3rd International Workshop on
Processes, Laws and Compliance (PLC)

Co-located with the 8th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2027)
Rende, Italy, from February 8 to February 12, 2027, at the University of Calabria

The PLC workshop will be held on 8 February 2027.

The Processes, Laws and Compliance (PLC) workshop aims to provide a forum for the exchange of research findings and ideas on data-driven and process-oriented techniques and practices in the legal domain, fostering collaboration among interdisciplinary experts, researchers, and practitioners working in IT and law.

Research in legal informatics has grown in recent decades, not least due to the spread of information systems capable of recording the data of legal processes (legal event logs), the texts of tenders, and the temporal dimensions of legal procedures. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques provide a valuable means of analysing legal processes to gather insights into legal matters that can support the work of public administrations and private companies in the legal field.

Examples of areas that are expected to benefit from the application of AI techniques, such as Process Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, are the automated discovery of actual legal procedures from historical data; the formalisation of legal requirements using process discovery; the verification of regulatory compliance of procedures; the prediction of the unfolding of ongoing legal cases, among others. At the same time, implementing process mining technologies brings several challenges regarding the deployment and effective use of their outcomes: how to apply these techniques in a privacy-sensitive manner and how to address potential biases in predictions are among them.