Jens Gulden, Selmin Nurcan BPMDS 2017 RADAR in the 18th International Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) Essen, June 12-13, 2017 BPMDS 2017 Radar Proceedings Preface The topics addressed by the BPMDS series, in conjunction with CAiSE (Con- ference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering), are focused on business processes and their IT support. This is one of the keystones of Information Sys- tems theory beyond short-lived fashions. The continued interest in this topic on behalf of the Information Systems community is reflected by the success of the past BPMDS events and by their promotion from a workshop to a working conference. The BPMDS series produced 17 events from 1998 to 2016. From 2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE. The basic principles of the BPMDS series are: 1. BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the areas of business development and business applications (software) develop- ment. 2. The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than presentations. 3. Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers. 4. Each event’s results are, usually, published in a special issue of an interna- tional journal. The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the website: http://www.bpmds.org/. BPMDS RADAR solicits short papers related to business process modeling, development, and support. We invited interested authors to contribute short papers in the two categories “research-in-progress” and “lessons learned”, using a separate call-for-papers especially for short paper submissions. Research-in-progress papers present preliminary results that may not have been fully validated yet. The work presented, however, is advanced enough to show its contribution and significance. In the lessons learned from practice category we welcome all practitioners to share with BPMDS participants and followers their own experiences in the topics related to the BPMDS conference. BPMDS 2017 received 11 short paper submissions from as many countries (Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Malta, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK, and USA), out of which 9 short papers were eventually se- lected. Most of the short papers have been directly submitted to the BPMDS RADAR track. A few from the main conference (2 among the accepted 9) have been re-evaluated “from scratch” by the program committee in their shorter form. Each paper received four reviews from the members of the international program committee. The most important criteria for RADAR papers was the contribution and the significance of the research ideas (research-in-progress) and the added value of the feedback from industrial/practical experience (lessons learned from practice). All short papers were submitted with a maximum length of 8 pages. The final versions published in these proceedings were allowed to be extended to up to 10 pages length. 8 We wish to thank all the people who submitted papers to BPMDS 2017 RADAR for having shared their work with us, as well as the members of the BPMDS 2017 program committee, who made a remarkable effort in reviewing the submissions. We also thank the organizers of CAiSE 2017 for their help with the organization of the event, and IFIP WG8.1 for the support. May 2017 Jens Gulden Selmin Nurcan 9 Organizers Selmin Nurcan Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Jens Gulden University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Ilia Bider Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden Selmin Nurcan Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel Industrial Advisory Board Ilia Bider Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden Pascal Negros Arch4IE, France Gil Regev EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland Industrial Track Chairs Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jens Gulden University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Program Committee João Paulo A. Almeida Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Eric Andonoff Université Toulouse 1, France Judith Barrios Albornoz University of Los Andes, Venezuela Kahina Bessai Loria University of Lorraine, France Ilia Bider Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden Karsten Boehm FH KufsteinTirol - University of Applies Science, Austria Lars Brehm Munich University of Applied Science, Germany Dirk Fahland Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Claude Godart Loria University of Lorraine, France Renata Guizzardi Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil Jens Gulden University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Amin Jalali Stockholm University, Sweden 10 Paul Johannesson Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia Agnes Koschmider Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Marcello La Rosa Queensland University of Technology, Australia Jan Mendling Vienna University of Economics and Business, Aus- tria Michael Moehring Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany Pascal Negros Arch4IE, France Jens Nimis University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany Selmin Nurcan Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Oscar Pastor Lopez Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Elias Pimenidis University of the West of England Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzer- land Manfred Reichert University of Ulm, Germany Hajo Reijers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Iris Reinhartz-Berger University of Haifa, Israel Colette Rolland Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Australia Shazia Sadiq The University of Queensland, Australia Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Stefan Schönig University of Bayreuth, Germany Samira Si-Said Cherfi CEDRIC - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel Roland Ukor FirstLinq Ltd, United Kingdom Barbara Weber Technical University of Denmark Matthias Weidlich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Jelena Zdravkovic Stockholm University, Sweden Alfred Zimmermann Reutlingen University, Germany Additional Reviewers Aa, Han van der Knuplesch, David Andrews, Kevin Schunselaar, Dennis Aysolmaz, Banu Steinau, Sebastian 11