Dr. I.M. (Iris) Beerepoot

Buys Ballotgebouw
Princetonplein 5
Kamer 510
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. I.M. (Iris) Beerepoot

Assistant Professor
Process Science
i.m.beerepoot@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Beerepoot, I., Brinkkemper, S., Huntink, E., Duman, B., Reijers, H. A., & Bleijenberg, N. (2025). Turning dialogues into event data: Lessons from GPT-based recognition of nursing actions. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 172, Article 104957. [DOI] [Portal]
Zuijderwijk, J., Beerepoot, I., Martens, T., Knies, E., van der Lippe, T., & Reijers, H. A. (2025). TAPAS: A Pattern-Based Approach to Assessing Government Transparency. In I. Lindgren, M. P. Rodríguez Bolívar, M. Janssen, E. Loukis, F. Mureddu, P. Panagiotopoulos, G. Viale Pereira, & E. Tambouris (Eds.), Electronic Government - 24th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2025, Proceedings: 24th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2025, Krems, Austria, August 31 – September 4, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 351-367). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15944 LNCS). Springer. [DOI]
Braakman, M. A. J., Beerepoot, I., Peeters, M., Knies, E., & Reijers, H. A. (2025). Identifying and Detecting Patterns in Work Organization with Active Window Tracking. In J. Grabis, T. E. J. Vos, M. J. Escalona, & O. Pastor (Eds.), Research Challenges in Information Science - 19th International Conference, RCIS 2025, Proceedings (pp. 71-86). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 547 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Zuijderwijk, J., Beerepoot, I., Martens, T., Knies, E., van der Lippe, T., & Reijers, H. A. (2025). TAPAS: A Pattern-Based Approach to Assessing Government Transparency. arXiv. [DOI] [Portal]
del Río Ortega, A., Beerepoot, I., van der Aa, H., & Evermann, J. (2025). Process Mining Without Perfect Data? Anne Rozinat Says Yes! A Practitioner’s View on Event Log Quality. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 67(3), 385-387. [DOI] [Portal]
Mahendrawathi, E. R., van der Waal, W., Beerepoot, I., Putra, M. A. R. R., & Propitadewa, H. (2025). Understanding Student Behavior Using Active Window Tracking and Process Mining. In A. Delgado, & T. Slaats (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops - ICPM 2024 International Workshops, Lyngby, Denmark, October 14–18, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 117-128). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 533). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Ortega, A. D. R., Beerepoot, I., van der Aa, H., & Evermann, J. (2025). Mapping Uncharted Territory: Exploring the (Mis)Match Between Event Data and Reality. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 67(3), 305-309. [DOI] [Portal]
Braakman, M. A. J., Zuijderwijk, J., Beerepoot, I., Lugtigheid, S., Martens, T., Peeters, M., Knies, E., & Reijers, H. A. (2025). Mining for Well-Being: The Potential of Process Mining for Evaluating Employee Well-Being. In K. Gdowska, M. T. Gómez-López, & J.-R. Rehse (Eds.), Business Process Management Workshops - BPM 2024 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 180-191). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 534 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Stein Dani, V., Dees, M., Leopold, H., Busch, K., Beerepoot, I., van der Werf, J. M., & Reijers, H. (2025). Event Log Extraction for Process Mining Using Large Language Models. In 30th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2024) (pp. 56-72). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15506). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Martin, N., & Beerepoot, I. (2025). Unveiling Use Cases for Human Resource Mining: A Framework of Past and Future Research. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 67(4), 531–550. [DOI] [Portal]
van der Waal, W., van de Weerd, I., Beerepoot, I., Lu, X., Kappen, T., Haitjema, S., & Reijers, H. (2025). Putting the SWORD to the Test: Finding Workarounds with Process Mining. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 67(2), 171–190. [DOI] [Portal]

