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• Making Social BPM Mean Business
• Large Process Models and Process Model Collections
• Rules-driven Dynamic Case Management
• Efficient BPMN: from Anti-Patterns to Best Practices

Abstract

Contemporary BPM systems fit very well with traditional architectures that are based on a pull invocation principle, such as SOA. The proliferation of sensors and streams of events has lead to event driven architectures that decouple event producers and consumers. EDAs are push-based and support different control structures. Future BPM systems must therefore deal both with pull and push-based architectures. In this talk we will analyze the interplay of the different architectures, their components and the desirable and achievable correctness notions and non-functional properties.

About the presenter
Alejandro Buchmann is professor for databases and distributed systems in the Computer Science Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt. His current interests are event based systems and middleware, large adaptive distributed systems, sensor networks, and data management on new storage media.

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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 talk will describe the history of the conference series through the prism of typical BPM use cases and six key BPM concerns: Process Modeling Languages, Process Enactment Infrastructures, Process Model Analysis, Process Mining, Process Flexibility, and Process Reuse. Although BPM has matured as a research discipline, there are still various important problems that remain open. Moreover, despite the broad interest in BPM, there is significant room for improvement when it comes to the the adoption of state-of-the-art results by software vendors, consultants, and end-users. The BPM discipline should not shy away from the key challenges and set clear targets for the next decade.

About the presenter
Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of Information Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests include business process management, process mining and Petri nets. Prof. van der Aalst has published over 400 journal and conference papers, 50 book chapters and 17 books (as author or editor). With over 33,000 citations and an H-index of 88 according to Google Scholar, prof. van der Aalst is the most-cited Dutch computer scientist. His ideas, particular on “workflow patterns” and “process mining” have influenced tool vendors and standardization efforts, most prominently the BPMN standard for process modeling. He is member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) and the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).

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BPMN and its Future

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Standard was kicked off in 2002. It took many years to develop and then gain a place in the BPM market. Now, on version 2, BPMN is established as the major process modeling language for most BPM software tools. These tools range from descriptive process modeling to process management systems. This presentation contains a brief review of how BPMN came into being and a summary of the overall BPMN capabilities. Looking towards the future, the presentation will discuss how BPMN could be extended to handle additional process modeling challenges, such as for Case Management and the modeling of service implementations.
About the presenter
Dr Stephen A. White – best known as the “father” of BPMN – is a BPM Architect at IBM. He has over 25 years of process modeling experience, ranging from modeling pilot workload to commercial business processes, and has been involved in most aspects of business process modeling software, from product management, design, consulting, training, and technical writing. In the last few years, he has been active in the development of business modeling standards, and served as the primary editor of the BPMN 1.0 and BPMN 2.0 specifications.

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