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(NEW) PROSE 2026: Call for Contributions

1st International Workshop “Process-Centric Objects for Software Engineering”: 

https://process-centric-objects.org

(Co-located with AWPN 2026)

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 andt ransformations 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.

CONTRIBUTIONS

The PROSE workshop will take place from September 22nd to September 23rd at FernUni Hagen. It is co-located with AWPN 2026 complementing AWPN's friendly discussions and athmosphere. 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 (up to 12 pages): Original research on formalisms, modelling methodology or architectures for PCOs.

Page limits are excluding references.

Papers should be submitted in the LNCS style to 

https://process-centric-objects.org

by July 19th, 2026. 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). Accepted contributions will be invited for presentation at PROSE until August 8th, 2026.

DATES

- July 19: Abstract submission deadline

- August 8: Acceptance notification

- September 7: Registration deadline

- September 21 / 22: Workshop AWPN

- September 22 / 23: Workshop PROSE

We look forward to your contributions!

Robin Bergenthum, Gabriel Juhas, Robert Lorenz