Introduction to the joint international BPM 2017 workshops on theory and application of visualizations and human-centric aspects in processes (TAProViz’17), process querying (PQ’17) and process engineering (IWPE’17)

Visualizations can make the structure and dependencies be- tween elements in processes accessible in order to support users who need to analyze process models and their instances. However, effectively visualizing processes in a user-friendly way is often a big challenge, especially for complex process models, which can consist of hundreds of process components (e.g., process activities, data flows, and resources) and thousands of running process instances in different execution states. Many challenges remain to be addressed within the broad area of process visualization, human interaction and user led design such as: scalability, human-computer interaction, cognitive aspects, applicability of different approaches, collaboration, process evolution, run-time requirements of process instances and applications, user-engagement etc. The TAProViz workshop seeks to develop an international forum of quality to present and discuss research in this field. Three papers from four submissions were accepted for publication. The papers fostered a lively discussion about the place of visualisation within the BPM research and practice community.