Ebook: Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2007 International Workshops, BPI, BPD, CBP, ProHealth, RefMod, semantics4ws, Brisbane, Australia, September 24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of 6 internationl workshops held in Brisbane, Australia, in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, in September 2007.

The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 80 submissions to the following 6 international workshops: Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2007), Business Process Design (BPD 2007), Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007), Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth 2007), Reference Modeling (RefMod 2007), and Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws 2007).

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These proceedings contain the final versions of papers accepted for the workshopsthat were held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on BusinessProcess Management (BPM 2007) that took place in Brisbane, Australia.Twenty workshop proposals were submitted for this conference of which sevenwere selected. Ultimately this resulted in six workshops that ran concurrentlyon September 24 2007. This was the third year running for BPM workshops, atestament to the continued success of the workshop program.The BPM community’s ongoing strong interest in process modelling, design,measurement and analysis were well reflected in the “Business Process Intelligence”and “Business Process Design” workshops. This year’s workshops alsoincluded two new emerging areas that have gained increased attention: “CollaborativeBusiness Processes”—a topic which explores the challenges in seamlessintegration of and collaboration between business processes from differentorganizations, and “Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare”—atopic which recognizes the importance of patient-centered process support inhealthcare and looks into the potential benefits and limitations of IT supportfor healthcare processes. The “Reference Modeling” workshop covered languagesfor reference modelling, evaluation and adaptation of reference models, and applicationsof such models. Finally, the “Advances in Semantics for Web Services”workshop considered some of the latest research efforts in the field of SemanticWeb services including relevant tools and techniques and real-world applicationsof such services.