The Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) is looking for a

PhD working on Process Mining Techniques in the Privacy Compliance and Enforcement (PriCE) project

Electronic data that are increasingly generated and used in our society (e.g., electronic health records, financial data, demographic data used in eGoverment) need to be protected. The EU data protection legislation imposes very stringent requirements on the collection, processing and disclosure of personal data, and empowers users to control the access/usage of their data. In the project AIS will collaborate with the Security (SEC) group at TU/e. In the PriCE project we aim to develop innovative privacy compliance and enforcement techniques based on cross-fertilizations between security and process mining.

The AIS group is one of the leading groups in BPM working on exciting new techniques such as process mining (www.processmining.org), process configuration, and BPM technology. The work resulted in the development of the ProM framework that is widely used in industry and serves as a platform for new process mining techniques used by research groups all over the globe. ProM and related research will be used as a starting point.

The Privacy Compliance and Enforcement (PriCE) project will employ two PhD candidates (one on security and one on process mining) that will collaborate while being supported by several staff members from both groups. The PriCE project is part of NWO’s Cyber Security program which focuses on the development of products, services and knowledge for the security of the digital society. It is part of the Dutch Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS). It is aimed at combatting potential cyber disturbances for citizens, industry and government in the Netherlands.

The PhD focusing on process mining techniques for security will be working in the AIS group under the supervision of prof.dr. Wil van der Aalst. The Architecture of Information Systems group is doing research in the area of process modeling and analysis. The group is rated as one of the leading computer science groups in the Netherlands and TU/e often seen as the epicenter of BPM and process mining research. The group uses formal methods such as Petri nets to design, analyze, and implement dynamic systems. The group is well-versed in workflow management, process mining, and process verification. See www.workflowpatterns.com, www.workflowcourse.com, www.processmining.org, www.yawl-system.com, www.win.tue.nl/ais/, www.wvdaalst.com, and www.tue.nl for more information.

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The Information Systems group of the Computer Science Department, Eindhoven University of Technology has an opportunity for inviting a visiting PhD/Postdoc researcher interested in process mining, data mining and curriculum modeling.

You can find some information about the project and expected outcome from the following document: http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/projects/edm/CurriM_extract.pdf. The visit may take place within the period from 1 April 2012 till 30 September 2012. We can reimburse your travel and accommodation expenses and might be able to offer some modest daily allowance as well. Your salary would still come from your home university.

If you are interested in vising our group, work on the project and collaborate with our process mining and data mining experts please send an e-mail to Mykola Pechenizkiy with the subject “CurriM visiting research” and indicate for what period you would like to come and what you would be interested to do.

The AIS group is one of the leading groups in the exciting new field of process mining. Process mining techniques focus on process discovery (extracting process models from event logs), conformance checking (comparing normative models with the reality recorded in event logs), and extension (extending models based on event logs). The work resulted in the development of the ProM framework that is widely used in industry and serves as a platform for new process mining techniques used by research groups all over the globe. Moreover, many of the techniques developed in the context of ProM have been embedded in commercial tools. See also the Process Mining website and the new Process Mining book.

Currently, there is a vacancy for a PhD working on process mining project in collaboration with Cordys, a Dutch software company focusing on improving business operations. The Cordys BPM oftware enables organizations to change and improve processes by combining BPM and Cloud technology. As more and more customers of Cordys request process mining functionality, it becomes interesting to add process discovery, conformance checking, and extension capabilities to the Cordys platform. Therefore, a collaborative research project has been defined to advance the state-of-the-art in process mining and to make process mining better applicable and repeatable.

The project will be conducted in the AIS group under the supervision of prof.dr. Wil van der Aalst. The AIS group is part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The candidate will be working within AIS and the Cordys in a fifty-fifty distribution (flexible).

The Architecture of Information Systems group is doing research in the area of process modeling and analysis. The group is rated as one of the leading computer science groups in the Netherlands and TU/e often seen as the epicenter of BPM research. The group uses formal methods such as Petri nets to design, analyze, and implement dynamic systems. The group is well-versed in workflow management, process mining, and process verification. See www.workflowpatterns.com, www.workflowcourse.com, www.processmining.org, www.yawl-system.com, www.win.tue.nl/ais/, www.wvdaalst.com, and www.tue.nl for more information.

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