Preliminary program; details are subject to change.
The Main Track Program at BPM 2026 features peer-reviewed research presentations that represent the forefront of Business Process Management. The program highlights original contributions spanning foundational theories, engineering innovations, and management perspectives, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the BPM community.
Sessions cover a broad range of topics, including process mining, process intelligence, AI-enabled BPM, business process modeling and automation, process analytics, digital transformation, process optimization, organizational and socio-technical aspects of BPM, and emerging technologies that shape the future of process management.
Main Track 1
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 BRIDGE: A Bayes-Risk-Informed Process Decoder for Suffix Prediction Xiaomeng He, Johannes De Smedt, Seppe Vanden Broucke and Jochen De Weerdt 2 Compiling Constraint Knowledge into Prescriptive Process Analytics via Neuro-symbolic Outcome Distillation Gyunam Park 3 Fairness in Prescriptive Process Analytics: Integrating Fairness Constraints into the Learning Phase Fabrizio De Santis, Alessandro Padella, Gyunam Park, Francesco Zanichelli and Massimiliano de Leoni 4 DIFF-ERO: A Loss Function for Deep Learning Approaches in Process Mining Johannes De Smedt, Jari Peeperkorn, Artem Polyvyanyy and Jochen De Weerdt 5 Efficient Event Sequence Predictions by Leveraging Event Context Clustering Simon Rauch, Daniel Schuster, Gabriel Marques Tavares and Thomas Seidl 6 Continuity Matters: Improving Predictive Process Monitoring based on Path Coherence Maximilian Vouk, Thomas Grisold, Kate Revoredo and Jan Mendling
Main Track 2
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 Footprint-Based Conformance Checking for Object-Centric Process Trees Jan Niklas van Detten, Christian Rennert, Aaron Küsters, Wil M.P. van der Aalst and Sander J.J. Leemans 2 Agentic Business Process Modeling: Co-Creating Business Processes with Human-Centric AI Agents Seyyid A. Ciftci and Christian Janiesch 3 Temporal Object-Centric Event Data: A Property-Graph-Based Model with Consistency Constraints Ava Swevels, Marco Montali, Francesca Zerbato and Dirk Fahland 4 Respecting Object Relationships: An Object-Centric Sampling Algorithm Frederik Fonger and Agnes Koschmider 5 Agent Behavior Mining: Generative AI Agent Governance in Business Processes Hoang Vu, Maximilian Körner, Adrian Rebmann, Gabriel Kevorkian, Michael Perscheid, Gregor Berg and Timotheus Kampik 6 On Time, Events, Objects, and Relations in Object-Centric Event Data Ava Swevels, Marco Montali, Francesca Zerbato and Dirk Fahland
Main Track 3
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 Cognitive Effects of Using LLMs for Process Modeling: An EEG Study Neal Wessling, Carl Corea, Elisabeth L'Orange, Mohammad Hossein Yamani and Patrick Delfmann 2 Characterizing Process Variants with Natural Examples Carlos Capitán-Agudo, Claudio Di Ciccio, Cristina Cabanillas and Manuel Resinas 3 Semi-Automated vs. Manual Process Model Generation: A Comparative Study of the Process of Process Modeling Maximilian Möller, Luca Franziska Hörner and Manfred Reichert 4 Guiding Process Harmonization: A Classification Scheme for Differences between BPMN Models Matthias Biermanns, Adrian Rebmann and Jana-Rebecca Rehse 5 Heuristic Work Crafting: A BPM-inspired Approach to Individual Process Redesign Iris Beerepoot, Inge van de Weerd, Thomas Martens, Maria Peeters and Hajo A. Reijers 6 Customizable Declarative Process Specification Scenarios via Automated Planning Alessandra Giovannetti, Giacomo Acitelli, Angelo Casciani, Claudio Di Ciccio and Andrea Marrella 7 What do Process Embeddings Learn? A Probing Investigation Franziska Köllschen, Michael Grohs and Jana-Rebecca Rehse 8 Towards an OR-Join Semantics that Meets Expectations Andreas V. Hense and Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Main Track 4
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 Online Resource-Aware Process Configuration with Uncertain Arrivals and Stochastic Resource Consumption Janik Bürgermeister, Felix Schumann, Martin Bichler and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma 2 Exact Language Computation for Stochastic Process Trees via Discrete-Time Markov Chain Construction András Horváth, Paolo Ballarini and Pierre Cry 3 Collaborative Model Optimization in Federated Stochastic Process Discovery Hootan Zhian, Rajkumar Buyya and Artem Polyvyanyy 4 Trust No Pool: Formal Security Analysis of BPMN Collaborations Martin Farkas and Imre Kocsis 5 HyProTwin: Hybrid Digital Process Twins for Predictive Simulation of Continuous Processes Janik-Vasily Benzin, Dominik Voigt, Juergen Mangler and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma 6 From Global Policies to Local Strategies: Multi-Objective Optimization of Resource-Specific Handover Policies Lukas Kirchdorfer, Artemis Doumeni, Han van der Aa and Hugo A. López
Main Track 5
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 AI-Assisted Event Log Generation for Process Mining in Healthcare Saimir Bala, Zeinab Soleimani and Mathias Weske 2 Learning Joint Event Attribute Distributions for Realistic Event Log Generation Nikolaos Perdikogiannis, Renata Medeiros de Carvalho and Marwan Hassani 3 All Eyes on the Workflow: Automated and Efficient Event Discovery from Video Streams Marco Pegoraro, Jonas Seng, Dustin Heller, Wil van der Aalst and Kristian Kersting 4 Identifying Order Processing Types for Circular Production Tim Hommen, Michael Riesener and Benedict Janssen 5 A Case Study into Factors of Intelligent Process Automation in Audit Dries Jarijch, Mieke Jans and Jan Mendling
Main Track 6
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 SCOPE: Sequential Causal Optimization of Process Interventions Jakob De Moor, Hans Weytjens, Johannes De Smedt and Jochen De Weerdt 2 Validity Criteria for Explaining Variation in Process Complexity Lennart Ebert, Kate Revoredo, Jan Mendling and Benoît Depaire 3 Modeling Analytic Provenance in Process Mining Francesca Zerbato and Dirk Fahland 4 Toward Automated Ticket Escalation in Customer Support Processes: From Emails to Explainable Predictions Berat Furkan Kocak and Gyunam Park 5 The Process Canvas Michael Rosemann, Oktay Türetken and Christoph Buck
Main Track 7
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 1
No. Paper Title Authors 1 Process Routing and Decision Driver Discovery from Relational Databases Without Prior Event Logs Joel Lim, Kar Way Tan and Hoong Chuin Lau 2 Mind the Long Tail: Understanding the Difficulty of Delay Detection in Business Processes Keyvan Amiri Elyasi, Lukas Kirchdorfer and Heiner Stuckenschmidt 3 Discovering Shared-Action Routines from Interleaved Executions for Robotic Process Automation Massimiliano de Leoni and Faizan Ahmed Khan 4 Towards Agent-Based Automation Beyond RPA: An Exploratory Design Science Study in the Public Sector Zeping Wang, Roy Jing Yang, Chun Ouyang and Rehan Syed 5 Developing RPA UI Interaction Patterns to Guide Bot Design Dries Jarijch, Mieke Jans and Jan Mendling 6 Linear Continuous Process Maps Hagen Voelzer, Moritz Fässler, Aaron Kurz and Barbara Weber
