BPM Newsletter February 2014

The annual International Conference on Business Process Management is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). The BPM Newsletter is intended for the active and growing community involved and/or interested in this conference series and the latest issue can be found here: http://bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/foswiki/pub/BpmConference/BPMNewsletterFebruary2014/BPM-newsletter-Feb2014.pdf.

·         Ready for BPM 2014 in Haifa?
BPM 2014 will take place in Haifa, Israel’s beautiful seaport on the Mediterranean.

·         Procesje: A playful view on BPM
This newsletter includes three funny "procesjes" exposing the irrational behavior of organizations and people when it comes to process management and BPM folklore.

·         Message from the BPM 2014 PC chairs
The first deadline is approaching rapidly: the deadline for papers for the main conference is 14 March 2014 (abstracts).

·         Ten Workshops @ BPM2014
Ten workshops covering the whole BPM spectrum solicit papers (deadline June 1^st). In addition the 11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods is co-located with BPM 2014.

·         Keynote Speakers at BPM 2014
BPM 2014 will feature three fascinating keynotes. These are presented in this newsletter.

·         European BPM Roundtable—Meeting in Liechtenstein
The European BPM Round Table is a federation of over 20 national BPM round tables. These meet on May 15^th in Liechtenstein.

·         BPM Tool Database @ bpm-conference.org
Currently there are about 50 BPM tools in the database including business process modeling tools, business process analysis tools, BPM suites, WFM tools, and BPI tools.

·         Massive Online Course on BPM
In the context of the openHPI initiative the first BPM-MOOC took places.

·         Other News From the BPM Community
For example, BPM researchers and practitioners are encouraged to contribute the BPM Use Case discussion.

 

Wil van der Aalst

Chair of the BPM Steering Committee

 

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