Business Process Management [electronic resource] : 5th International Conference, BPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia, September 24-28, 2007. Proceedings / edited by Gustavo Alonso, Peter Dadam, Michael Rosemann.

Business Process Maturity and Performance -- The Process-Oriented Organisation: A Holistic View Developing a Framework for Business Process Orientation Maturity -- Challenges in Business Performance Measurement: The Case of a Corporate IT Function -- On the Performance of Workflow Processes with Distributed Actors: Does Place Matter? -- Business Process Modeling -- What Makes Process Models Understandable? -- Modeling of Task-Based Authorization Constraints in BPMN -- BPMN: How Much Does It Cost? An Incremental Approach -- View-Based Process Visualization -- Case Studies -- BPM on Top of SOA: Experiences from the Financial Industry -- Matching Customer Processes with Business Processes of Banks: The Example of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises as Bank Customers -- Workflow Management Systems + Swarm Intelligence = Dynamic Task Assignment for Emergency Management Applications -- Evaluating Peer-to-Peer for Loosely Coupled Business Collaboration: A Case Study -- Compliance and Change -- Modeling Control Objectives for Business Process Compliance -- Generation of Business Process Models for Object Life Cycle Compliance -- Highly Dynamic Adaptation in Process Management Systems Through Execution Monitoring -- Version Management in the Business Process Change Context -- Process Configuration and Execution -- BPELlight -- An Enactment-Engine Based on Use-Cases -- Requirements-Driven Design and Configuration Management of Business Processes -- SAP WebFlow Made Configurable: Unifying Workflow Templates into a Configurable Model -- Formal Foundations of BPM -- Behavioral Constraints for Services -- Towards Formal Analysis of Artifact-Centric Business Process Models -- Local Enforceability in Interaction Petri Nets -- Modelling with History-Dependent Petri Nets -- Business Process Mining -- Fuzzy Mining – Adaptive Process Simplification Based on Multi-perspective Metrics -- Inducing Declarative Logic-Based Models from Labeled Traces -- Approaching Process Mining with Sequence Clustering: Experiments and Findings -- Process Mining Based on Regions of Languages -- Semantic Issues in BPM -- Extending Representational Analysis: BPMN User and Developer Perspectives -- Semantic Analysis of Flow Patterns in Business Process Modeling -- Towards CIM to PIM Transformation: From Secure Business Processes Defined in BPMN to Use-Cases.

The Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) was held in Brisbane, Australia, September 25–27, 2007, and organized by the BPM Research Group, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology. The present volume includes the papers accepted for presentation at the main conference. The quantity and quality of paper s- missions were again very strong. The papers came from authors located in 41 di?erentcountriesandweregeographicallywelldistributed:75papersoriginated from Europe, 37 from Asia, 17 from the Americas, 18 from Australia, and ?ve from Africa. All paperswerereviewedbyat leastthreereviewersand the selectionprocess was extremely competitive. In total, 152 papers were submitted, of which we selected 21 as full research papers and one as an industry paper leading to an acceptance rate of 14.5%. Furthermore, eight papers were selected as short papers.In addition to these papers, invited keynote presentations weredelivered by Simon Dale, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology O?cer, SAP Asia Paci?c Japan, Steve Tieman, Vice President Est´ ee Lauder Companies, USA, JohnDeebfromOracleAustraliaandShawnBowersfromtheGenomeCenterat University of California, Davis, USA. We are very grateful for the contributions of our invited speakers and for the support of the sponsors that facilitated these keynotes. In particular, we are very appreciative of the tremendous e?orts of the m- bers of the carefully selected Program Committee and the additional reviewers.