1. BPM 2014 A word from the program chairs
Dear Pnina, Avi, Shazia, and Hagen,
As indicated before, we are glad that you can join (a) the first part of the SC meeting from (Tuesday evening September 9th, 2014) about BPM 2014 and (b) the SC dinner later that night.
The meeting will be in the Zwarte Doos, Room ZD 1.04 (first floor, above Tuesday's BPM reception), see the program for directions.
For the SC meeting from , it would be great if you could prepare some slides reporting on this year's conference (10 minutes presentation of facts and figures). Let us focus on the scientific program. We as SC are particularly interested in the distribution over the different topic areas.
·         How did this this function?
·         How many (accepted) papers per area?
·         Was the reviewing process OK? Odd case, etc.
·         Etc.
In the SC meeting we have several guests. Therefore, we need to stick to the times indicated.
The SC dinner will start around Yokohama (Stationsplein 11, opposite train station, The chairs of BPM 2015 have also been invited for this.
Looking forward to welcome you in Eindhoven.
Cheers, Wil.

2. What’s on the program? Two keynotes 11 Paper sessions
Rob High: The Emerging Era of Cognitive Computing
Keith Swenson: Questions for a learning organization
11 Paper sessions
User Centered Process Approaches
Process Enabled Environments
Discovery and Monitoring
Process Discovery
Industry Session
Integrative BPM
Process Analytics
Resource and Time Management in BPM
Declarative Processes
Tutorial: Flexible Business Process Modelling via Dynamic Condition Response Graphs
18 demos

3. Submission statistics
Paper submissions
123 (151 abstracts)
Full papers accepted 21
(Full papers) Acceptance Rate
0.17
Short papers accepted 10
Normalized Acceptance Rate
0.21

4. Geographic distribution
country
authors
Submitted papers
accepted
acceptance rate
Germany 77
30.85
9.35
0.3
Brazil 25 9 1
0.11
United States 17
8.5
0.12
India
6.83
0.67
0.1
Australia 16
5.73
1.37
0.24
Netherlands
5.63
1.83
0.33
Austria 13
5.38
2.88
0.54
Italy 20
5.22
2.05
0.39
Belgium 8 5
0.2
China 11
4.67
Spain 15
4.15
2.9
0.7
Czech Republic 4
Israel
3.75
0.75
France 10
0.5
0.13
Denmark 7
3.33
1.33
0.4
Russian Fed.
2.75
Estonia
2.62
2.12
0.81
Canada 2
Japan 3
United Kingdom
1.58
1.25
0.79
Submitted papers
Accepted papers

5. Topics distribution
Each submission classified to two or more topics (author’s selection)
topic
submissions
accepted
acceptance rate
Process model management 16 2
0.12
Human-centric BPM 17 5
0.29
Non-traditional BPM scenarios 21 4
0.19
Process architectures and platforms 24
0.21
Process flexibility and evolution 25 6
0.24
Management issues and empirical studies 26
0.23
Management of process execution data 31 13
0.42
Process modeling and theory 50 8
0.16

6. And later today: Opening (Blauwe Zaal)
Keynote: Rob High The Emerging Era of Cognitive Computing
Morning Tea / Coffee
Session 1: User Centred Process Approaches (Blauwe Zaal) 
Lunch
Blauwe Zaal
Session 2: Discovery and Monitoring (Short Papers) 
Auditorium 7
Session 3: Process Enabled Environments (Short Papers)
Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 4: Process Discovery (Blauwe Zaal)
Welcome Reception in the Zwarte Doos

7. We wish you a great conference!!