In this episode we talk with Claudio Di Ciccio about declarative process modelling, and adjacent topics in process mining.Claudio Di Ciccio is an assistant professor with the Institute for Information Business at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria. His research interests include process mining, declarative process modelling, blockchains, and service oriented computing. In 2015, his paper entitled “Ensuring Model Consistency in Declarative Process Discovery” has received the best paper award of the 13th conference on Business Process Management. In August 2018, he was Researcher of the Month of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.Recommended PhD theses:Maja Pešić: “Constraint-based workflow management systems: shifting control to users”https://doi.org/10.6100/IR638413Johannes De Smedt: “Studies on Declarative Process Modeling and Its Relation to Procedural Techniques”https://lirias.kuleuven.be/1834742 Online resources about MINERfulMINERful website: https://github.com/cdc08x/MINERfulMINERful wiki: https://github.com/cdc08x/MINERful/wiki Slides:Introductory slides on declarative process specifications: https://www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/introduction-to-the-declarative-specification-of-processesSlides on declarative process discovery: https://www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/automated-discovery-of-declarative-process-models Slides on declarative process discovery and reasoning: https://www.slideshare.net/cdc08x/declarative-specification-of-processes-discovery-and-reasoningClaudio's website:http://diciccio.netPapers mentioned during the interview:The one about activity-events matching (it’s open access!): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-017-0603-zThe one about process drift: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06386Find A SIDE OF DATA on twitter: https://twitter.com/ASideOFDataAnd on the web: asideofdata.comSEND us an email with suggestions: [email protected]