Introduction to the 1st International Workshop on Business Process Innovation with Artificial Intelligence (BPAI 2017)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is receiving high interest from academics, business professionals, and media. It is considered as the next disruptive technology that will significantly impact the workplace and change, innovate, and automate a manifold of business activities. The goal of the workshop was to foster the exchange between AI and Business Process Management (BPM) by taking a closer look at how BPM inspires novel application domains for AI, as well as at how BPM and related fields can benefit from AI solutions. Six full and four short papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. They stimulated an interesting discussion on potential future synergies between the two disciplines.