Business Process Management has been evolving as a research discipline for more than a decade and a multitude of innovative concepts, methods and techniques have been proposed, e.g., related to the modeling, enactment, change, and mining of business processes. Regarding process-aware information systems, however, there often exists a gap between the digitalized workflows and the real-world business processes. In particular, digital workflows are often not well aligned with real-world objects. This keynote speech will reflect on this gap, discuss emerging challenges along real-world scenarios (e.g., Industry 4.0), and present selected technologies relevant in this context. Making digital worfklows real-world aware will provide new prospects for future BPM research.

Regard the corresponding publication available at:
ai.wu.ac.at/rw-bpms2016/