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# PMAI 2025
Process Management in the AI Era 2025

### Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era 2025
co-located with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)

### Bologna, Italy, October 25, 2025.

Edited by

### Fabiana Fournier 1
Lior Limonad 1
Giuseppe De Giacomo 2
Andrea Marrella 3
Antonella Guzzo 4
Antonio Ielo 4

1 IBM Research, Israel
2 Oxford University, UK
3 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
4 University of Calabria, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 9 papers were accepted for this volume, 4 as regular papers and 5 as short papers.

### Invited Talks:

- Generation of Graph-based Models for Digital Twins of Discrete Event Systems (abstract included in preface)
  Andrea Matta

### Session 1: Long Papers

- XABPs: Towards eXplainable Autonomous Business Processes
  Peter Fettke, Fabiana Fournier, Lior Limonad, Andreas Metzger, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber
- Toward Self-Modifying Autonomous Business Process Systems
  Achiya Elyasaf, Andreas Metzger, Sebastian Sardina, Arik Senderovich, Estefania Serral Asensio, Niek Tax
- Agentic Process Observability: Discovering Behavioral Variability
  Fabiana Fournier, Lior Limonad, Yuval David
- Process Pattern-Based Flexible Federated Learning
  Marius Take, Sascha Alpers, Christoph Becker, Maryline Irma Mengoualeu Majiade, Andreas Oberweis

### Session 2: Short Papers

- Do Outpatient Services Impact Length of Stay? A Preliminary Analysis through Deep Learning Classification
  Giorgio Leonardi, Stefania Montani, Manuel Striani
- Constraint Guided Discrete Diffusion for Conditional Hierarchical Industrial Graph Generation
  Thomas von Plessing, Andrea Matta, Mohsen A. Jafari, Yulin Li
- Autonomy in Business Process Execution: Why We Need First-Class Abstractions for Goals and Normative Frames
  Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Timotheus Kampik, Yves Lesperance, Andrea Marrella, Andrea Matta
- Towards Conversational Actionability in AI-Augmented Business Process Management Systems
  Marco Montali, Marco Comuzzi, Irene Teinemaa, Daniel Amyot, Marlon Dumas
- Beyond Temporal Relationships: Causal Support in Declarative Process Modeling
  Luca Giuliani, Andrea Zecchini

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