The 17th International Conference on Business Process Management provided a forum
for researchers and practitioners in the broad and diverse field of business process
management (BPM). To accommodate for the diversity of the field, the BPM conference hosted tracks for foundations, engineering, and management. These tracks
cover not only different phenomena of interest and research methods, but also ask for
different evaluation criteria. Each track had a dedicated track chair and Program
Committee. The track chairs, together with a consolidation chair, were responsible for
the scientific program.
BPM 2019 was organized by Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and
Business (WU Vienna), and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna. The conference was held in Vienna, Austria, on the WU Campus during September 1–6, 2019.
The conference received 157 full paper submissions, well-distributed over the
tracks, from which 115 went for review. Each paper was reviewed by at least three
Program Committee members and a senior Program Committee member who initiated
and moderated scientific discussions and reflected these in an additional meta-review.
We accepted 23 excellent papers in the main conference (acceptance rate 20%).
Moreover, 13 submissions appeared in the BPM Forum, published in a separate volume
of the Springer LNBIP series.