BPMDA2019: Best Process Mining Dissertation Award |
Website | http://icpmconference.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmda2019 |
Submission deadline | January 14, 2019 |
Call for Best Process Mining Dissertation Award
Applications are sought from recent recipients of a doctoral degree for the 2018 edition of the best dissertation award in the field of process mining. The award will be delivered at the 1st International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM’2019) on 24-26 June 2019.
Eligibility
Eligible candidates are those who officially obtained a PhD degree in 2018 based on a doctoral dissertation pertaining to the field of process mining. The term process mining in this setting is interpreted broadly: The use of data produced during the execution of business, software, or system processes, in order to extract knowledge or insights to manage these processes.
Prize
The winner will receive the award at the ICPM’2019 Conference in Aachen, Germany. The award is connected with a monetary prize (amount to be announced later) and a free registration to the ICPM conference. The winner is also offered the option to publish the dissertation as a volume in Springer’s LNBIP series.
Nomination and Submission
Candidates are nominated by their primary supervisor via a nomination letter. Each professor (supervisor or co-supervisor) is only allowed to nominate one candidate. The candidate is responsible for submitting the nomination material via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmda2019
The submission must include the following documents concatenated in a single PDF file:
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An extended abstract of the thesis highlighting the main contributions of the thesis (3-5 pages)
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Nomination letter by supervisor (1-2 pages)
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PhD evaluation report(s), including the reviews of the dissertation
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CV of the candidate, including publication list
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Copy of the dissertation
Questions and enquiries can be directed to the chairperson of the jury: Marlon Dumas, http://www.cs.ut.ee/~dumas
Selection Process
The winner of the award will be determined in two steps. First, the jury will evaluate the submission material and identify a short list of three candidates. Second, these three candidates will be invited to give a presentation of their work in an online session with the jury. The jury will then select the winner. The selection will be based on the following criteria:
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Originality and depth of contribution,
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Methodological soundness,
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Form and quality of presentation, and
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Significance for the research field.
Important Dates
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21 January 2019: Deadline for submission of thesis
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25 February 2019: Notification of short-listing
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11-15 March 2019: Online session with short-listed candidates
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The Notification of the winner will be at the BPM Conference at ICPM’2019
Jury
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Robin Bergenthum, University of Hagen, Germany
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Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK, Italy
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Marlon Dumas (Chair), University of Tartu, Estonia
- Walid Gaaloul, Télécom Sudparis, France
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Marcos Sepúlveda, PUC, Chile
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Alessandro Sperdutti, University of Padova, Italy
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Jan Martijn van der Werf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands