Conferences on Business Process Management

Awards

BPM 2019, Vienna, Austria

• BPM test-of-time award (BPM 2009 and BPM 2010)
  • Remco M. Dijkman, Marlon Dumas, Luciano Garcia-Banuelos; Graph Matching Algorithms for Business Process Model Similarity Search
  • Runner-up: Dirk Fahland, Cedric Favre, Barbara Jobstmann, Jana Koehler, Niels Lohmann, Hagen Völzer, Karsten Wolf: Instantaneous Soundness Checking of Industrial Business Process Models
• Best paper award
  • Sara Houhou, Souheib Baarir, Pascal Poizat and Philippe Quéinnec: A First-Order Logic Semantics for Communication-Parametric BPMN Collaborations
  • Runners-up
    • Martin Bauer, Han van der Aa and Matthias Weidlich: Estimating Process Conformance by Trace Sampling and Result Approximation
    • Michael Rosemann: Trust-aware Process Design
• Best student paper award
  • Aygun Shafagatova and Amy Van Looy: Understanding the Alignment of Employee Appraisals and Rewards with Business Processes
  • Runners-up
    • Leandro Nahabedian, Victor Braberman, Nicolás D’Ippolito, Jeff Kramer and Sebastian Uchitel: Dynamic Reconfiguration of Business Processes
    • Ghalia Tello, Gabriele Gianini, Rabeb Mizouni and Ernesto Damiani: Machine Learning-Based Framework for Log-Lifting in Business Process Mining Applications
• Best reviewer awards
  • Søren Debois
  • Monika Malinova Mandelburger
  • Jorge Munoz-Gama
• Best dissertation award
  • Irene Teinemaa: Predictive and Prescriptive Monitoring of Business Process Outcomes
  • Runner-up: Ilya Verenich: Explainable Predictive Monitoring of Temporal Measures of Business Processes
• Best demo award
  • Remco Dijkman, Sander Peters: The Business Process Management Game
• Business Process Innovation Awards (Industry Forum)
  • Andreas Metzger, Johannes Franke, Thomas Jansen: Data-driven Deep Learning for Proactive Terminal Process Management
  • Stefan Schönig, Andreas Erner, Michael Market, Stefan Jablonski: Sensor-enabled Wearable Process Support in Corrugation Industry
  • Joos C. A. M. Buijs, Rick F. M. Bergmans, Rachied El Hasnaoui: Customer journey analysis at a financial services provider using self service and data hub concepts
• Awards of co-located events
  • Best Blockchain Forum Paper Award 2019
    • Christopher Klinkmüller, Alexander Ponomarev, An Binh Tran, Ingo Weber and Wil van der Aalst Mining Blockchain Processes: Extracting Process Mining Data from Blockchain Applications
  • Best Central Eastern European Forum Paper Award 2019
    • Gregor Polancic, Pavlo Brin, Saša Kuhar, Gregor Jošt and Jernej Huber An Empirical Investigation of the Cultural Impacts on the Business Process Concepts Representations

BPM 2018, Sydney, Australia

• Best paper award
  • Elisa Marengo, Werner Nutt and Matthias Perktold: Construction Process Modeling: Representing Activities, Items and their Interplay
• Further best paper award nominees
  • Vincent Bloemen, Sebastiaan van Zelst, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Boudewijn van Dongen and Jaco van de Pol: Maximizing Synchronization for Aligning Observed and Modelled Behaviour
  • Amy Van Looy: On The Synergies Between Business Process Management and Digital Innovation.
• Best student paper award
  • Vincent Bloemen, Sebastiaan van Zelst, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Boudewijn van Dongen and Jaco van de Pol: Maximizing Synchronization for Aligning Observed and Modelled Behaviour
• Best reviewer award: Rick Hull
• Best dissertation award
  • Sander Leemans: Robust process mining with guarantees
  • Runners-up
    • Luise Pufahl: Modeling and Executing Batch Activities in Business Processes
    • Han van der Aa: Comparing and Aligning Process Representations

BPM 2017, Barcelona, Spain

• Best paper award
  • Arik Senderovich, Matthias Weidlich and Avigdor Gal: Temporal Network Representation of Event Logs for Improved Performance Modelling in Business Processes
• Best student paper award
  • Florian Richter (with Thomas Seidl): TESSERACT: Time-drifts in Event Streams using Series of Evolving Rolling Averages of Completion Times
• Best reviewer award: Ekkart Kindler
• Best dissertation award
  • Arik Senderovich: Queue Mining: Service Perspectives in Process Mining
  • Runners-up
    • Johannes De Smedt: Studies on Declarative Process Modeling and Its Relation to Procedural Techniques
    • Monika Malinova: A language for designing process maps
• Test of time award
  • Shazia Sadiq, Guido Governatori & Kioumars Namiri: Modeling Control Objectives for Business Process Compliance
  • Runner-up: Jussi Vanhatalo, Hagen Völzer & Jana Koehler: The Refined Process Structure Tree

BPM 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Best paper award
  • Diego Calvanese, Marlon Dumas, Ülari Laurson, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Marco Montali and Irene Teinemaa: Semantics and Analysisnof DMN Decision Tables
• Best student paper award
  • Felix Mannhardt (with Massimiliano de Leoni, Wil van der Aalst, Hajo Reijers and Pieter Toussaint): From Low-Level Events to Activities - A Pattern-based Approach
• Best reviewer award: Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad

BPM 2015, Innsbruck, Austria

• Best paper award
  • Claudio Di Ciccio, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Marco Montali and Jan Mendling: Ensuring Model Consistency in Declarative Process Discovery
• Best student paper award
  • Qinlong Guo (with Lijie Wen, Jianmin Wang, Zhiqiang Yan and Philip S. Yu): Mining invisible tasks in non-free-choice constructs
• Best reviewer award: Ingo Weber
• Test of time award
  • Alistair Barros, Marlon Dumas and Arthur ter Hofstede: Service Interaction Patterns
  • Runner-up: Sebastian Hinz, Karsten Wolf and Christian Stahl: Transforming BPEL to Petri Nets

BPM 2014, Tallinn, Estonia

• Best paper award
  • Massimiliano de Leoni, Wil van der Aalst and Marcus Dees: A General Framework for Correlating Business Process Characteristics
• Best student paper award
  • Abel Armas-Cervantes (with Paolo Baldan, Marlon Dumas and Luciano García-Bañuelos): Behavioral Comparison of Process Models Based on Canonically Reduced Event Structures
• Best reviewer award: Michael Westerggard

BPM 2013, Beijing, China

• Best paper award
  • Chathura C. Ekanayake, Marlon Dumas, Luciano García-Bañuelos , and Marcello La Rosa: Slice, Mine and Dice: Complexity-Aware automated Discovery of Business Process Models
• Best student paper award
  • Jorge Munoz-Gama (with Josep Carmona and Wil M.P. van der Aalst): Conformance Checking in the Large: Partitioning and Topology
• Best reviewer award: Rafael Accorsi
• Test of time award
  • Stefanie Rinderle , Manfred Reichert & Peter Dadam: Evaluation of Correctness Criteria for Dynamic Workflow Changes (2003)
  • Runner-up: Ekkart Kindler: On the Semantics of EPCs: A Framework for Resolving the Vicious Circle (2004)

BPM 2012, Tallinn, Estonia

• Best paper award
  • not awarded this year
• Best student paper award
  • not awarded this year
• Best reviewer award: Matthias Weidlich

BPM 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France

• Best paper award
  • Dirk Fahland, Wil M. P. van der Aalst: Simplifying Mined Process Models: An Approach Based on Unfoldings
• Best student paper award
  • not awarded this year
• Best reviewer award: Niels Lohmann

BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA

• Best paper award
  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Luciano García-Bañuelos and Marlon Dumas: Structuring Acyclic Process Models
• Best student paper award
  • Jagadeesh Chandra Bose Rantham Prabhakara (with Wil M. P van der Aalst): Trace Alignment in Process Mining: Opportunities for Process Diagnostics
• Best reviewer award: Bela Mutschler & Ekkart Kindler

BPM 2009, Ulm, Germany

• Best paper award
  • Kais Klai, Samir Tata and Jörg Desel: Symbolic abstraction and deadlock freeness verification of inter-enterprise processes
• Best student paper award
  • Mathias Fritzsche, Michael Picht, Wasif Gilani, Ivor Spence, John Brown and Peter Kilpatrick: Extending BPM Environments of your choice with performance related Decision Support