IWPE 2015 - First International Workshop on Process Engineering (IWPE)

Business process management as a scientific discipline has been very successful in developing concepts, languages, algorithms, and techniques in different aspects of the domain. Many of those concepts and techniques, however, did not yet find their way to the operational business of companies. One of the reasons for the weak uptake of research results in business process management is the lack of research in engineering aspects of process oriented information systems.
Engineering focuses on the entire value chain of system development, from the elicitation of business requirements to the engineering of suitable architectures, components and user interfaces of process systems, as well as their testing, deployment, and maintenance. The proposed workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in all engineering aspects of the design and implementation of process-oriented information systems.
Topics
Methodologies for the design and engineering of process applications
Requirements engineering of process systems
Testing process systems
User interface design of process systems
Deployment aspects of process systems
Novel architectures in process design and implementation
Design of process engines
Empirical aspects of process systems
Lessons learned from process implementation projects
Cloud and service-based processes
Cloud-based process enactment
Goals and Intended Audience
The goal of the workshop is providing a forum for researchers and practitioners in different disciplines that are relevant for the workshop theme. Experts in the broad research areas of business process management and software engineering are invited to join. We expect stimulating discussions of engineering approaches on the edge of software engineering and business process management. It will be interesting to discuss in how far software engineering methods and techniques in, for instance, requirements engineering, software architectures and testing can be used to tackle process engineering challenges. On the other hand, process management results could also complement software engineering techniques in areas like requirements elicitation and software architectures.