BPM 2015 - 13th conference in the field of Business Process Management (BPM 2015)

The annual BPM conference is the leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) to explore and exchange knowledge on BPM. The conference covers all aspects of BPM research and practice, including theory, applications, management and technology of BPM, and engages the most renowned representatives of the BPM community worldwide in talks, tutorials, and scientific discussions.
BPM as a research field and as an industry practice has significantly matured and increased its span, but is also facing new and unprecedented challenges such as a need to foster true innovation rather than improvement, to make use of big data opportunities and to account for processes that are increasingly adaptive, flexible and generative rather than structured, formalized and stable.
These new topics add to existing areas of interest and relevance to BPM research and industry. They also attest to an increasingly interdisciplinary nature of BPM research, which puts the conference in close connection to disciplines such as Information Systems, Management and Organizational Science, Data and Knowledge Management, Theory of Processes, Operations Management, Service-Oriented Computing, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and many more.
BPM 2015 will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, in the midst of Tyrol’s breathtaking scenery and stunning mountains. A university town, with a strong record of academic excellence and a vibrant student scene, Innsbruck combines tradition and splendour with modern facilities and attractions. We hope you will join us in this international conference and Olympic city to help shape the BPM methods and technologies of the future. BPM 2015 will feature an industry track, a varied set of BPM-related workshops and co-located events. For the first time, BPM 2015 will also look to host tutorials dedicated to research methods relevant to BPM.
Topics
In line with the emergent opportunities and challenges, BPM 2015 explicitly encourages papers that report on research in emerging BPM areas and novel applications of BPM concepts, as well as interdisciplinary BPM research that connects to Operations Research, Management Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Sensor Technologies and others. To foster such submissions, BPM 2015 will include two new thematic areas, “BPM in a broader context” and “Emerging areas of BPM”. As in previous editions, the BPM conference continues to welcome research papers on traditional BPM topics such as modelling, analysis, improvement, and execution.
Besides regular research papers, authors may submit industry papers, clearly marked as such. All authors of an industry paper submission *must be* from industry or industrial research labs (none of authors can be from an academic institute or a university). An industry paper reports on work within the broad topics of interests to BPM conference but is focused on practice, typically studying requirements imposed by current practice, reporting new problems, or experience on the deployment of methods, solutions, tools or systems in practice. Similar to research papers, industry submissions will be reviewed by multiple PC members including representatives from industry and industrial research labs, and are required to meet the same high quality standards for novelty, technical quality, clarity of the contribution and presentation, and relevance to the topics of interest in BPM community.
Thematic areas in which contributions are sought include, but are not limited to, those listed below. Submissions may fit more than one category, however, corresponding authors will be asked to nominate one primary category for submission. As previously, each major topic is championed by senior PC members, who will promote the topic and lead the review processes taking into consideration specific characteristics of the particular thematic area.
BPM in a broader context: the intersection of BPM and other disciplines
Topic champions: Avigdor Gal, Roel Wieringa, Mathias Weske
Decision management and BPM
Event handling and BPM
BPM and enterprise architecture
BPM and auditing
Automated planning in BPM
Sensor technologies and BPM
Scientific workflows and BPM
Software process management
Security and Risk Management in business process execution
Operations research for business processes
BPM in healthcare and the medical context
Emerging areas of BPM
Topic champions: Florian Daniel, Akhil Kumar, Farouk Toumani
BPM in and for the Cloud
BPM with and for the Crowd
Social BPM
User-centric aspects of BPM
Human-centric processes and knowledge-intensive processes
Processes in the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices
Mobile processes
Collective adaptive processes
Management and applications of BPM
Topic champions: Jan vom Brocke, Hajo Reijers, Michael Rosemann
Business process lifecycle management
Relationship between business strategy and business processes
Business process transformation and change management
Success factors and measures in BPM
BPM governance and compliance management
BPM maturity
Adoption and Practice of BPM
Customer process management
Design-led process innovation
Process execution and data management
Topic champions: Boudewijn van Dongen, Marlon Dumas, Michael zur Muehlen, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Process-oriented and service-oriented software architectures
Business process management systems
Resource management in business process execution
Managing process execution data
Process monitoring and performance measurement
Adaptive and context-aware process execution
Process mining
Analytics and visualization of big process data
Process data warehousing
(Adaptive) Case management
Data and event streams in business processes
Data integration and data quality in business processes
Fundamentals and theory of processes
Topic champions: Jörg Desel, Marcello La Rosa, Pnina Soffer, Jianwen Su
Foundations of business processes and process models
Process description and analysis methods and formalisms
Algorithms for the analysis of processes
Reference process models
Foundation of process design and synthesis
Artefact-centric processes
Process architectures
Variability and configuration of processes
Managing process collections and repositories