Business Process Management (BPM) allows to study the set of methods and technologies aimed to discover, model, analyse, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes.

It is a scientific field and an industry practice that has significantly matured and diffused in the last decade being recognized as a huge challenge in most organizations while it increases organization’s value through a process-oriented culture.

However, BPM methodologies in the last years are required to adapt to the always more dynamic nature of the modern business environment characterized by an increasingly wide range of process variations to answer to the continuous market changes.

According to this, researchers and practitioners focus their studies to find new solutions to support business processes management in evolving and dynamic environments.

These studies have also an interdisciplinary nature, while they regard not only information technology, organizational management and industrial engineering but also other disciplines such as behavioural science, big data, operations management, social computing, cloud computing, theory of processes and many more.

The objective of this special session is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent research trends and applications of Business Process Management in evolving and adaptive environments and to offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify and discuss new promising research directions in this challenging scenario.

Pasquale Ardimento, University of Bari, Italy

Mario Luca Bernardi, Giustino Fortunato University, Italy

Marta Cimitile, Unitelma Sapienza University, Italy