Best PhD award CAiSE 2017. The CAiSE PhD Award is granted to outstanding PhD theses in the field of Information Systems Engineering. The award, co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer, consists of a certificate, a free full registration (5 days) to the next two CAiSE conferences, and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500,- from Springer’s printed books collection. In addition, my thesis is going to be published as a monograph in the LNBIP series by Springer in 2018.