Topics of Interest

The forum covers a broad range of topics from Computer Science and Engineering, Management, and Information and Communication Technology related to BPM. In particular, the focus is on providing foundations, languages, methodologies, systems and tools for BPM, along with applications of these methodologies.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Fundamentals and theory of processes

• • Foundations of business processes and process models

  • Process description methods and formalisms

  • Business process analysis, including verification

  • Foundations of process design and synthesis

  • Variability and configuration of processes

  • Artifact-centric processes

  • Managing process collections and repositories

Process execution and analysis

• • Process-oriented and service-oriented software architectures

  • Business process management systems

  • Resource and data management in business process execution

  • Process monitoring and performance measurement

  • Adaptive and context-aware process execution

  • Analytics and visualization of process data

  • Data integration and data quality in business processes

  • Security and Risk Management in business process execution

Process Mining

• • Automated Discovery of Process models

  • Conformance/compliance analysis

  • Multi-perspective Process Mining

  • Predictive Process Analytics

  • Decision Mining

  • Techniques for constructing and improving the quality of event logs

  • Process model repair

  • Process Performance Mining and Quality Measures

BPM in a broader context:

• • BPM in and for the Cloud

  • Blockchains and BPM

  • Social BPM and User-centric aspects of BPM

  • Human-centric processes and knowledge-intensive processes

  • Processes in the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices

  • Adaptive case management and collective adaptive processes

  • Artificial Intelligent techniques for BPM

  • Decision management and BPM

  • Event handling and BPM

  • BPM in healthcare and the medical context