Process Mining 4 Sustainability Workshop

The PM4S workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to explore the intersection of process mining and sustainability as well as raise awareness for the potential of process mining for supporting sustainable development. We want to offer a platform to present work contributing to the topic and foster discussion and collaboration on innovative approaches to enhance the environmental and social performance of business processes.

Important Dates

~~August 8, 2024~~ August 15, 2024: Abstract Submission
~~August 15, 2024~~ August 22, 2024: Paper Submission
~~September 9, 2024~~ September 13, 2024: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 23, 2024: Pre-Workshop Camera-Ready Paper Submission
October 14, 2024: Workshop
October 29, 2024: Post-Workshop Camera-Ready Paper Submission

Please kindly refer to the official ICPM website for detailed submission instructions. Paper Submission

Program

Each presentation will have 20 minutes time for the talk + 5 minutes for questions.

9:00 AM - 9:15 PM	Welcome and Introduction
9:15 AM - 9:40 PM	Dominik Schäfer, Finn Klessascheck, Timotheus Kampik and Luise Pufahl Can We Leverage Process Data from ERP Systems for Sustainability Analyses?	Open Paper
9:40 AM - 10:05 PM	Muskan Muskan, Felix Mannhardt and Boudewijn van Dongen Extending Genetic Process Discovery to Reveal Unfairness in Processes	Open Paper
10:05 AM - 10:30 PM	Andreas Fritsch Process Sustainability Patterns for Evaluating and Developing Sustainable Process Technologies	Open Paper
10:30 AM - 11:00 PM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:25 PM	Ioana Costache, Oktay Turetken, Banu Aysolmaz and Karolin Winter Process Mining Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emission Management in Production Processes	Open Paper
11:25 AM - 11:50 PM	Cielo González Moyano, Finn Klessascheck, Saimir Bala, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Jan Mendling Towards Nudging in BPM: A Human-Centric Approach for Sustainable Business Processes	Open Paper
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM	Discussion, Roadmap, and Next Steps

Call for Papers

With increasing environmental and societal challenges, the urgency for sustainable development becomes paramount. Industries, responsible for a significant portion of global emissions and waste, play a crucial role in this transition. The “Process Mining for Sustainability” workshop aims to bridge the gap between technological advancement and sustainable practices, focusing on the transformative potential of process mining in fostering sustainable business processes.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand a reevaluation of industrial processes and organizational practices. Business processes are pivotal in this context. There is a pressing need for concrete, scalable solutions to embed sustainability into the fabric of BPM. To fully harness the power of process mining for sustainability, it is imperative to advance existing techniques and methodologies. PM4S encourages submissions that propose process mining frameworks integrating sustainability-related knowledge, enhance process mining techniques to support production and logistics processes, or describe the application of process mining to increase sustainability. For instance, object-centric process mining allows for a more nuanced understanding of complex inter-organizational systems, providing a ground for methodologies that can significantly advance sustainability.

The objective of this workshop is to showcase the latest research and practical applications of process mining in the pursuit of sustainability, foster dialogue between academia and industry, and to develop a joint action plan to guide future efforts in this critical domain.

Topics, include anything supporting environmental or social sustainability using Process Mining or works contributing to process mining being capable of doing so. They include but are not limited to:

Environmental and social aspects of process mining techniques
Sustainability assessment of processes and systems
Sustainability indicators in event logs
Regulatory compliance
Object-centric process mining for holistic process analysis
Production and logistics process analysis (IoT, value stream analysis)
Resilience
Analysis and simulation of processes with constrained resources
Sustainability-oriented design and evaluation of PM algorithms
Extraction of event logs containing sustainability-related data
Life-cycle assessment, e.g., inter-organizational processes, supply chains
Circular economy, e.g., material flows, recycling processes, remanufacturing
Environmental use cases, e.g., renewable energy, waste management, emission
Social sustainability, e.g., human resources, organizational perspective

Submission Types

We aim to receive submissions of different types:

Full papers (up to 12 pages) illustrating novel research or detailed case studies performed in industry.
Short papers (up to 6 pages) illustrating a use case in the context of PM4S.
Visionary papers (up to 4 pages) discussing the future steps of PM4S.

Full research papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Due to editorial requirements, we are expected to have an acceptance rate for papers published in LNBIP of not more than 50%.

Organizers

István Koren

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Dr. István Koren is a postdoc researcher at the Chair of Process and Data Science and Deputy Coordinator of the Infrastructure area within the National Research Cluster “Internet of Production” at RWTH Aachen University. In his research, he studies the co-evolution of engineering, production, and usage in complex software- and data-intensive systems.

Janina Bauer

Celonis, Germany

Janina Bauer, M.Sc, is the Global Head of Sustainability at Celonis responsible for driving the company’s sustainability agenda. Apart from steering sustainable operations and ESG reporting for Celonis itself, she and her team build applications for customers to decarbonise global supply chains and easen sustainability reporting using Process Intelligence.

Nina Graves

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Nina Graves, M.Sc., is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Process and Data Science at RWTH Aachen University. Using her background in industrial engineering, her research focusses on advancing process mining techniques to increase the sustainability of production and logistics processes.

Birgit Penzenstadler

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Birgit Penzenstadler is an Associate Professor at the joint Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, Sweden, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She has been investigating sustainability, resilience, and well-being from a point of view of software engineering during the past ten years, working on a body of knowledge and concepts of how to support sustainability from within RE. Part of these efforts are documented with the Karlskrona Alliance that published a body of work including the Karlskrona Manifesto (see also http://www.sustainabilitydesign.org).