People, Processes, and Complex Intelligent Systems — Designing Future Entanglement and Alignments
In an era of rapid digital transformation, companies and organizations face the challenge of optimizing their business processes while ensuring the satisfaction of all stakeholders, both internal (employees and management) and external (customers and partners). Technological advances and the implementation of innovative tools and methods are opening up promising opportunities to redesign business processes, significantly increasing efficiency while also enhancing the user experience and creating substantial added value.
Conference Scope
We welcome rigorous academic research and practice-driven innovation addressing how communication-based process design can support resilience, adaptive learning, and collaborative intelligence. The conference provides a forum for exchanging ideas, artifacts, and experiences that connect BPM research, design science, and societal transformation.
The S-BPM One 2026 Conference invites researchers, innovators, and practitioners to explore how to design the future of BPM in light of propagating cyber-physicality and AI tools. Grounded in the philosophy of Subject Orientation, this edition examines the intersection of human creativity, AI-assisted collaboration, and sustainable digital transformation. These are also key issues of Europe’s 2026–2027 ambition to build a resilient, human-centered, and trustworthy digital society. Can (S-)BPM foster democratic governance, participation, and social innovation through communication and collaborative processes?
Topic of Interest
We are interested in a broad range of topics covering many aspects in (subject-oriented) business process management, but not limited to, the following areas:
Human–AI Collaboration and Cognitive (S-)BPM
- Generative AI for design, modeling, simulation, and decision support
- Cognitive BPM systems and proactive digital assistants
- AI collaboration & orchestration of humans, RPA, agents, and autonomous systems
- Trust, transparency, and explainability in AI-based processes
- Ethics and responsible governance in intelligent process ecosystems
Design Science and Innovation
- Design Science Research (DSR) contributions in (S-)BPM and system innovation
- Contextual systems engineering and low-code/no-code tools
- Digital twins and process lifecycle management
- Sustainability in transformation processes
BPM for sustainability, resilience, and circular economy
- Human-centric, socially inclusive, and value-oriented process design
- (S-)BPM applications in healthcare, logistics / mobility, and education
- Measuring and improving human well-being through processes
Applied/Cross-sectoral Insights & Case Studies
- Practical case studies from industry, education, and public sector
- AI-augmented process automation and dynamic resource management
- BPM integration with IoT, data analytics, and enterprise systems
- Living labs, storytelling-driven process innovation, and co-design practices
Data-driven & physical BPM
- Processes in physical environments (IoT, edge, cyber-physical workflows)
- Context-aware and sensor-based process adaptation
- Operational process alignment in smart factories/smart environments
- Real-time process monitoring & event streaming
- Process intelligence/mining with continuous discovery & conformance checking
Compliance, auditability & accountability by design
- Regulation-compliant, auditable AI-supported processes
- Compliance automation/governance automation
- Traceability of process decisions
Foundations & further Developments of S-BPM and Subject-Orientation
- Advances in S-BPM concepts, modeling, and execution architectures
- Communication and interaction representation in distributed ecosystems
- Process ontology, narrative integration, and knowledge representation
- Reflexive and human-centered perspectives on process ownership
NOTE on Subject-Orientation:
While S-BPM ONE is (also) the home of the research community for subject-orientation, subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM) and its modeling language PASS, we explicitly welcome and invite researchers in the process domain not familiar with that particular topic, as exchange and challenges are what our conference is meant to have and thrives on. So if you do not (yet) know what it is all about, it does not matter; maybe you can reflect on it as part of preparing a contribution or analyze why it is not a suitable approach for you or your domain.
Submission
We accept submissions in the following formats:
- Full Paper: These contributions present a completed research project or a scientifically examined case. They should follow Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) format and be of 15-20 pages length.
- Short Papers:
- Work in Progress & Technical Reports: Ongoing research or planned research contributions with initial results, as well as case studies or business applications without scientific underpinning so far (4-8 pages in Springer CCIS format).
- Reflection Papers: Discussions or opinions on current scientific or practical questions that are to be further substantiated or presented as a thesis at the conference (4-6 pages in Springer CCIS format).
- Doctoral/master studies: Research projects, ongoing studies or completed work of master and doctoral students. (Hints for Work in Progress apply.)
- Demonstration/Showcases: Presentation of applications, case studies, or prototypes. Please send proposals until April 01, 2026, to chair@s-bpm-one.org.
- Panels: Discussions with invited guests or open for contribution. Please send proposals until April 01, 2026 to chair@s-bpm-one.org.
- Tutorials: Guidance or practical guidelines from science and practice. Please send proposals until April 01, 2026 to chair@s-bpm-one.org.
- Student Track Presentation Short Paper: S-BPM ONE 2026 will have a student track, inviting students to present the results of Bachlor or Master Thesis in a short research paper that will be provided digitally .
Submission, review and publication
Work to be submitted must be original work and must not have been published or submitted elsewhere. At least one author must register for the conference and present the paper
All submissions will undergo double blind peer reviews. Full papers are evaluated in a detailed peer review of at least two members of the international program committee in terms of quality, foundations, study design and impact. All other papers/forms (Work in Progress, Reflection Papers, Demonstration/Showcases, Doctoral/master studies, Panels, Tutorials) are evaluated in a fast track review by the Program Committee. They are evaluated primarily according to their potential to stimulate discussions on practices and innovative topics. Important: For the double blind review make sure to submit without author names and please carefully select type of submission.
Accepted submissions will be published in the Springer Series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).
