BP-Meet-IoT
10th International Workshop on BP-Meet-IoT
(affiliated with CBI/EDOC 2026)
Whether it is design, operations, computing, or business processes (BP), in today’s distributed world, we rely on recognizing and seizing advantages in interconnectedness. The arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled a vast number of embedded computing devices with sensing and actuation capabilities to bridge between humans, processes, and technology. With this background, the incorporation of IoT into enterprise business process engineering and management solutions revolutionizes how we analyze and automate processes to add value to our enterprises.
When BP meets IoT, we gain additional levels of data granularity and automation, enabling the development of IoT-enhanced business processes with greater flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness. Flexible, online-capable solutions resulting from such approaches provide better support for evolving business requirements. Furthermore, effective alignment among data, processes, and systems fosters innovative solutions across various application areas and IT landscapes where IoT can be applied (e.g., smart cities, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing, or e-health).
This presents considerable potential and exciting challenges that our community is ready to address. In particular, research is faced with questions such as:
- What is the impact of introducing IoT technology into the business process lifecycles?
- How can the top-down and bottom-up paradigms on which BP and IoT rely, respectively, coexist and benefit each other when brought together?
- How to bridge the abstraction gap between low-level (sensor data) and high-level events and actuations?
- How will systems deal with the changing nature and emergent behavior imposed by IoT technology?
- How will real-time communication and collaboration required in IoT systems be supported by BP analytics?
- How should privacy considerations be taken into account when analyzing data captured by IoT devices using BP mining approaches?
- How can the IoT benefit from BP technologies?
In discussing these challenges, the BP-Meet-IoT workshop will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2026, co-located with the CBI/EDOC conference to foster and further strengthen the perspectives of academia, industry, and government. Both the CBI and EDOC communities provide novel and relevant angles on these topics. This may lead to holistic innovations and potential collaborations at the intersections of not only BPM and IoT, but also the vast engineering-oriented EDOC community, extended by novel perspectives from the CBI community.
BP-Meet-IoT will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and practical experiences. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Modeling IoT-enhanced business processes
- Dealing with context in IoT-enhanced business processes
- Privacy and security in IoT-enhanced business processes
- Connection of analytical processes with IoT
- Mining IoT-enhanced business processes
- Dealing with unstructured environments and emergent behavior
- Specifying the autonomy level of IoT things
- Improving resource monitoring and quality of task execution/li>
- IoT and ubiquitous technologies supporting process analytics
- Sensor-based task management in business processes
- Cyber-physical systems automation based on BP and IoT
- Business examples of IoT technologies applied to ubiquitous BPs
- Business models for novel IoT-enhanced business processes
- Enterprise architectures for and with IoT-enhanced business processes
Manifesto
Some of these topics have been discussed in the manifesto entitled "The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: Mutual Benefits and Challenges”. This manifesto has been published by the previous organizers of this workshop together with the growing up BPM-IoT community as a result from the "Fresh Approaches to Business Process Modeling" (16191) seminar held in Dagstuhl in May 2016. One of the goals of the 10th edition of the BP-Meet-IoT workshop is to author an Addendum to this Manifesto, developing visions, challenges, and action items for the next 10 years of research at the intersection of BPM and IoT.
Location and Date
(Tentative) Program
The planned agenda for the workshop is the following:
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Invited Keynote |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | [ Coffee break ] |
| 10:15 - 12:15 | Research Track Presentations of selected papers |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch Break |
| 13:15 - 15:15 | Challenges Session Presentations and discussions of a currently ongoing initiative focussing on 4 challenges related to BP-Meet-IoT |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Challenges breakout discussions in four groups |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | [ Coffee break ] |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Final Session Presentation and discussion of breakout session results, next steps, conclusion of workshop. |
Important Dates
Submissions
Manuscripts (research and industrial papers) submission
The articles are expected to be between 12-15 pages long including references, figures and tables. The title page must contain a short abstract and a short list of keywords. Relevant members of the international community working on IoT and BPM topics will review all submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 PC members in order to guarantee that only high-quality papers are accepted.
The article must be formatted in accordance with the recommended CEUR-WS.org workshop proceedings template specified by CEUR-WS.org. We strongly recommend using the avilable LaTeX template on Overleaf as basis. We further provide plain LaTeX sources, ODT or DOCX (not recommended) templates. The article must be submitted electronically through EasyChair by selecting the WS: BP-Meet-IoT track.
Publication & Registration
All the workshop papers will be published as a post-proceeding volume in CEUR Workshop Proceedings on CEUR-WS.org (to be sent around approx. two weeks after the workshop). It is mandatory that at least one author will register and present the paper during the workshop.
Workshop Organizers
Program Committee (tentative)
- Adrian Mos, Naver LABS, France
- Agnes Koschmider, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Andrea Delgado, INCO, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Estefania Serral, LIRIS, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Felix Mannhardt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Francesco Leotta, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- Lukas Malburg, University of Trier, Germany
- Marco Franceschetti, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
- Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Mathias Weske, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
- Vicente Pelechano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Victoria Torres, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE