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A Decade of Business Process Management Conferences: Personal Reflections on a Developing Discipline

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Business Process Management (BPM 2012)

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The Business Process Management (BPM) conference series celebrates its tenth anniversary. This is a nice opportunity to reflect on a decade of BPM research. This paper describes the history of the conference series, enumerates twenty typical BPM use cases, and identifies six key BPM concerns: process modeling languages, process enactment infrastructures, process model analysis, process mining, process flexibility, and process reuse. Although BPM matured as a research discipline, there are still various important open problems. Moreover, despite the broad interest in BPM, the adoption of state-of-the-art results by software vendors, consultants, and end-users leaves much to be desired. Hence, the BPM discipline should not shy away from the key challenges and set clear targets for the next decade.

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    Alistair Barros

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

    Avigdor Gal

  3. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, 2800, Kgs. Lynbgy, Denmark

    Ekkart Kindler

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van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2012). A Decade of Business Process Management Conferences: Personal Reflections on a Developing Discipline. In: Barros, A., Gal, A., Kindler, E. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32885-5_1

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