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 submissions
were again very strong. The papers came from authors located in 41
different countries and were geographically well distributed: 75 papers originated
from Europe, 37 from Asia, 17 from the Americas, 18 from Australia, and five
from Africa.
All papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers and the selection process
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 were delivered
by Simon Dale, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAP Asia
Pacific Japan, Steve Tieman, Vice President Est´ee Lauder Companies, USA,
John Deeb from Oracle Australia and Shawn Bowers from the Genome Center at
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.