O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christian Stary ist Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik Communications Engineering sowie des Kompetenzzentrum Wissensmanagement an der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Linz. Er ist ausgebildeter Informatiker der TU Wien und war mehrere Jahre in der Privatwirtschaft tätig. Er promovierte 1988 und habilitierte sich 1993 an der TU Wien auf dem Gebiet des Usability Engineering. Darüber hinaus war er an unterschiedlichen Universitäten in den Vereinigten Staaten, Deutschland und Österreich als Assistant bzw. Associate Professor oder Gastprofessor tätig, ehe er 1995 an die Universität Linz berufen wurde. Im Rahmen der Forschung betreut er die Schwerpunkte Advanced Distributed Learning, Organisational Learning und Adaptive Systems.Prof. Dr. Detlef Seese ist Professor für Angewandte Informatik am Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB) des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT).Albert Fleischmann ist Gründer, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender und wissenschaftlicher Berater der Metasonic AG.

Visionary Engagements.- The Relevance of Management of Business Processes and Orchestration.- The Power of 'As-Is' Processes.- The Method behind Subject Orientation - The Missing Link between Individuals and Machines in Regard to Truth.- Establishing an Informed S-BPM Community.- Business Process Management - S-BPM a New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage?.- Application of Subject-Oriented Modeling in Automatic Service Composition.- Essential Capabilities.- What Is S-BPM?.- Case Study: The Process Portal - Process-as-a-Service Central Platform for Work-, Information- and Knowledge Processes in the Company.- Case Study: AST Order Control Processing.- Penetration Perspectives.- Potential Building Blocks of S-BPM.- Quo Vadis, S-BPM? The First World-Café on S-BPM Developments.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the First Workshop on Subject- Oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM ONE). Establishing a multi- and cross-disciplinary interchange of underyling and applied concepts, successful appli- tion studies, and innovative development ideas, the workshop emphasized the pro- tive realization of role- or actor-oriented modeling on the basis of exchanging m- sages when accomplishing tasks. The workshop was organized as a forum for the discussion of foundations, achievements, reflections, and further developments. In this way, its contributions not only addressed the current state of the art, but also the various lines of research and development, either running or planned. The state of the art is reflected in terms of concepts, modeling language, and tool features on the one hand. On the other hand, it is reflected through the discussion of industrial case studies. These indicate the current practice when implementing the subject-oriented BPM paradigm in industrial settings. By challenging conceptual foundations they also allow us to define a common ground for future developments in research and practice. The S-BPM ONE contributions focus on challenges arising from the evolution of service-oriented architectures and the need for more flexible business organizations. The latter require coherent and adaptive representation and processing techniques for business process modeling and execution. Corresponding technologies have to be grounded in theories of computer science, in order to provide an adequate infrastr- ture for thorough BPM including technology-enhanced change management.