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 focuses on the discovery and analysis of object-centric models from event data, which presents numerous challenges. Two key challenges that remain prominent are:

(1)  The correct adoption of various object-centric log formats and the accurate representation of richer, relational, and graph-structured event data.

(2)  The development of modeling constructs in object-centric process notations that can be effectively and efficiently discovered and analyzed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• object-centric process modelling (formal and conceptual foundations, best practices etc)

• extensions of object-centric formalisms

• syntactic and semantic properties, correctness criteria

• object-centric process composition

• collaborating object-centric processes

• formal techniques for object-centric process analysis

• object-centric event log formats

• data preparation for object-centric log extraction

• discovery, conformance checking and monitoring

• conceptual foundations of object-centric process representation

• object-awareness vs. object-centricity

• experience reports on teaching object-centric processes

• insightful surveys and case studies on adoption and application of object-centric approaches

• visionary papers

There are two submission categories:

• Full papers — 12 pages (including references), focusing on complete or ongoing research, case studies or tool/system descriptions.

• Short papers — 6 pages (including references), suitable for visionary and position papers as well as extended abstracts for PhD students in which they can present their ongoing research.

Submission is via EasyChair. Authors are requested to prepare their submissions according to the Springer’s LNCS/LNBIP formats. 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.

To submit your paper, go on the submission page of BPM 2025 and make a new submission to 3rd Workshop on Object-centric processes from A to Z.

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.

Submission: June 13, 2025

Notification: July 3, 2025

Andrea Delgado, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Amin Jalali, Stockholm University, Sweden

Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Irina Lomazova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Sander J. J. Leemans, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Giovanni Meroni, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italy

Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy

Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel

Dominique Sommers, Celonis, The Netherlands

Mathias Weske,  Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Sarah Winkler, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Karolin Winter, 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