Eligibility

Eligible candidates are those who officially obtained a PhD degree in recent years, with a dissertation focused on process mining. We welcome theses that contributed to advance the state of the art in the foundations, engineering, and on-field application of process mining techniques. In this context, the term “process mining” has to be understood in a broad sense: using event data produced during the execution of business, software, or system processes, in order to extract fact-based knowledge and insights on such processes.

We welcome theses that contributed to advancing the state of the art in the foundations, engineering, and on-field application of process mining techniques. In this context, the term “process mining” has to be understood in a broad sense: using event data produced during the execution of business, software, or system processes in order to extract fact-based knowledge and insights on such processes and manage future processes in innovative ways.

For a thesis to be eligible, we also require that it is written entirely in English and that thesis-related results have been published in at least one flagship conference/journal for process mining, for example, ICPM, BPM, CAiSE, EDOC, Petri Nets, ICDM, Information Systems, IEEE TKDE, DKE, ACM TOSEM, IEEE TSC, IEEE TSE, ToPNoC, Decision Support Systems, BISE, and Process Science. We remark that applications to other dissertation award initiatives are permitted.

Prize

The winner will receive the award at the conference.

The award comes with the option of publishing the thesis with Springer, in the LNBIP series.

Nomination and Submission

Candidates are nominated by their primary supervisor via a nomination letter. Each supervisor is only allowed to nominate one candidate. The candidate is responsible for submitting the application via EasyChair (selecting the Best Process Mining PhD Dissertation Award track).

The application consists of the following parts, which all have to be concatenated in a single PDF file (respecting the order):

1. An extended abstract of the thesis, positioning the work in the state of the art and highlighting its main results, novelty, and (potential) impact  [3-5 pages]
2. A nomination letter by the supervisor [1-2 pages]
3. The PhD evaluation report,  including the reviews of the dissertation
4. Full CV of the candidate, including the list of publications
5. The dissertation itself

Questions and enquiries can be directed to the chair(s) of the jury.

Selection Process

The selection process consists of two steps:

1. The jury evaluates the applications and identifies a shortlist of three candidates.
2. The three candidates are invited to give a presentation to the jury in an online session. The jury then selects the winner. 

The selection is based on the following criteria:

• originality and depth of contribution;
• methodological soundness;
• form and quality of presentation,
• significance and potential impact for the research field.