Process in Chains is a collective of computing scientists whose research covers automated reasoning, decentralized architectures, and confidential computing with a special application focus on process science and blockchain technologies.
Core contributors are APWBS, Cecilia Iacometta, Claudio Di Ciccio, Davide Basile, IReallyLikeYourPants, Luca Barbaro, and Valerio Goretti.
Our research investigates how modern decentralized and privacy-preserving technologies can support the design and analysis of complex information systems. In particular, we study methods for declarative process mining and automated reasoning on event data, develop techniques for privacy-preserving process analytics, design blockchain-based process-aware information systems, and explore architectures for decentralized governance and oracle-based infrastructures that enable trustworthy data exchange across distributed environments.
Some of the research prototypes and frameworks developed within this organization include:
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MINERful – an open-source toolkit for declarative process mining, supporting automated discovery, simplification, simulation, and conformance analysis of process constraints.
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CONFINE – a framework for confidentiality-preserving process mining that leverages trusted execution environments to enable secure analysis of sensitive event logs.
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CONFETTY – an architecture for blockchain-based process-aware information systems that balances transparency and confidentiality through smart contracts and attribute-based encryption.
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Decentralized Oracles – mechanisms to securely integrate external data sources into decentralized process infrastructures and blockchain-based workflows.