Boudewijn F. van Dongen – författare

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019. The 23 full and 4 tutorial short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: foundations; engineering; and management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held during the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, which took place in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: specification; execution; analytics; and management.

This Festschrift is dedicated to Wil van der Aalst, a leading pioneer in the disciplines of Business Process Management and Process Mining.Wil van der Aalst received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology during the 1980s. Among other current roles he is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group, and he is Chief Scientist at Celonis. His research interests include process mining, data science, Petri nets, process management, workflow management, process modeling, and process analysis. He has over 1000 journal articles and conference papers, he is among the most highly cited computer scientists in the world, and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees. Among his achievements and awards Prof. van der Aalst has received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics, Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University. He is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow, and an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Academia Europaea, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering.Throughout his career Prof. van der Aalst has collaborated with hundreds of researchers, students, and practitioners, their successes are reflected in the papers contributed to this volume.