PROSE 2026: International Workshop on Process-Centric Objects for Software Engineering

Beschreibung

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Workshop Theme and Scope:

Recent advancements in Business Process Modeling and Process Mining have improved the discovery and visualization of complex organizational behavior by treating objects as first-class citizens of a workflow model. However, a significant gap remains: discovered models primarily provide a global runtime perspective, but lack the modularity, encapsulation, and integration needed for software engineering.
The Process-Centric Objects (PCO) paradigm proposes a shift from global process perspective toward modular system design. By treating process models as classes, Process-Centric Objects enable the design of autonomous, vertically integrated process types that encapsulate data, objects, and their lifecycles within a single executable entity. They also capture how objects relate, compose, interact, and synchronize.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the formalization, design, and execution of process-centric objects, as well as their extraction from discovered process models, thereby bridging the gap between object centric process mining, system design, and software
engineering.

Topics of Interest:

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Modularity, Composition, Interaction: Formal foundations of object-centric models, distinguishing between structural composition (permanent 1:N and M:N relationships) and dynamic interaction (event-based synchronization) as modular alternatives to global synchronization.
• Formal Mappings and Interoperability: Relationships and transformations between different formalisms for data-centric objects, process-centric objects, and object-centric processes (e.g., Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Class Diagrams, SQL, BPMN, Colored Petri Nets, and OCPN).
• Case Studies: Case studies demonstrating the PCO paradigm in practice.
• Inheritance and Polymorphism: Applying theories of inheritance specifically to the lifecycle of process-centric objects; focusing on the abstraction and specialization of process classes while preserving behavioral consistency.
• Extraction of Classes (Modules): Algorithms for slicing global models into modular, executable process-centric classes.
• Vertical Integration in Process-Centric Object Applications: Encapsulation of data, application as a lifecycle, and presentation layers within process-centric objects.

Submission Guidelines:

Papers should be submitted in the LNCS style to https://process-centric-objects.org.
Contributions will not undergo a detailed review process but will be assessed by the program committee for relevance. If requested by the participants, accepted papers will be published in a common proceedings volume with AWPN 2026 within the digital library of the German Foundation of Informatics (GI), offering a digital object identifier (DOI).
We seek position papers, work in progress and research papers:

• Position Papers (2-4 pages): Visionary ideas on object-centric process and process-centric objects paradigms.
• Work in Progress (up to 6 pages): Ongoing research and research proposals.
• Full Research Papers (12 pages): Original research on formalisms, modelling methodology or architectures for PCOs.

Important Dates:

Abstract Deadline:July 5^th 2026July 31^st 2026
Paper Submission Deadline:July 19^th 2026August 17^th 2026
Notification of Acceptance:August 8^th 2026August 20^th 2026
Final Version Due:August 17^th 2026September 7^th 2026
Registration Deadline: September 7^th
Workshop: September 22^nd to September 23^rd

Programme Committee:

• Robin Bergenthum (FernUniversität in Hagen, chair)
• Gabriel Juhás (Pan-European University Bratislava, chair)
• Marc Kimmel (Universität Augsburg)
• Tomáš Kováčik (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava)
• Jakub Kovář (FernUniversität in Hagen)
• Robert Lorenz (Universität Augsburg, chair)
• Juraj Mažári (Netgrif)