisation criteria, such as throughput time, use of resources, etc.; - to study the integration between different modelling paradigms; - to show best practices in separating process, rule and decision concerns. Topics of interest -------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Declarative and hybrid (process modelling) approaches - Declarative notations (DCR, Declare, GSM, eCRG, DPIL, ...) - Decision & goal notations (DMN, PDM, ...) - Case management notations (CMMN, fCM, ...) - Hybrid notations - Declarative and hybrid modelling methodologies - Process metrics - Process maintenance and flexibility - Human-centred and flexible processes - Decision rules and processes - Decision models and structures - Formal analysis (e.g., expressiveness proofs) of declarative and hybrid notations - Formal verification (e.g. model-checking and static analysis) of declarative and hybrid models - Run-time adaptation of declarative and hybrid process models Decision mining and declarative/hybrid process mining - Decision mining - Declarative process mining - Hybrid process mining - Data mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis - Rule mining for decision and declarative/hybrid process analysis Applications of decision- and rule-modelling in BPM - Goal-driven processes - Knowledge-intensive processes - Business process compliance - Knowledge workflow management - Usability and understandability studies - Case studies - Tools Format of the Workshop -------------------------- The workshop will begin with a keynote, followed by presentations of accepted papers. Full papers have 20 minutes for their presentations and 10 minutes for discussion and Q&A. Short papers have 15 + 5 minutes. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least three program committee members guaranteeing that only papers presenting high-quality work and innovative research in areas relevant to the workshop theme will be accepted. Papers that are not accepted, yet reviewed positively, may still be invited for presentation at the workshop. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop post-proceedings. These will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series, in a single volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops. During a time window after the conference, the workshop participants will be granted the free download of the papers. At least one author of each accepted manuscript is required to register for the workshop and present the paper. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main BPM 2022 conference to be found on its website (https://bpm2022.uni-muenster.de/). Submission -------------------------- We are interested in the following paper categories, either in long (not exceeding 12 pages) or short (not exceeding 6 pages) format. * Research and work-in-progress papers * describe original research work in the broad area of declarative, decision and hybrid approaches to processes. Such papers can report on complete technical work or early results that reveal promising but require more work to get to full maturity. Short * position or vision papers * (not exceeding 6 pages) discuss a novel problem or idea related to the topics of the workshop and can be used as an opportunity to foster discussion at the event and reach out to interested collaborators. Accepted papers will use a special presentation format at the workshop, with a shorter presentation but more room for discussion. Papers in this category will be evaluated with a focus on their novelty and potential to foster an engaged discussion at the workshop. * Case-study papers * report on case-studies and industrial applications of declarative, decision and hybrid approaches to processes. Papers in this category are expected to clearly describe the case being studied, the methodologies used, and their implications for relevant research problems. * Tool papers * describe novel tools supporting declarative, decision and hybrid approaches to processes. Papers in this category will be evaluated based on the novelty and maturity of the tools presented and authors are expected to include artefacts such as links to a demo version of the tool and video tutorials. The final selection of papers will consider all categories equally, with each paper reviewed according to the expectations for their category. Only papers in English will be considered. Submitted papers must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Authors are requested to prepare submissions according to the LNBIP format specified by Springer. The title page must contain a short abstract and a list of keywords, preferably using the topics given above. Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair: enter the main conference installation (BPM 2022) at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2022 and select "10th International Workshop on DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid approaches to processes" as the submission track. Special Issue -------------------------- Depending on their quality, the authors of selected papers at DEC2H will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their work for a journal special issue. Program Committee -------------------------- Amine Abbad Andaloussi, University of St Gallen, Switzerland Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alessio Cecconi, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Carl Corea, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany João Costa Seco, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Massimiliano de Leoni, University of Padua, Italy Riccardo De Masellis, Uppsala University, Sweden Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST, Italy Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden Krzysztof Kluza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Hugo A. López, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Artem Polyvyanyy, The University of Melbourne, Australia Flavia Santoro, UERJ, Brazil Stefan Schönig, University of Regensburg, Germany Han van der Aa, University of Mannheim, Germany Mathias Weske, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany Organisers -------------------------- María Teresa Gómez-López, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Claudio Di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium Contacts -------------------------- Web: http://dec2h-2022.di.uniroma1.it/ Email: DEC2H@di.uniroma1.it