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 Database 1 .
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.
Stefan Schönig Jianwen Su Roman Vaculín Boudewijn Van Dongen Ingo Weber Mathias Weske Karsten Wolf Moe Wynn Queensland University of Technology, Australia UNIRIO, Brazil UNIRIO. Brazil University of Coimbra, Portugal Ghent University, Belgium Queensland University of Technology, Australia UBP, France Signavio, Germany Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands University of So Paulo (USP), Brazil Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, France PUC-RIO, Brazil Carmeq GmbH, Germany IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Germany IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands IBM Research, USA Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil University of Lugano, Switzerland Queensland University of Technology, Australia Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands University of Vienna, Austria IST/INESC-ID, Portugal University of Trento, Italy Fluxicon, Netherlands Queensland University of Technology, Australia The University of New South Wales, Australia Roubroo, USA University of Bayreuth, Germany University of California at Santa Barbara, USA IBM Research, USA Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands NICTA, Australia HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany Universität Rostock, Germany Queensland University of Technology, Australia