With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process
data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process
data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 - 2.12 International
Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where
researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in
this hot new field.
The symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating new approaches,
shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar, and selected
research and industrial demonstrations. All this in the charming setting of Campione
d’Italia, the Italian enclave surrounded by Swiss territory, on the shores of Lake
Lugano.

SIMPDA 2012 is jointly conducted with IEEE DEST-CEE 2012 (IEEE International Conference
on Digital Ecosystem Technologies and Complex Environment Engineering
http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/DEST2012/).
This acknowledges the key role of business process data modeling, representation and
privacy-aware analysis for Digital Ecosystems.

)) Important Dates
Submission of Full Papers: 15 April 2012
Submission of PhD Research Plans: 15 April 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2012
Submission of Camera Ready Papers: 21 May 2012

)) Call for Papers
SIMPDA 2012 offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results
to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modeling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English.
Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceedings volume with an ISBN. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium
proceedings volume, which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for late 2012.

)) Keynote Speakers
Marlon Dumas - University of Tartu
Ronal Maier - University of Innsbruck
Jan Mendling - Vienna University of Economics
Manfred Hauswirth - National University of Ireland

)) Call for PhD Research Plans
The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world.
The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research.
Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications.
Research plans should be at most of 4 page long and should be organized following the following structure:

- Abstract: summarizes, in 5 line, the research aims and significance.
- Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions
- Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books).
- Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution.
- Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on:
assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach.
- Research stage: describes what the student has done so far.

A Doctoral Award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Award Committee to the best research
plan submitted.

)) Call for Demonstrations and Posters
Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work
directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a
title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages.
Posters allow the presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner.
Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, contact information for the authors,
and should not exceed 2 pages. Accepted demonstrations and posters will be presented at the symposium. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings.