About the Working Conference

The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on business processes and their IT support. This is one of the keystones of information systems theory beyond short-lived fashions. The continued interest in this topic on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the success of the past BPMDS events, and their promotion from a workshop to a working conference.

The BPMDS series has produced fifteen events from 1998 to 2014. From 2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). The basic principles of the BPMDS series:

1. BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the areas of business development, and business applications (software) development

2. The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than presentations.

3. Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers.

4. Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue of an international journal.

The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the web site: http://www.bpmds.org/history 

Topics for discussion

BPMDS solicits papers related to Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) in general, using quality as a main selection criterion. As a working conference, we would like to attract papers describing mature research, but we still give place to industrial reports and visionary idea papers. To encourage new and emerging challenges and research directions in the area of business process modeling, development and support, we have a unique focus theme every year. Papers submitted as idea papers will be required to be of relevance to the focus theme, thus providing a mass of new ideas around a relatively narrow but emerging research area. Full research papers and experience reports are not required to be directly connected to this theme (they still need to be explicitly relevant to BPMDS though). The focus theme for BPMDS'15 idea papers is:

Enabling value creation via business process modeling, development and support

More than two decades after Hammer and Champy made the explicit link between business processes and value, this relationship is still unclear.

For the 16th edition of the BPMDS conference, we invite the interested authors to engage, through their idea papers and the discussions during the two days of BPMDS’2015 in Stockholm, in a deep discussion with all participants about what is value, how it is provided and how it is captured through business process modeling, development and support.

We also welcome research papers that include ideas on how theoretical results discussed can be used in practice, as well as experience reports on using theories in practice. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

Value Creation and BPMDS
- Do projects of business process modeling or development help to create value directly or indirectly?
- How can value created by BPMDS be assessed and captured?
- Does a BPS (business process support) system always lead to value creation/capturing (directly or indirectly)?
- What are the relationships between various types of BPS systems (SoS vs WFMS for instance) and types of value they help to create?
- Does social software facilitate the creation of a different kind of value than a traditional workflow system?
- What are the barriers to value creation or/and capture from BP-related projects?
- Are there specific conditions for value creation from BP-related projects?
- Cases where BP-related projects created value
- Cases where BP-projects created no values
- Interactions between Value Creation and BPMDS
- Impact of Value Creation / Co-Creation on Business Process Life-Cycle: Design, Deployment, Operation and Evaluation. - Representing requirements of Value Creation
- Value management in business processes
- User integration for value co-creation

Business Process Modeling
- Business process modeling languages, notations and methods
- Multi-perspectives on business process modeling
- Integrating Value into Business Process Modeling
- Representing Value Co-Creation
- Coherence among multi-perspective representations
- Theoretical foundations for analyzing, modeling business processes
- Verification and validation of business process models
- Variability and adaptability of business process models
- Dynamic configuration; modeling by reuse
- Granularity, development of reusable and context-aware components; modeling for reuse
- Domain specific reference models
- Business process modeling enhanced by social software and social networks Business Process Support
- Support for Value-Co-Creation e.g. Social Software
- Business process change management and governance issues
- Theoretical foundations for simulating or executing business processes
- Business process support architectures and platforms
- Business process support based on a service-oriented architecture
- Business process support combined with social software and social networks
- Work allocation in business processes
- Actor support vs control support in business processes
- Enhancing creativity in business processes
- Mobile technologies and context aware business processes 
- Business processes using cloud-services 

Requirements on Business Processes
- Value co-creation
- Value management/engineering in business processes
- User integration for value co-creation
- Compliance, reliability, security, performance
- Flexibility, variability, adaptability
- Metrics, maturity and continuous improvement
- Strategy, business processes, people and IT: alignment, fit and coherence
- Knowledge-intensive business processes
- Context aware business processes
- Cross-organizational business processes
- Data-intensive business processes
- BPMDS in the cloud