The topics addressed by the BPMDS series are focused on IT support for business processes. This is one of the keystones of Information Systems theory. We strongly believe that any major conference in the area of Information Systems needs to address such topics independently of the current fashion. The continued interest in these topics on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the success of the last BPMDS workshops and the promotion of BPMDS to a working conference.

The BPMDS series has produced twelve events from 1998 to 2011. From 2011, BPMDS has become a two-day working conference attached to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). The basic principles of the BPMDS series:

BPMDS serves as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the areas of
business development, and business applications (software) development

The aim of the event is mainly discussions, rather than presentations.

Each event has a theme that is mandatory for idea papers.

Each event's results are, usually, published in a special issue of an international journal.

The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the web site: http://www.ibissoft.se/bpmds.html