SIMPDA provides 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. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English. A special session will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students.

TOPIC OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
- Business Process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Data-aware and data-centric approaches
- Variability and configuration of process models
- Process Mining with Big Data
- Process simulation and static analyses
- Process data query languages
- Process data mining
- Privacy-aware process data mining
- Process metadata and semantic reasoning
- Process patterns and standards
- Foundations of business process models
- Resource management in business process execution
- Process tracing and monitoring
- Process change management and evolution
- Business process lifecycle
- Case studies and experience reports
- Social process discovery
- Crowdsourced process definition and discovery


PAPER SUBMISSION
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SITIS 2013 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to the topics of the corresponding track. Papers must be up to 8 pages long and follow IEEE double columns publication format.

Paper submission will only be online via: SITIS 2013 submission site. The online system will be used to handle and process all papers and to prepare for the final proceedings.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2013

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals.


CHAIRS
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- Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Contact Person
- Paolo Ceravolo paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it


WORKSHOP FORMAT
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In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop:
The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students.
Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions.
The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session.
The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc… that they got out of the workshop.

Several events and activities arose off these simposia, among the most notables we have two Dagstuhl seminars:
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, January 24-29, 2010.
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Unleashing Operational Process Mining, November 24-29, 2010.
The venue was for both editions Campione d’Italia, the Italian enclave surrounded by Swiss territory, on the shores of Lake Lugano.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Peter Spyns, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- Daniele Bonetta, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Swizerland
- Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Avigdor Gal, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
- Angelo Corallo, Università del Salento, Italy
- Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Rafael Accorsi, University of Freibur, Germany
- Farookh Hussain, University of Technology, Sydney Australia
- Thomas Risse, University of Berlin, Germany
- Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
- Davide Storelli, Università del Salento, Italy
- Marcello Leida, EBTIC (Etisalat BT Innovation Centre), UAE
- Gabriele Ruffatti, Engineering Group, Italy
- Jerzy Korczak, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
- Abder Koukam, University of Technology UTBM, France
- Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, Australia
- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
- Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan (China)
- Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Mohamed Achemlal, Orange Labs, France
- Jose M Alcaraz Calero, Hewlett-Packard, UK
- Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux, France
- Eduardo FernEdez-Medina, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Meiko Jensen, ULD SH, Germany
- Haris Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
- Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India
- Helen Balinsky, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK
- Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania
- Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain
- Frèdèric Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France
- Nora Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France
- Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, US
- Eduardo Fernandez, Atlantic University, US
- Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Karima Boudaoud, Ecole Polytechnique de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
- George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK
- Artur Hecker, Telecom ParisTech, France
- Etienne Triviere, Université de Neuchàtel, Swizerland
- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
- Chi Hung, Tsinghua University, China
- Anas Abouelkalam, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France
- Luis Soares Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Adrian Pasarariu, Florida Atlantic University, US
- Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
- Ioana Georgiana, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
- Sylvain Halle, Université du Québec, Canada
- Florian Rosenberg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada
- Joào Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
- Jan Mendling, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria
- Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Alistair Barros, SAP Research and Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Hamid Motahari, HP Labs, USA
- Gerd, Groener, University of Koblenz, Germany
- Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Paul Taylor, BT Technology Services & Operations, UK
- Basim Majeed, EBTIC (Etisalat BT Innovation Center), UAE
- Selma Limam Mansar, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
- Minseok Song, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Korea
- Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia