These proceedings contain the final versions of papers accepted for the workshops
that were held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Business
Process Management (BPM 2007) that took place in Brisbane, Australia.
Twenty workshop proposals were submitted for this conference of which seven
were selected. Ultimately this resulted in six workshops that ran concurrently
on September 24 2007. This was the third year running for BPM workshops, a
testament 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 also
included two new emerging areas that have gained increased attention: “Collaborative
Business Processes”—a topic which explores the challenges in seamless
integration of and collaboration between business processes from different
organizations, and “Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare”—a
topic which recognizes the importance of patient-centered process support in
healthcare and looks into the potential benefits and limitations of IT support
for healthcare processes. The “Reference Modeling” workshop covered languages
for reference modelling, evaluation and adaptation of reference models, and applications
of such models. Finally, the “Advances in Semantics for Web Services”
workshop considered some of the latest research efforts in the field of Semantic
Web services including relevant tools and techniques and real-world applications
of such services.