Professional publications

Zuijderwijk, J., & Beerepoot, I. (2025). AI4WPM: Een verkenning van AI-gedreven oplossingen voor het verminderen van regeldruk bij werkgebonden personenmobiliteit . Rijksoverheid. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2025/09/05/ai4wpm-een-verkenning-van-ai-gedreven-oplossingen-voor-het-verminderen-van-regeldruk-bij-werkgebonden-personenmobiliteit [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

van der Waal, W., van de Weerd, I., Beerepoot, I., & Reijers, H. (2024). The Emergence and Evolution of Workarounds: A Study of Stability and Change. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) AIS. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2024/org_busproc/org_busproc/3/ [Portal]
Alman, A., Arleo, A., Beerepoot, I., Burattin, A., Ciccio, C. D., & Resinas, M. (2024). A Taste of the Different Flavors of Tiramisù. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3783. [Portal]
Resinas, M., Goñi-Medina, R., Beerepoot, I., del-Río-Ortega, A., & Reijers, H. A. (2024). Work Tagger: A Labelling Companion. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3783. [Portal]
Di Ciccio, C., Fdhila, W., Agostinelli, S., Amyot, D., Leopold, H., Krčál, M., Mandelburger, M. M., Polančič, G., Tomičić-Pupek, K., Gdowska, K., Grisold, T., Sliż, P., Beerepoot, I., Gabryelczyk, R., & Plattfaut, R. (2024). Preface. In Business Process Management: Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, Central and Eastern European, Educators and Industry Forum: BPM 2024 Blockchain, RPA, CEE, Educators and Industry Forum, Krakow, Poland, September 1–6, 2024, Proceedings (Vol. 527, pp. v-vi). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Beerepoot, I. (2024). A Month’s Worth of Labelled Active Window Tracking Data. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3758, 61-65.
Beerepoot, I., Šinik, T., & Reijers, H. A. (2024). Capturing and Analysing Employee Behaviour: An Honest Day's Work Record. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 154, Article 102350. [DOI] [Portal]
Alman, A., Arleo, A., Beerepoot, I., Burattin, A., Di Ciccio, C., & Resinas, M. (2024). Tiramisù: making sense of multi-faceted process information through time and space. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Alman, A., Arleo, A., Beerepoot, I., Burattin, A., Di Ciccio, C., & Resinas, M. (2024). Tiramisù: A Recipe for Visual Sensemaking of Multi-faceted Process Information. In J. De Smedt, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops - ICPM 2023 International Workshops, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 19-31). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 503 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI]
Stein Dani, V., Leopold, H., van der Werf, J. M. E. M., Beerepoot, I., & Reijers, H. (2024). From Loss of Interest to Denial: A Study on the Terminators of Process Mining Initiatives. In G. Guizzardi, F. Santoro, H. Mouratidis, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 36th International Conference, CAiSE 2024, Proceedings (pp. 371-386). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14663 LNCS). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]
Liu, Y., Stein Dani, V., Beerepoot, I., & Lu, X. (2024). Turning Logs Into Lumber: Preprocessing Tasks in Process Mining. In J. De Smedt, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops - ICPM 2023 International Workshops, 2023, Revised Selected Papers: The Event Data & Behavioral Analytics (EdbA 2023) (pp. 98-109). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 503 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI]
Stein Dani, V., Leopold, H., van der Werf, J. M., Beerepoot, I., & Reijers, H. (2024). From Process Mining Insights to Process Improvement: All Talk and No Action? In M. Sellami, W. Gaaloul, M.-E. Vidal, B. van Dongen, & H. Panetto (Eds.), Cooperative Information Systems - 29th International Conference, CoopIS 2023, Proceedings: 29th International Conference, CoopIS 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands, October 30–November 3, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 275-292). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14353 LNCS). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Scholarly publications

