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Fourth International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI'08) to be 
held in conjunction with BPM'08
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Business Process Intelligence (BPI) is an area that is quickly gaining interest 
and im-portance in industry and research. BPI refers to the application of 
various measure-ment and analysis techniques in the area of business process 
management. In prac-tice, BPI is embodied in tools for managing process 
execution quality by offering sev-eral features such as analysis, prediction, 
monitoring, control, and optimization.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a better understanding and a more 
appropriate support of a company's processes at design time and the way they 
are handled at runtime. We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers 
from different com-munities such as business process management, information 
systems research, busi-ness administration, software engineering, artificial 
intelligence, and data mining who share an interest in the analysis of business 
processes and process-aware information systems. The workshop aims at 
discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical 
experiences.

The list of topics that are relevant to the BPI workshop includes the 
following, but is not limited to:

Analysis Techniques at design time and/or runtime:
-       Mining of business processes
-       Statistical analysis in the business process management lifecycle
-       Reasoning related to business process
-       Business process visualization
-       Machine-learning and business processes
-       Measurement of business process models and business process modelling
-       Retrieval related to business process management
-       Similarity related to processes and cases
-       Integration of processes and process models
-       Mathematical optimization

Applications of such analysis techniques and case studies in:
-       Performance Measurement of business processes
-       Business Process Reengineering
-       Business Process Quality
-       Emergent workflows
-       Process discovery
-       Conformance and risk management for business processes
-       Operations Management and Six Sigma
-       Data warehousing
-       Static and dynamic optimization
-       Self-management
-       Monitoring of business processes
-       Resource Allocation in business processes
-       Prediction
-       Dynamic composition of business processes

Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality 
and techni-cal quality. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close 
as possible to final camera-ready versions following the LNCS/LNBIP format 
specified by Springer-Verlag. Papers should clearly establish the research 
contribution and the relation to previous research. The submission should 
clearly emphasize the discussion aspects relevant to the workshop. Members of 
an international and solid program committee will review all submissions. Each 
paper will be reviewed by 3 PC members guaranteeing that only papers presenting 
high quality and innovative research and practice issues in areas relevant to 
the workshop theme will be accepted.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline:
  23 May 2008
Notification of acceptance:
  27 June 2008
Camera ready:
  11 July 2008
Papers sent to Workshop Chairs for inclusion on CD distributed at the 
conference:
  18 July 2008
Workshop day:
  4 September 2008
Post-proceeding version of the paper:
  23 September 2008
Paper sent to the Workshop Chairs for preparing the Springer volume:
  30 September 2008
Delivery to authors and workshop organizers:
  Christmas 2008

Program Committee   (tentative)
-       Wil van der Aalst, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
-       Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
-       Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
-       Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research, Germany
-       Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
-       Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
-       Boudewijn van Dongen, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
-       Walid Galoul, DERI Galway, Ireland
-       Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
-       Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
-       Antonella Guzzi, University of Calabria, Italy
-       Joachim Herbst, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Germany
-       Jun-Jang Jeng, IBM Research, USA
-       Jürgen Moormann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany
-       Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
-       Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
-       Shlomit S. Pinter, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
-       Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
-       Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
-       Domenico Sacca, Università della Calabria, Italy
-       Pnina Soffer, Haifa University, Israel
-       Hans Weigand, Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
-       Ton Weijters, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
-       Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute at University of Potsdam, 
Germany

Organizers

Dr. Malu Castellanos
Intelligent Enterprise Technologies Lab
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Rd, CA 94304, USA
Tel: +1 650 857 3074
Fax: +1 650 852 8137
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Url: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Malu_Castellanos

Dr. Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros
Information Systems Group
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Postbus 513 (Paviljoen J6), 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 40 247 4239
Fax: +31 40 243 2612
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Url: http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/amedeiros/

Dr. Jan Mendling (corresponding organizer) BPM Cluster Queensland University of 
Technology
126 Margaret Street, Brisbane Qld 4000, Australia
Tel: +61 7 313 89482
Fax: +61 7 313 89390
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Url: http://www.mendling.com

Dr. Barbara Weber
Institut für Informatik
Universität Innsbruck
Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck
Tel.: +43 507 512 6474
Fax: +43 507 512 9871
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Url: http://qe-informatik.uibk.ac.at
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