At the Digital Building Permit (DBP) 2025 conference in Vienna, Austria,
the 'Best Scientific Paper' award was handed to Emma Nuyts, Gerald Haesendonck, Jeroen Werbrouck,
Sofie Van Hoecke, Ben De Meester, Ruben Verstraeten, and Femke Ongenae.
Their paper "Personalized workflows for building permit applications"
introduces a method to enhance transparency of the building permit process for applicants.
To achieve this, they (i) enable stakeholders to model the permit process using Mermaid;
(ii) use MerWeb to translate this process to a semantic workflow by
using FnO-Steps and the DigiChecks ontology and
(iii) generate a context-dependent journey based on these descriptions by using the FnO-Steps composer,
starting from user context and using FnO-Steps to reach a target state.
This approach is demonstrated through a building permit application use case in Flanders.