BPM-D 2026
BPM 2026 Best Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration & Resources Forum

Table of Contents

• Preface

Dissertation Award

• Knowledge-Aware Process Mining: Conceptual Foundations and IT Artifacts for Process Mining in Knowledge-Intensive Processes (Extended Abstract) 1-5
  Katharina Brennig
• Exploring Counterfactual Explanations with Temporal and Process Contexts in Predictive Process Monitoring (Extended Abstract) 6-10
  Andrei Buliga
• Towards User-Centered Prescriptive Process Monitoring Systems (Extended Abstract) 11-15
  Kateryna Kubrak
• On the Analysis of Structural Process Variety (Extended Abstract) 16-20
  Clemens Schreiber

Doctoral Consortium

• A Better Workday: Actor-Centric Business Process Management 21-27
  Kelly Kurowski
• Analyzing Continuous Process Dynamics for Comprehensive Process Mining 28-34
  Sana Dodangeh
• Between Automation and Augmentation: Utilizing Business Process Management to Ensure Operational Support 35-42
  Alexander Skolik
• By-Design Approach for Business Process Compliance through AI 43-49
  Sara Giovannetti
• Combining Object Type Level and Workflow Level Object-Centric Process Models 50-56
  Lukas Liss
• Generative AI Agent Governance in Business Processes 57-63
  Hoang Vu
• How Resilience Emerges and Evolves in Business Process Management Systems: A Process Theory of Disruption, Recovery, and Learning 64-68
  Michael D. Barg
• Improving Time-related Predictions in Predictive Process Monitoring Through Contextual Feature Engineering 69-75
  Maximilian Vouk
• Investigating the Value of Predictive Process Monitoring in Manufacturing Supply Chains 76-82
  Thanh Phan
• Mining For Meaning: Formalization and Implementation of Ontology-Driven Process Mining 83-89
  Riley Moher
• Multi-Dimensional Decision Mining: Discovering Decision Rules in Object-Centric Event Logs 90-96
  Erfan Elhami
• Process Mining by Design for Low-Code Application Platform 97-103
  Cassio Alexandre Pereira de Castro
• Understanding and Improving Directly-Follows Graphs: The Cognitive Perspective 104-110
  Marie-Christin Häge
• Understanding Process Dynamics in Digitized Processes: Foundational Methods and Theory Development 111-117
  Lennart Ebert

Demonstration and Resources Forum

• A Modeling Tool for Object-Centric Petri Net Variants 118-122
  Maximilian König, Nils Schmitt, Mathias Weske
• A Web-Based Tool for Diagramed Model Query 123-127
  Sabine Nagel, Carl Corea, Patrick Delfmann
• AutoBPMN.AI Execution Modeller: Bring Processes to Life with Conversational Process Execution 128-132
  Nataliia Klievtsova, Juergen Mangler, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
• BPMNLearn and Grade: Enabling Automated Grading of BPMN Models 133-137
  Erik Tolboom, Karolin Winter, Laura Genga
• BPM-Tutor: A Conversational, AI-based Learning Platform for BPMN Modeling Education 138-142
  Seyyid A. Ciftci, Roman Geist, Christian Janiesch
• Debugging Interactions between LLMs and Users in Conversational Process Modeling 143-147
  Christian Horne, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Nataliia Klievtsova, Juergen Mangler, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
• DORY: Dynamic Object-centric Relations for sYnthetic simulation 148-152
  Denise Cosolo, Francesca Meneghello, Massimiliano Ronzani
• Everything Real but the Drift: A Concept-Drift Benchmark Event Logs for Process Mining 153-157
  Alessandro Padella, Francesco Vinci
• I-DiDD: A Tool for the Incremental Discovery of Data-Aware Declare Models 158-162
  Tedi Ibershimi, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Marco Comuzzi
• Modeling and Monitoring of Collaborative Processes: A Merger of BPMN and Declare 163-167
  Mihály Tass, Mathias Spezia, Jonas Lindner, Anti Alman, Giovanni Meroni, Andrey Rivkin
• Multi-Log Comparison Using Transition Systems 168-172
  Steffen Anhäuser, Lukas Häußler, Lasse Jacob, Harry H. Beyel, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
• Ocelescope: An Extensible Web Framework for Object-Centric Process Mining 173-177
  Görkem-Emre Öztürk, Nina Graves, Aaron Küsters, Sebastian Menne, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
• OC-SimPN: Object-Centric Petri net Simulation 178-182
  Tijmen Kuijpers, Karolin Winter, Remco Dijkman
• One Score Does Not Fit All: A Configurable BPMN Similarity Framework 183-187
  Sherri Hadian, Adrian Rebmann, Robert Blümel, Charlotte Balcke
• petrinet-io: An Extensible Library for Petri Net Modeling and Simulation 188-192
  Ricardo Perez Marin, Andrej Jurco, Andrea Burattin, Andrey Rivkin
• PM4Moodle: Enabling Object-Centric Educational Process Mining 193-197
  Najmeh Miri, Jelena Zdravkovic, Amin Jalali
• Process of Process Mining: A Multi-perspective Event Log 198-202
  Francesca Zerbato, Lisa Zimmermann, Barbara Weber
• ProChess: Customizable Event Log Generation from Chess Game Data 203-207
  Sabine Nagel
• ProSec Modeler: Embedded Security Compliance with BPMN 208-213
  Leo Poss, Linda Maria Kölbel, Stefan Schönig
• Streamlining the education of Declarative Process Management with Process DoCtoR 214-218
  Konstantinos Varvoutas, Julian Neuberger, Hugo A. López
• What Are Your Agents Up To? Agent Behavior Mining in Action 219-223
  Maximilian Körner, Hoang Vu, Adrian Rebmann, Gabriel Kevorkian, Tobias Wuttke, Michael Perscheid, Gregor Berg, Timotheus Kampik