Traditionally, processes are modelled and discovered primarily considering their control-flow
dimension, while disregarding other key dimensions that affect the control flow, such as the data
dimension. Consequently, the resulting models are unable to suitably represent real-life,
widespread processes where behaviour arises from the complex interplay among multiple
business objects and their one-to-many/many-to-many relationships. New paradigms that
combine data and processes, such as object-centric processes, present new perspectives to the
field of business process management, but also bring new challenges.
On the one hand, object-centric processes toned to be correctly specified and modelled. Such
multi-perspective models are intrinsically difficult to analyse. This calls for a suitable trade-off
between expressiveness and feasibility of analytic techniques. In addition, object-centric models
can span a complex network containing many processes and objects. Thus, they bring great
potential to create models that cross process and organisational boundaries that current
modelling techniques impose.
On the other hand, process mining focus on the discovery and analysis of object-centric models
from event data, which poses a twofold challenge. First, the current notion of event logs fail in
representing event data for object-centric processes. Conventional event logs contain isolated
traces, whereas object-centric processes require richer, relational and graph-structured
representations of the event data. Second, novel process mining techniques and suitable event
data/log formats have to be studied so as to operate over such complex data and fully unleash
the insights hidden therein. This also brings the need to ensure that modelling constructs in
object-centric process notations can be effectively and efficiently discovered and analysed.
The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the fields of BPM and
PM who work on object-centric process to share their ideas and current research and to discuss
challenges and future directions of the field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
There are two submission categories:
To diversify the workshop program, we offer space for a limited number of short tutorials.
Each tutorial should provide an in-depth account on techniques, tools and resources (such as logs and use cases) in the area of object-centric processes.
All the materials related to the tutorials will be published on the workshop’s webpage.
The 1-page descriptions will be included as abstracts in the workshop proceedings.
Each tutorial proposal must contain the following information:
Submission (both papers and tutorial proposals) will be via EasyChair.
Authors are requested to prepare their submissions according to the Springer’s LNBIP format.
Papers have to be written in English, and all the papers written in different formats and/or exceeding the above specified page limits will be desk rejected. When submitting, select "Object-centric processes from A to Z” as the submission track.
Each submission will receive at least three reviews. If a paper gets accepted, at least one of the
authors must attend the workshop to present their work.
Authors of the high voted papers will be invited to submit their extended works to a special issue
in the TBD journal.
Paper submission: June 14, 2024
Tutorial proposals: July 1, 2024
Paper and tutorial notification: July 12, 2024
Camera-ready: August 14, 2024
Han van der Aa, University of Vienna, Austria
Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Johannes De Smedt, KU Leuven, Belgium
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Irina Lomazova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Meroni, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jorge Munoz-Gama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Artem Polyvyanyy, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Dominique Sommers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Francesca Zerbato, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Marco Montali , Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Andrey Rivkin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jan Martijn van der Werf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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