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Introduction
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The Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management 2015 (APBPM 2015) is the third Edition of the reference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. It aims to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, the conference committee welcomes submissions on relevant topics from all over the world. A key objective of the conference is to set up a bridge between actual industrial requirements and leading edge research outcomes in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Conference Topics
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The topics for both research and industry papers include, but are not limited to:

Process Design & Modeling
- Process modeling languages
- Process modeling notations
- Process model repositories
- Process patterns
- Process reference models
- Process configuration
- Process model change and evolution

Process Management & Execution
- Business process monitoring
- Adaptive process control
- Process-driven performance management
- Process diagnosis
- Optimized execution of business processes
- Context-aware process management

BPM system design & development
- BPM system architectures and platforms
- Service oriented architectures for BPM
- Open-source BPM
- Mobile and social BPM
- Cloud computing and BPM

Process Mining & Business Process Intelligence
- Process knowledge discovery
- Business Intelligence for business processes
- Log analytics in Internet of Things (IoT) environments
- Social network analysis from event log
- Operational intelligence using process mining techniques
- Complex event processing
- Process data analytics and visualization

Domain-specific BPM
- Business process improvement
- Data-driven processes
- Big data in BPM
- Decision science and BPM
- Supply Chain Processes
- Logistics process management
- Data mining for Business Processes
- Experience reports from BPM implementations within the Asia-Pacific region
- Case studies carried out within the Asia-Pacific region (BPM in logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, etc.)

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Publications
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All accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. A selection of papers accepted for and presented at APBPM 2015 will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Application and Practice (IJIETAP), which is indexed by SCIE, EI/Compendex, etc.
(http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/)

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Key Dates
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* Abstract submission: February 16, 2015
* Full papers submission: February 23, 2015
* Notifications: March 16, 2015
* Camera ready papers: March 30, 2015

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Organizations
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General Chair
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea

Steering Committee
Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea
Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Program Co-Chairs
Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Suriadi Suriadi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China

Organization Chair
Minseok Song, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea

Publicity Chairs
Raffaele Conforti, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Zaiwen Feng, Wuhan University, China
Bernardo Nugroho Yahya, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

Inquiries regarding this call for papers may be addressed to bernardo (at) hufs.ac.kr