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| BPM Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | BPM Conference |
| Status | Active |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Established | 1999 |
| Discipline | Business Process Management |
BPM Conference
The BPM Conference is an annual international forum focused on Business process management, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and vendors from institutions such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, and Amazon (company). Founded in 1999, the conference attracts participants from universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Technische Universität München, and University of Queensland as well as research labs such as IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and Siemens AG. It serves as a nexus for collaborations with standards bodies including Object Management Group, World Wide Web Consortium, IEEE and connects to forums like SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, ICSE, and AAAI.
The conference covers topics spanning workflow management, process mining, case management, service-oriented architecture, and business rules with links to initiatives by European Commission, National Science Foundation (United States), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Australian Research Council, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Attendees include representatives from corporations such as Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, Capgemini, KPMG and vendors like Fujitsu, TIBCO Software, Software AG, BonitaSoft, and Camunda. The program often features collaborations with academic conferences like ICES, ECAI, IJCAI, SAC, and EDM.
The inaugural meeting drew contributors from universities including University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, Eindhoven University of Technology, Universität Zürich, and Università di Bologna, as well as industry partners such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAP SE, and Sun Microsystems. Over time the conference integrated themes from Business Process Reengineering pioneers and adopted methods influenced by works from Michael Hammer, James Champy, Peter G. W. Keen, Thomas H. Davenport, and frameworks like Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, Total Quality Management, and COBIT. It evolved alongside technologies from XML, SOAP, REST, BPEL, and BPMN and engaged with standards organizations including ISO, IEC, and OMG.
Typical themes treat intersections with process mining research by groups linked to Eindhoven University of Technology and RWTH Aachen University, formal methods from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, and data-driven approaches showcased at SIGKDD and ICDM. Research areas often reference seminal works and toolchains such as ProM, Apromore, Disco (software), Celonis, and ARIS and draw on methods from Petri nets communities at Technische Universität Berlin and Université catholique de Louvain. Cross-disciplinary sessions feature contributions related to cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, blockchain, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and industry cases from General Electric, Siemens AG, Bosch, and Johnson & Johnson.
The conference is overseen by steering committees with members from institutions such as University of Tartu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, King's College London, University of Twente, and Delft University of Technology and industry liaisons from IBM, SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Camunda, and Celonis. Governance structures mirror practices seen in ACM, IEEE, IFIP, and AIS with program committees chaired by scholars from University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Sponsorship and funding have come from bodies such as European Research Council, Horizon 2020, DARPA, and corporate partners like Google and Facebook.
Annual venues have included cities tied to major universities and organizations: Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Vienna (Austria), Sevilla, Rome, Gothenburg, Buenos Aires, Bangalore, Beijing, Melbourne, New York City, Lisbon, Prague, Amsterdam, and Athens. Program elements comprise peer-reviewed tracks, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortia, demo sessions, and industry panels with joint events alongside ICEIS, CADE, ICFP, SOSP, and UAI. Proceedings are published in outlets connected to Springer Science+Business Media, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and special issues of journals like Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Decision Support Systems, and Business & Information Systems Engineering.
Keynotes have featured academics and practitioners affiliated with MIT, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Society, and corporate leaders from IBM, Microsoft, SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Google, Amazon (company), Facebook, and Siemens AG. Influential contributions presented at the conference include advances in process discovery and conformance checking from researchers connected to Eindhoven University of Technology, algorithmic improvements inspired by work at ETH Zurich and RWTH Aachen University, and industrial case studies from Shell, BP (company), Siemens Energy, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble.
The conference has shaped curricula at institutions like Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, Nanyang Technological University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology and influenced standards and tools developed by OMG, ISO, and commercial vendors including SAP SE and Camunda. It is cited in literature across journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Research, ACM Computing Surveys, and Communications of the ACM and has fostered spin-off companies linked to research groups at Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Padua, and Technische Universität München.
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