BPM 2016 - 14th conference in the field of Business Process Management (BPM 2016)

BPM 2016 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city in Brazil, best known for its carnival atmosphere, its passion for soccer and music, and its pristine nature with stunning beaches and tropical forests. Rio never fails to impress its visitors with its modern outlook that reflects its evolution throughout the years, but also with its historic sites and overjoyed attitude of the locals. We welcome you to participate in the most important conference on BPM, and to contribute to shaping the BPM methods and technologies of the future in the unique atmosphere of Rio. BPM 2016 will feature a rich program including a dedicated research track, an industry track, a demonstration track, tutorials and panels, and a varied set of workshops and co-located events.
Topics
BPM 2016 explicitly encourages papers that report on interdisciplinary aspects of BPM and on research in emerging BPM areas, as well as papers that advance knowledge in the areas of business process analysis and improvement. The thematic areas reflect these interests besides those in traditional BPM topics such as process modeling and execution. Submissions from industry or industrial research labs are encouraged, provided they fulfil the scientific rigor expected from any other paper submitted to the research track.
A separate industry track will host papers that specifically report on problems and experiences related to the deployment of BPM methods and tools in practice. These papers will be reviewed by a separate committee including representatives from industry, and assessed on the basis of their practical relevance rather than their scientific merit. More information can be found on the industry track page.
The thematic areas of the research track 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. Each major topic is championed by senior PC members who will promote the topic and lead the review processes taking into consideration the characteristics of the particular thematic area.
BPM in a broader context
Topic champions: Avigdor Gal, Pericles Loucopoulos, Matthias Weske
? Decision management and BPM
? Events handling and BPM
? BPM and enterprise architecture
? BPM and auditing
? Automated planning in BPM
? Scientific workflows and BPM
? Software process management
? X-aware BPM (e.g. risk-aware, security-aware, cost-aware, green-aware)
? Operations research for business processes
? BPM in selected application domains (e.g. healthcare, financial, government)
Emerging areas of BPM
Topic champions: Florian Daniel, Massimo Mecella, Farouk Toumani
? Social BPM
? BPM and Cloud computing
? BPM and Crowdsourcing
? Human-centric processes and knowledge-intensive processes
? Processes in the Internet of Things and Wearable devices
? Mobile processes
? Collective Adaptive Processes
Management aspects of BPM
Topic champions: Heinrich Mayr, Andreas Oberweis, Michael Rosemann
? BPM lifecycle management
? BPM strategic alignment and governance
? BPM people and culture
? BPM maturity: success factors and measures
? Customer process management
? Adoption and practice of BPM
? Process change management
? BPM and other organizational management disciplines (e.g. project management, risk management, IT governance)
Process identification and modeling foundations
Topic champions: Jörg Desel, Matthias Weidlich, Pnina Soffer
? Process architectures and value chains
? Reference process models
? Process modeling languages (imperative, declarative, non-visual)
? Process model quality (verification, validation, certification)
? Foundation of process design
? Formal methods in BPM
? Management of process model collections (e.g. querying, refactoring, similarity search, versioning)
? Process variability and configuration
? Artefact-centric processes
Process analysis and improvement
Topic champions: Jan Mendling, Hajo Reijers, Barbara Weber
? Qualitative and quantitative process analysis (e.g. process simulation)
? Incremental process improvement
? Transformational process change
? Process innovation
? Customer-centric process redesign
? BPM and other process improvement disciplines (e.g. Lean management, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management)
Process execution, monitoring and intelligence
Topic champions: Josep Carmona, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Shazia Sadiq, Jianwen Su, Boudewijn van Dongen
? Process execution architectures (e.g. process-oriented, service-oriented)
? BPM systems
? Case management
? Adaptive and context-aware process execution
? Management of process execution aspects (e.g. resources, data)
? Process dashboards, analytics and visualization of big process data
? Process mining methods (automated discovery, conformance checking, performance mining, deviance and variants mining, operational support)
? Process mining and parallel processing
? Process compliance (run-time and post-mortem)
? Process data integration and data quality