Topics
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
Business process modeling and analysis
- Languages, notations and methods
- Reference models
- Process composition and synthesis
- Process model repository management
- Process model similarity
- Process model configuration and variability management
- Simulation and static analysis
- Meta-data and semantic reasoning
- Process patterns
- Process quality
- Process improvement and optimization
- Aspect-oriented process modeling
Process architectures and platforms
- Process-oriented software architectures
- Service-oriented architectures for BPM
- Workflow management systems
- Security of process execution
- Automatic planning for process execution
- Resource management for process execution
Management of process execution data
- Process tracing and monitoring
- Dynamic process analysis and process performance measurement
- Process mining and learning
- Process data warehousing
- Data streaming in business processes
- Process data visualization
Process evolution and flexibility
- Process exception handling
- Process change management
- Monitoring of and provenance support for change
- Adaptive and context-aware processes
- Case handling
- Process-enhanced groupware
Management Issues and Empirical Studies
- Business process lifecycle management
- Requirements modeling and process design
- Success factors and measures in BPM
- BPM governance and compliance management
- Relationship between business strategy and business process
- BPM maturity
- Adoption and practice of BPM
- Success stories and experiences in BPM practices
Non-traditional BPM Scenarios
- Distributed process management
- Knowledge-intensive processes
- Data-driven business processes
- Distributed and mobile processes
- Inter-process planning and coordination
- Scientific processes / grid workflows
- Process management in the life sciences
- Process management in e-health systems
Challenges of BPM in enterprises and governments
- Requirement acquisition around business processes
- Innovative BPM implementations and applications
- The impact of BPM on information technology use and business practice
