Process mining techniques allow for extracting information from event logs, e.g. as generared by operational workflow management systems. It is a field that receives wide attention from the academic BPM community and is increasingly being applied in organizational settings. The Process Mining Wiki at http://www.process-mining.org presents the research done in the context of the ProM framework. The associated software can be downloaded from http://prom.sourceforge.net.

The Global Journal on Flexible Systems Management is soliciting submission to a special issue on Business Process Management: Impact on Organizational Flexibility. Deadline for submissions is January 15th, 2008. Paper proposals can be submitted until September 30th, 2007. More information can be found here.

The Journal on Enterprise Modeling and Information System Architectures is soliciting submissions to a special issue on Process Modeling. Deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2007. More information can be found here.

Welcome to the new website of the Association for Information Systems‘ special interest group on process automation and management (sigpam). After a long-needed overhaul, we hope that this new blog and the associated discussion forum will provide a meeting ground and exchange place for researchers interested in the management and automation of business processes.