The 25th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2027) will take place in Leuven, Belgium, on 5–10 September 2027.

The International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in the field. The conference embraces the interdisciplinary nature of BPM. Accordingly, the conference aims to bring together outstanding research contributions and diverse perspectives from the fields of computer science, information systems engineering, and information systems management. The objective is to enhance and refine the existing portfolio of theories, methods, and tools for managing and improving business processes.

To accommodate the diversity of contributions, the BPM conference is structured into three tracks: Foundations, Engineering, and Management. Each track covers different phenomena of interest and research methods. Accordingly, each track has specific evaluation criteria, a separate track chair, and a dedicated program committee. The track chairs work together with the consolidation chair to align the tracks. Authors should consider the typical audience of each track. This helps in selecting the right track and shaping the work according to the expectations of that audience.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must present original work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under review at another journal or conference.

We welcome full research papers contributing to one of the three conference tracks:

• Track I: Foundations welcomes conceptual, theoretical, algorithmic, and methodological contributions that advance the foundations of BPM. Empirical evaluation is desirable but not mandatory. Contributions must demonstrate technical quality, rigorous reasoning, and clear advances over the state of the art.

• Track II: Engineering welcomes novel artifacts and systems that address concrete BPM problems in business environments. Contributions must have at least prototype maturity and include a rigorous empirical evaluation, together with a critical discussion of limitations and threats to validity. Contributions using AI must go beyond the mere application of existing techniques and justify the adaptations required in the BPM context.

• Track III: Management welcomes research examining BPM from organizational, socio-technical, psychological, managerial, or societal perspectives, with a strong emphasis on empirical research. Contributions should advance understanding of how BPM concepts and underlying information systems deliver organizational and business value.

Each paper must be submitted to exactly one track.

Papers must be written in English and formatted according to Springer’s LNCS formatting guidelines. Submissions must not exceed 16 pages, including references and appendices. The LNCS template must not be modified: changes to margins, font sizes, or line spacing are not permitted, and space around figures, tables, captions, and headings must not be excessively reduced. Papers exceeding the page limit or visibly deviating from the template may be desk-rejected without review.

The title page must contain the paper title, a short abstract, and keywords. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the objective and contribution of the work, the main results, and the relationship to existing research.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the BPM 2027 EasyChair submission site.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following, organized by track.

Track I: Foundations

• New concepts, theories, and conceptual frameworks for BPM.
• Formal methods, process representation and analysis, algorithms, and reasoning.
• Novel process modeling languages, notations, and semantics.
• Architectures and conceptual models for process-aware information systems.
• Frameworks, patterns, and taxonomies for BPM.
• Interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological foundations.
• Theoretical foundations of process mining and data-driven process management.
• Foundations for AI-enabled and intelligent business processes.
• Research that challenges established assumptions or opens new directions for BPM.

Track II: Engineering

• Process mining and process analytics.
• Predictive and prescriptive process monitoring.
• Process automation and execution.
• Process modeling and model analysis.
• Novel BPM artifacts, tools, and systems.
• AI techniques adapted to BPM problems.
• Interaction between processes, software infrastructure, and services.
• Applications in domains such as digital health, smart mobility, logistics, and smart government.

Track III: Management

• Organizational and societal challenges addressed from a process-oriented perspective.
• Socio-technical aspects of BPM, including interactions between technology, people, work practices, and organizational structures.
• Novel organizational and technology-enabled modes of BPM.
• Development of process-oriented organizational capabilities.
• Organizational and managerial implications of BPM and process mining.
• Process innovation and process-related digitalization.
• Process analysis and organizational routines.
• Real-world organizational BPM practices and initiatives.
• Business value and impact of BPM at individual, team, organizational, and ecosystem levels.

Detailed track descriptions and evaluation criteria are available at:
https://bpm2027leuven.org/call-for-research-papers/

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: 4 March 2027.

• Full paper submission: 18 March 2027.

• Notification to authors: 14 May 2027.

• Camera-ready submission: 17 June 2027.

• Conference: 5–10 September 2027.

• Workshops: 6 September 2027.

All submission deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12).

The full paper submission deadline is firm and will not be extended.

Committees

Program Chairs

• María Teresa Gómez, University of Seville, Spain: Track I, Foundations.

• Han van der Aa, University of Vienna, Austria: Track II, Engineering.

• Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Track III, Management.

• Matthias Weidlich, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany: Consolidation Chair.

Organizing Committee — General Co-Chairs

• Johannes De Smedt, KU Leuven, Belgium.

• Jochen De Weerdt, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Publication

Accepted research papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference, using a student or regular registration, and present the paper.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Springer journal Process Science.

Awards

The conference will recognize outstanding contributions through a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

Papers eligible for the Best Student Paper Award must have contributions carried out mainly by one or more students, although advisors and other collaborators may be co-authors. Eligible papers must be marked as student papers in EasyChair and presented by a student author, unless an exception is granted by the program chairs.

Venue

The conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium, organized by KU Leuven, on 5–10 September 2027.

Conference website: https://bpm2027leuven.org/

Contact

Questions about submissions may be directed to the relevant track chair. General inquiries can be emailed to bpm2027@kuleuven.be.