The International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) brings together researchers and practitioners and represents one of the most prestigious scientific events on BPM worldwide. The 14th edition of the conference was organized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 18-22, 2016. The venue took place in the Othon Palace Rio Hotel, situated in front of one of the most famous and beautiful beaches in the world (Copacabana Beach), which created a perfect atmosphere. As a novelty with respect to previous BPM Demo track editions, this year all the demonstration proposals submitted had to include a screencast showing the functionality of the tool. The BPM 2016 Demo track received 20 submissions, which were carefully reviewed by an international Program Committee composed of 36 members. Out of them 14 proposals were selected for presentation at the conference. The authors of the accepted demos were given the opportunity to also bring a poster to the demo session in order to attract audience and increase the visibility of their tool. Furthermore, after the conference, they could upload their tool to the BPM Tool Database1. The demo session took place on September 21. Two Demo Teaser sessions were organized simultaneously with conference co↵ ee breaks to advertise the demos that would be presented later. The 14 accepted demos were distributed between the two time slots and the authors of each demo had 2 minutes to briefly describe their tool. The actual Demo session took place in the afternoon and was organized in the same open space where the conference co↵ ee breaks took place, which we believe had a positive influence in the amount of audience attending the session. We are glad that some attendees stayed there until the end of the session, which showed a good acceptance of the track. The attendees could contribute to the selection of the best demo by providing anonymous votes. The BPM 2016 Demo Award was given at the conference banquet together with the other BPM 2016 awards. The tool “PLG2: Multiperspective Process Randomization with Online and O✏ ine Simulations” by Andrea Burattin was selected as the best BPM 2016 demo. We congratulate the author for this achievement! We would like to thank all the authors for their submissions, the members of the Program Committee for their time, their hard work and the timely submission of their reviews, and the organizers of the BPM 2016 conference for their great support, which made this demo track possible.
Demo Chairs Leonardo G. Azevedo Cristina Cabanillas
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil IBM Research Brazil, Brazil
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Program Committee Members Michael Adams Fernanda Araujo Baiao Claudia Cappelli Jorge Cardoso Jan Claes Ra↵ aele Conforti Laurent D’Orazio Gero Decker Remco Dijkman Marcelo Fantinato Marie-Christine Fauvet Juliana Jansen Ferreira Christian Gierds Oliver Kopp Geetika Lakshmanan Henrik Leopold Heiko Ludwig Andrea Magdaleno Cesare Pautasso Artem Polyvyanyy Hajo A. Reijers Stefanie Rinderle-Ma Ant´onio Rito Silva Carlos Rodriguez Anne Rozinat Nick Russell Sherif Sakr Vishal Saxena Stefan Sch¨onig Jianwen Su Roman Vacul´ın Boudewijn Van Dongen Ingo Weber Mathias Weske Karsten Wolf Moe Wynn