Preliminary program; details are subject to change.
The Journal First track at BPM 2026 provides a dedicated forum for researchers to present recently published journal articles related to Business Process Management (BPM). The track gives authors an opportunity to share their research with the international BPM community, while conference participants benefit from exposure to a broad range of recent and high-quality research findings.
Journal First 1
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Room 4
| No. | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Formal semantics for knowledge representation and automated reasoning in BPMN process models | Angelo Casciani, Simone Agostinelli, Yves Lespérance, Andrea Marrella and Sebastian Sardina |
| 2 | A Task Taxonomy for Conformance Checking | Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Michael Grohs, Finn Klessascheck, Lisa-Marie Klein, Tatiana von Landesberger and Luise Pufahl |
| 3 | A Survey on Event Prediction Methods from a Systems Perspective: Bringing Together Disparate Research Areas | Janik-Vasily Benzin and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma |
| 4 | Enhancing next activity prediction in process mining with Retrieval-Augmented Generation | Angelo Casciani, Mario Luca Bernardi, Marta Cimitile and Andrea Marrella |
| 5 | Generating Feasible and Plausible Counterfactual Explanations for Outcome Prediction of Business Processes | Alexander Stevens, Chun Ouyang, Johannes De Smedt and Catarina Pinto Moreira |
| 6 | Outcome-oriented local explanation using context-aware process patterns | Andrei Buliga, Mozhgan Vazifehdoostirani, Laura Genga, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Massimiliano Ronzani, Chiara Ghidini and Remco Dijkman |
| 7 | Monitoring land-centric business processes using remote sensing and satellite data | Vito Chan, Stephan Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Jan Mendling |
Journal First 2
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Room 4
| No. | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generating multiperspective process traces using conditional variational autoencoders | Massimiliano Ronzani, Riccardo Graziosi, Andrei Buliga, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Francesco Folino, Chiara Ghidini, Francesca Meneghello and Luigi Pontieri |
| 2 | Automated decision-making for dynamic task assignment at scale | Riccardo Lo Bianco, Remco Dijkman, Willem van Jaarsveld, Jeroen Middelhuis and Luca Begnardi |
| 3 | Graph-based similarity measures for the structural comparison of process traces | Clemens Schreiber, Amine Abbad-Andaloussi, Andrea Burattin, Andreas Oberweis and Barbara Weber |
| 4 | BEST: a unified business process enactment via streams and tables for service computing | Ahmed Awad, Feras Awaysheh and Hugo A. López |
| 5 | Resource allocation in business process executions—A systematic literature study | Luise Pufahl, Fabian Stiehle, Mathias Weske and Ingo Weber |
| 6 | From analysis to findings: How do process mining analysts discover results? | Francesca Zerbato, Lisa Zimmermann, Katerina Vrotsou and Barbara Weber |
| 7 | Leveraging Workarounds for a Problem-Focused Improvement of Business Processes | Nesi Outmazgin, Pnina Soffer and Irit Hadar |
| 8 | Improving organizational processes in healthcare through simulation-driven resource allocation: Methodology and real-world case study | Francesco Vinci, Davide Aloini, Elisabetta Benevento, Alessandro Stefanini, Francesca Zen and Massimiliano de Leoni |
Journal First 3
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Room 2
| No. | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto | Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Marlon Dumas, Fabiana Fournier, Timotheus Kampik, Emanuele La Malfa, Lior Limonad, Andrea Marrella, Andreas Metzger, Marco Montali, Daniel Amyot, Peter Fettke, Artem Polyvyanyy, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Sebastian Sardina, Niek Tax and Barbara Weber |
| 2 | Large Language Models for Process Knowledge Acquisition: Designing and Evaluating a Multi-agent System | Malik Schinckus, Anthony Simonofski and Nicolas Bono Rossello |
| 3 | A Human-in-Control Model: Taking the Helm in Navigating AI Delegation | Rania Afiouni and Alain Pinsonneault |
| 4 | Extracting declarative constraints for process modeling from natural language descriptions with large language models | Gyunam Park, Julian Kofferath and Minsu Cho |
| 5 | Object-centric process management: A research manifesto | Anjo Seidel, Mathias Weske, Marco Montali, Andrey Rivkin, Jan Martijn van der Werf, Manfred Reichert, Wil van der Aalst, Marius Breitmayer, Lukas Liss, Jan Niklas van Detten, Amin Jalali, Shahrzad Khayatbashi, Maximilian König, Tom Lichtenstein, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber, Pnina Soffer, Lorenzo Rossi, Daniel Calegari Garcia, Andrea Delgado, Remco Dijkman, Sarah Winkler, Matthias Weidlich, Sander J.J. Leemans, Dirk Fahland, Ava Swevels, Monique Snoeck, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Alessandro Gianola, Avigdor Gal, Ekkart Kindler, Irina Lomazova, Barbara Re, Giovanni Meroni, Andrea Morichetta, Alessandro Marcelletti, Sara Pettinari, Boudewijn van Dongen, Johannes De Smedt, Majid Rafiei, Julius Köpke, Thomas Hildebrandt, Francesca Zerbato, Luise Pufahl, Hajo Reijers, Artem Polyvyanyy, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Oscar Pastor, Stephan Haarmann, Henderik Proper, Xixi Lu, Hugo A. López, Tijs Slaats, Jochen De Weerdt, Massimiliano de Leoni, Niels Martin, Karolin Winter, Nick van Beest, Orlenys López-Pintado, Sebastiaan van Zelst, Chiara Ghidini and Arik Senderovich |
| 6 | Artificial intelligence in conformance checking: state of the art and research agenda | Laura Genga and Karolin Winter |