Beerepoot, I., Barenholz, D., Beekhuis, S., Gulden, J., Lee, S., Lu, X., Overbeek, S., Van De Weerd, I., Van Der Werf, J. M., & Reijers, H. A. (2023). A Window of Opportunity: Active Window Tracking for Mining Work Practices. In J. Munoz-Gama, S. Rinderle-Ma, & A. Senderovich (Eds.), 5th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM), Rome, Italy, October 23-27, 2023 (pp. 57-64). IEEE. [DOI] [Repository]
Outmazgin, N., van der Waal, W., Beerepoot, I., Hadar, I., van de Weerd, I., & Soffer, P. (2023). From automatic workaround detection to process improvement: a case study. In Business Process Management Forum - BPM 2023 Forum, Proceedings (Vol. 490, pp. 372-390). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 490 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Jongeling, H. E., Lu, X., Beerepoot, I., Weerd, I. V. D., & Reijers, H. A. (2023). Getting Your RPA Priorities Straight with Process Mining: The PLOST Framework. In M. Aanestad, S. Klein, M. Tarafdar, S. Han, S. Laumer, & I. Ramos (Eds.), 31st European Conference on Information Systems - Co-creating Sustainable Digital Futures, ECIS 2023, Kristiansan, Norway, June 11-16, 2023 https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2023_rp/308/ [Repository]
Beerepoot, I., Martin, N., & Koorn, J. (2023). From Insights to INTEL: Evaluating Process Mining Insights with Healthcare Professionals. In T. X. Bui (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3245-3254). (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2023-January). IEEE.
Šinik, T., Beerepoot, I., & Reijers, H. A. (2023). A Peek into the Working Day: Comparing Techniques for Recording Employee Behaviour. In S. Nurcan, A. L. Opdahl, H. Mouratidis, & A. Tsohou (Eds.), Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World - 17th International Conference, RCIS 2023, Proceedings (pp. 343-359). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 476 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Beerepoot, I., Di Ciccio, C., Reijers, H. A., Rinderle-Ma, S., Bandara, W., Burattin, A., Calvanese, D., Chen, T., Cohen, I., Depaire, B., Di Federico, G., Dumas, M., van Dun, C., Fehrer, T., Fischer, D. A., Gal, A., Indulska, M., Isahagian, V., Klinkmüller, C., ... Zerbato, F. (2023). The biggest business process management problems to solve before we die. Computers in Industry, 146, Article 103837. [DOI] [Repository]
de Vargas Pinto, A., Beerepoot, I., & Maçada, A. C. G. (2023). Encourage autonomy to increase individual work performance: the impact of job characteristics on workaround behavior and shadow IT usage. Information Technology and Management, 24(3), 233-246. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Zerbato, F., Koorn, J. J., Beerepoot, I., Weber, B., & Reijers, H. A. (2022). On the Origin of Questions in Process Mining Projects. In J. P. A. Almeida, D. Karastoyanova, G. Guizzardi, M. Montali, F. M. Maggi, & C. M. Fonseca (Eds.), Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing : 26th International Conference, EDOC 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, October 3–7, 2022, Proceedings (1 ed., pp. 165-181). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 13585 ). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Post, R., Beerepoot, I., Lu, X., Kas, S., Wiewel, S., Koopman, A., & Reijers, H. (2022). Active Anomaly Detection for Key Item Selection in Process Auditing. In J. Munoz-Gama, & X. Lu (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops: ICPM 2021 International Workshops, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 31 – November 4, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (1 ed., pp. 167-179). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 433 ). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Waal, W. V. D., Beerepoot, I., Weerd, I. V. D., & Reijers, H. A. (2022). The SWORD is Mightier Than the Interview: A Framework for Semi-automatic WORkaround Detection. In C. Di Ciccio, R. Dijkman, A. del Río Ortega, & S. Rinderle-Ma (Eds.), Business Process Management: 20th International Conference, BPM 2022, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings (1 ed., pp. 91-106). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13420). Springer. [DOI], [DOI] [Repository]
Beerepoot, I. M. (2022). Workarounds: The Path From Detection to Improvement. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Portal]
Munoz-Gama, J., Martin, N., Fernandez-Llatas, C., Johnson, O. A., Sepúlveda, M., Helm, E., Galvez-Yanjari, V., Rojas, E., Martinez-Millana, A., Aloini, D., Amantea, I. A., Andrews, R., Arias, M., Beerepoot, I., Benevento, E., Burattin, A., Capurro, D., Carmona, J., Comuzzi, M., ... Zerbato, F. (2022). Process Mining for Healthcare: Characteristics and Challenges. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 127, 1-15. Article 103994. [DOI] [Repository]
Stein Dani, V., Leopold, H., van der Werf, J. M., Lu, X., Beerepoot, I., Koorn, J., & Reijers, H. (2022). Towards Understanding the Role of the Human in Event Log Extraction. In A. Marrella, & B. Weber (Eds.), Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2021 International Workshops, Rome, Italy, September 6–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 86-98). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 436 LNBIP). Springer. [DOI] [Portal]

