Special Session on Advancing Business Process Management (A-BPM)

SPECIAL SESSION SCOPE

Over the last decades, Business Process Management (BPM) research field has delivered a large collection of methods, techniques and tools to effectively discover, analyze, (re)design, execute and monitor business processes. The successful development of high-quality process-oriented information systems, however, requires a coherent mixture of methods, tools, and techniques originating not only from the BPM but also from other engineering disciplines, such as software engineering. Software engineering has long been a source of inspiration for the BPM field. However, BPM also offers novel approaches that bring fundamental changes to the way the process-oriented systems are designed, implemented and maintained. Particularly the paradigm shift towards more agile, participative and stakeholder-driven BPM relates to many Software Development topics like Reactive Programming, Microservices or Agent Technology. Hence, mutual effort could be worthwhile to bring benefit to both communities.

We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute to the special session on the practical and theoretical aspects of the BPM, particularly those that are in relation to software engineering methods, techniques and tools, and their applications in implementing “process-oriented systems”. Contributions that would raise discussions on the possibilities to integrate approaches in the BPM and software engineering fields are encouraged.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

• Requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of “process-oriented information systems”
• Business process lifecycle management (possibly in relation to Software management)
• Business process modeling (possibly in relation to Requirements engineering, Software modeling and design)
• Business process design and execution (possibly in relation to Model-based software development)
• Business process improvement (possibly in relation to Software process improvement)
• Business process implementation (possibly in relation to Reactive Programming, Microservices, Service-based systems & SOA)
• Various Aspects of interfacing BPM with Agent Technologies (agent types, frameworks, notations, interface definition languages, APIs, architectures, schemes, transformation techniques a.t.l.)
• BPM Systems (possibly in relation to Software development)
• Agile BPM (possibly in relation to Agile software development)
• Business process model quality (possibly in relation to Software [model] quality)
• Business process model understandability (possibly in relation to Software [model] understandability)
• Business process maintainability (possibly in relation to Software maintainability)
• Business process maturity (possibly in relation to Software process maturity)
• Organizational and cultural aspects of BPM
• Business strategy, business models and business processes
• Business process architecture
• Cross-organizational BPM
• Adaptive Case Management
• Stakeholder-driven BPM
• Business process and software evolution
• BPMN and UML

Session Organizers

Oktay Turetken
Werner Schmidt

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands
Onur Demirors, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Albert Fleischmann, InterAktiv Unternehmensberatung, Germany
Udo Kannengiesser, Metasonic GMBH, Germany
Mikhail Komarov, NRU Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia
Rob Kusters, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Matthias Kurz, QUA-LiS NRW, Germany
Stefan Oppl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hajo Reijers, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Renninger, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Germany
Robert Singer, Joanneum Graz, Austria
Chris Stary, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Ayca Tarhan, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Jos Trienekens, Open University / TUe, Netherlands
Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Cornelia Zehbold, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany