Introduction to the Fourth International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2008)

Abstract

Business Process Intelligence (BPI) is quickly gaining interest and importance in research and industry. BPI refers to the application of various measurement and analysis techniques in the area of business process management. In practice, BPI is embodied in tools for managing process execution quality by offering several features such as analysis, prediction, monitoring, control, and optimization. The goal of this workshop is to provide a better understanding and a more appropriate support of a company’s processes at design time and the way they are handled at runtime.We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities such as business process management, information systems research, business administration, software engineering, artificial intelligence, operations research, and data mining who share an interest in the analysis of business processes and process-aware information systems. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research, sharing practical experiences, and setting research directions to meet real needs in this emerging field.