2021

Scholarly publications

Beerepoot, I., Di Ciccio, C., Marrella, A., Reijers, H. A., Rinderle-Ma, S., & Weber, B. (Eds.) (2021). Proceedings of the International Workshop on BPM Problems to Solve Before We Die (PROBLEMS 2021) co-located with the 19th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021), Rome, Italy, September 6-10, 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). CEUR-WS.org. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2938/
van de Weerd, I., Nieuwenhuis, B., Bex, F., & Beerepoot, I. (2021). Using AI to augment RPA: A conceptual framework. Paper presented at 29th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2021, Marrakech, Morocco. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2021_rp/129/
Andel, V. V., Beerepoot, I., Lu, X., Weerd, I. V. D., & Reijers, H. A. (2021). DEUCE - A Methodology for Detecting Unauthorized Access of Electronic Health Records Using Process Mining.. Paper presented at 29th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2021, Marrakech, Morocco. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2021_rp/66
Koorn, J. J., Beerepoot, I., Dani, V. S., Lu, X., Weerd, I. V. D., Leopold, H., & Reijers, H. A. (2021). Bringing Rigor to the Qualitative Evaluation of Process Mining Findings: An Analysis and a Proposal. In C. Di Ciccio, C. Di Francescomarino, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Proceedings - 2021 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021 (pp. 120-127). IEEE. [DOI] [Portal]
Beerepoot, I., Di Ciccio, C., Reijers, H. A., & Rinderle-Ma, S. (2021). The biggest business process management problems of our time. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2938, 51-56. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2938/ [Repository]
Beerepoot, I., Di Ciccio, C., Marrella, A., Reijers, H. A., Rinderle-Ma, S., & Weber, B. (2021). Preface. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2938. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2938/ [Repository]
Beerepoot, I., Lu, X., Van De Weerd, I., & Alexander Reijers, H. (2021). Seeing the Signs of Workarounds: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Detection of Nurses’ Process Deviations. 3763-3772. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Noppen, P., Beerepoot, I., van de Weerd, I., Jonker, M., & Reijers, H. A. (2020). How to Keep RPA Maintainable? In D. Fahland, C. Ghidini, J. Becker, & M. Dumas (Eds.), Business Process Management: 18th International Conference, BPM 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13–18, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 453-470). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12168 ). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]

2019

Scholarly publications

Beerepoot, I., van de Weerd, I., & Reijers, H. A. (2019). The Potential of Workarounds for Improving Processes. In C. Di Francescomarino, R. Dijkman, & U. Zdun (Eds.), Business process management workshops: BPM 2019 international workshops Vienna, Austria, September 1-6, 2019 : revised selected papers (pp. 338-350). (Lecture notes in business information processing; Vol. 362). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Beerepoot, I. M., Koorn, J. J., van de Weerd, G. C., van den Hoof, B., Leopold, H., & Reijers, H. A. (2019). Working around health information systems: The role of power.
Beerepoot, I., van de Weerd, I., & Reijers, H. A. (2019). Business Process Improvement Activities: Differences in Organizational Size, Culture, and Resources. In T. Hildebrandt, B. F. van Dongen, M. Röglinger, & J. Mendling (Eds.), Business Process Management - 17th International Conference, BPM 2019, Proceedings (pp. 402-418). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11675 LNCS). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Van de Weerd, I., Vollers, P., Beerepoot, I., & Fantinato, M. (2019). Workarounds in retail work systems: prevent, redesign, adopt or ignore?. Paper presented at European Conference on Information Systems 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. [Repository]
Beerepoot, I. M., Ouali, A., van de Weerd, G. C., & Reijers, H. A. (2019). Working around health information systems: To accept or not to accept?. Paper presented at European Conference on Information Systems 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1181&context=ecis2019_rp

2018

Scholarly publications

Beerepoot, I., & Van De Weerd, I. (2018). Prevent, redesign, adopt or ignore: Improving healthcare using knowledge of workarounds. Paper presented at 26th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2018, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.