AI-PA 2022
The 3rd International Workshop on
AI-enabled Process Automation
November 28^th and 29^th, 2022

Workshop Sponsors

       

Welcome

Business processes are central to the operation of public and private enterprises. Today, the advancement in Service Oriented Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science has the potential to transform business processes in fundamental ways; by assisting knowledge workers in communicating analysis findings, supporting pieces of evidence and to make decisions.

The 3rd International Workshop on AI-enabled Process Automation (AI-PA) will be held as one of the workshops of the 20^th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2022). The AI-PA workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and professionals interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Business Processes and Services; and in understanding, envisioning and discussing the opportunities and challenges of intelligent Process Automation, Process Data Analytics and providing Cognitive Assistants for knowledge workers. Recognizing the broad scope of the potential areas of interest, the workshop is organized into FOUR themes, as follows:

Call For Papers

Theme 1: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Services and Processes

• Intelligent Knowledge Lakes
• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
• Intelligent Knowledge Representation
• Intelligent user experience
• Intelligent Crowdsourcing
• Cognitive Processes

Theme 2: BigData, Services and Processes

• Process Data Lakes and Knowledge Lakes
• Process Data Science
• Data-Driven Processes
• Knowledge-Intensive Processes
• Process Data Engineering
• Process Data Organizations
• Process Data Curation
• Process Data Mining
• Process Data Analytics
• Process Data Visualization
• Process Data Summarization
• Storytelling with Process Data

Theme 3: Smart Entities, Services and Processes

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Sensor Technology and Data Analytics
• Machine-to-Machine and Human-to-Machine Communication
• Advanced Automation and Robotics (including collaborative robots)

Theme 4: AI in Industry

• AI for Industry 4.0
• Services in Organizations and Governments
• Knowledge workers: Cognitive Assistance and Analytics
• Customer Journey and KYC (Know Your Customer)
• Intelligent Recommender systems
• AI-enabled applications, such as:
  • AI-enabled Policing
  • AI-enabled Banking
  • AI-enabled Education
  • AI-enabled Health

Paper Submission Instructions

• Position papers:  8-page limit, describing a position statement on issues related to the topics of the workshop. Position papers would lead to interesting discussions by raising key questions, controversial points of view, challenges, and ideas to address the identified issues.
• Research papers:  12-page limit, describing original and novel research work, including research results and evaluations. The papers may present the ongoing research, novel ideas with preliminary results, advances of the state of the art, analysis of the current results in the state of the art or state of the practice, or experience in implementing the theories.
• Industry Papers:  12-page limit, This track will be an opportunity for people associated with industry and academia to present their novel ideas while attracting funding and/or further expanding collaborations. An important criterion for papers to be submitted to the Industry Track is a clear industrial association, either in the form of an extensive evaluation of research results in industrial use cases or active participation of industry representatives as co-authors.
• Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed the above-mentioned limit pages (including abstract, figures and references). Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided deadlines. The final submission should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Camera-ready instructions. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
• All papers must be submitted electronically, as PDF file, to the Workshop Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aipa2022

Important Dates

• Paper Abstract Deadline: September 19, 2022 October 10, 2022 (Firm and Final!)
• Paper Submission Deadline: September 25, 2022 October 10, 2022 (Firm and Final!)
• Paper Notification Deadline: October 25, 2022
• Camera-ready (and Early Registration) October 30, 2022

Award and Support Program

• Best Paper Award: $500AUD
  
• Workshop Registration Fee Waiver: We will waive the Workshop Registration Fee for all accepted papers, thanks to our sponsors.

Workshop Organizers

Workshop Program

Day 1: 28 November 2022

Venue: IBM Australia (Level 17, 259 George St, Sydney NSW 2000)
Program: CLICK HERE

Day 2: 29 November 2022

Venue: Online

ZOOM LINK: Register in advance for this meeting:
https://macquarie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuCqqjkrHtFCuNDNYz9yPQMcUuJwr13D

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Program Committee

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Fabio Casati, Servicenow, USA
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
Mark Burgin, University of California, Los Angeles
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Mehdi Elahi, University of Bergen, Norway
Daniela Grigori, University Paris-Dauphine, France
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Qiang Qu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China
Morteza Saberi, University of Technology, Australia
Adrian Mos, Naver LABS, France
Bahareh Nakisa, Deakin University, Australia
Samira Ghodratnama, Grainer, USA
Helia Farhood, Macquarie university, Australia
Mohammad Allahbakhsh, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Nour Moustafa, University of New South Wales at Canberra, Australia
Marcos Baez, University of Trento, Italy
Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Deakin University, Ausralia