The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has seen a huge uptake in
both academia and industry over the past years. It is seen by many as the de
facto standard for business process modeling and has become very popular with
business analysts, tool vendors and end users. As of version 2.0, the BPMN
contains a comprehensive set of concepts and notational elements, as well as an
execution semantics, an interchange format and a mapping to the Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL). This enables it to be used for many different
purposes, such as business process modeling and the development of tools for
workflow enactment or simulation.
The BPMN 2011 workshop was the third workshop in the BPMN workshop
series and was held in Lucerne, Switzerland, at the University of Applied Sciences
and Arts. The workshop lasted two days and consisted of both a scientific and a
practitioner event. These proceedings contain the papers that were presented at
the workshop. They contain eight full research papers that were selected from
20 submissions. In addition, the proceedings contain ten short papers; five of
these were submitted as short papers and five were submitted as full papers
and accepted as short papers after reviewing. The workshop had a thorough
reviewing process, during which each paper was reviewed by three Program
Committee members.
We would like to use this opportunity to thank everyone involved in making
the workshop a success. We would like to thank the authors who submitted
their valuable work to the workshop. Clearly, the workshop would not have been
possible without them. We would also like to thank the developers of EasyChair,
whose system was a great help in the preparation of the proceedings. Finally,
we would like to thank the people who were involved in the organization of
the workshop: the Program Committee members, the additional reviewers and
the local Organizing Committee members. We appreciate all your continued
involvement and support.