2nd International Workshop on Digital Twins for Business Processes DT4BP2023

===Scope and Objective===
In the last years, the Internet of Things has been adopted in several sectors, influencing and enhancing how people and organisations work leading to the establishment of the term IoT-aware business process. Such a concept is now pushed forward by the rise of digital twins that have become more affordable and promise to drive the future of business processes.
Advanced ways of managing and maintaining business processes come within reach as there is a Digital Process Twin of the real process with real-time capabilities. A digital process twin is a virtual replica of the near-time process occurrences in an organization. Thousands of sensors are being placed to monitor physical processes, all collecting data from different dimensions, such as environmental conditions, behavioural characteristics of machines and their users, and work that is being performed. All this data is continuously collected, elaborated, and exchanged in such a way to guide day-to-day organization activities.
Digital process twins, together with the advancement in artificial intelligence, cloud, and edge computing, offer a great amount of business potential by predicting the future instead of analyzing the past of the processes. The representation of reality created by digital process twins allows us to evolve towards ex-ante business practices.
The objective of the DT4BP workshop is to attract researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the continuous enhancement of business processes including IoT aspects, up to the concept of Digital Process Twin, and present open challenges, state of the art, in-progress research, and practical experiences, including case studies.
The workshop is co-located with the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, (BPM2023) 

===List of Topics===
The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:Business Process Management and Digital TwinsDesign and Management of Digital Process TwinsConceptual Modelling of Digital Process TwinsFramework Definition for Digital Process TwinsDigital Process Twins SimulationDigital Process Twins for What-if Process AnalysisQuality Assurance of Digital Process TwinsEnactment of Digital Process TwinsCollaboration among Digital Process TwinsInteraction and cooperation between Digital Process Twins and HumansPractical validation and case studies of Digital Process Twins.

===Submission Guidelines===
We welcome two kinds of publications: Regular Papers and Short Papers. Regular papers (max 12 pages, including references) original and novel research work, technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. Research papers should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Short papers (5 to 6 pages, including references) should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD.

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair conference submission link.
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the co-authors or a third party.
Selected high quality papers will be recommended to submit an article to a TBD special issue

===Important Dates===
Abstract Submission (recommended) Due: May 20, 2023 Submission Due: May 30, 2023Author Notification Due: June 30, 2023Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2023Workshop: September 12, 2023

===Interactive Sessions===
We will have an interactive workshop with brainstorming and discussion sessions. The conclusions of these sessions might be used to co-create a manifesto in which the community contributes to propose definitions for a better understanding of Digital Process Twins and analyze the challenges and benefits of integrating Digital Twins and Business Process Management.