Program

The program of the workshop is available below. The workshop will take place on September 1st, 2025, from 14:00 to 17:00 in Room Utrera at the BPM 2025 conference in Seville, Spain. Please refer to the conference website for venue information.

Note: The program is subject to change.

September 1st, 14:00-17:00, Room Utrera
Time	Type	Title	Speaker/Authors
14:00-15:00	Keynote	Beyond the Hype: Blockchain meets BPM - Challenges on the Plains	Julius Köpke, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
15:00-15:30	Paper presentation	On LLM-Assisted Generation of Smart Contracts from Business Processes	Fabian Stiehle, Hans Weytjens and Ingo Weber
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Paper presentation	Gas Management Patterns in Blockchain-enabled Process Execution	Hassan Atwi and Cesare Pautasso
16:30-16:45	Lightning Talk	A Methodology for Extracting and Decoding Smart Contracts Data	Flavio Corradini, Alessandro Marcelletti, Andrea Morichetta and Barbara Re
16:45-17:00	Lightning Talk	Compliance Checking For Decentralized Applications	Flavio Corradini, Alessio Galassi, Alessandro Marcelletti and Barbara Re

Aim and scope

The DLT4BPM workshop is a platform to present research on and applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), with a dedicated submission type to support interactive on-site discussions.

DLT systems open diverse opportunities in Business Process Management (BPM) in a wide range of industries. However, these opportunities come with challenges related to security, privacy, scalability, and performance.

Academia and practice address those challenges from several angles: Conceptual modeling for DLT and BPM; Collaborative business process execution on DLT; Process monitoring and auditing on data stored by distributed ledgers; Secrecy-preserving data sharing among actors in a multi-party process setting; The use of process mining to analyze and validate smart contracts; and many more.

As an outlet at the intersection of DLTs and BPM, the DLT4BPM workshop welcomes contributions of conceptual, technical, and application-oriented nature from students, researchers, and industry practitioners alike. We encourage submissions relevant to enterprises, governmental bodies, and other organizational forms across diverse domains — such as healthcare, education, finance, logistics, and others.

The workshop is co-located with the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2025), August 31 - September 5, 2025, in Seville, Spain.

Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Foundations

• Formal verification of DLT-based processes
• Conceptual modeling for DLT and BPM
• Domain-specific modeling languages for DLT and BPM
• Taxonomies, ontologies, and design patterns for DLT and BPM
• Identification of novel problems and research gaps
• Vision papers on the future of DLT and BPM

Engineering

• Design of DLT-based process-aware information systems (PaIS)
• Model-driven engineering solutions for DLT and BPM
• Automatic code generation for DLT systems supporting BPM
• Requirement engineering for DLT and BPM
• On-chain and off-chain process execution and enactment
• Scalable models for DLT-based process execution
• Interoperability and cross-chain processes
• Oracles, off-chain, and cross-chain information exchange for decision support
• Distributed process monitoring, predictive models, and anomaly detection
• Distributed compliance monitoring and auditing
• On-chain and off-chain data analytics and process mining
• Self-sovereign identity solutions for DLT and BPM
• Security and resilience requirements for DLT
• Privacy, confidentiality, and access control for DLT-based solutions
• Zero-knowledge proof techniques for process execution
• LLM and ML for BPM on DLT

Management

• Organizational and governance models for DLT and BPM
• Enforcement of regulations and business rules with DLTs
• Empirical case studies on the usage of DLTs in BPM
• Experience report on the use & adoption of DLTs in businesses
• Authentication and identity management in DLT and BPM
• Data provenance and management in DLT and BPM
• Regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, KYC, AML) and legal aspects of DLT-based PaIS
• Economic and environmental sustainability of DLT-based PaIS
• Vertical applications of DLT-based PaIS (e.g., healthcare, supply chain, finance, logistics)

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2025 June 13, 2025
• Paper notification: July 3, 2025 July 10, 2025
• Workshop date: September 1, 2025

Workshop Chairs

• Richard Hobeck, University of Berlin, Germany
• Simon Curty, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italy

Contact: dlt4bpm@gmail.com

Program Committee

• Ingo Weber, Technical University of Munich
• Claudio Di Ciccio, Utrecht University
• Julius Köpke, University of Klagenfurt
• Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg
• Felix Härer, University of Fribourg
• Walid Fdhila, University of Vienna
• Alessandro Marcelletti, University of Camerino
• Giovanni Meroni, Danish Technical University
• Tiphaine Henry, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List
• Mattia Salnitri, Politecnico di Milano
• Edoardo Marangone, Sapienza University of Rome
• Sidra Malik, CSIRO’s Data61
• Francesco Tiezzi, University of Florence
• Marcel Bühlmann, University of Fribourg
• Fabian Stiehle, Technical University of Munich