Special Session
Special Session on
Agentic AI for Business Processes -
AXPRO
2026
22 - 24 May, 2026 - Benidorm, Spain
Within the 28th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2026
CHAIR
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Thorsten Händler
Ferdinand Porsche Mobile University of Applied Sciences (FERNFH)
Austria
https://www.fernfh.ac.at/team/thorsten-haendler/
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Brief Bio
Dr. Thorsten Händler heads the department for Digital Transformation at the Ferdinand Porsche Mobile University of Applied Sciences (FERNFH), Austria. His research interests cover fields of Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Software Engineering, including agentic AI & multi-agent systems, AI decision dynamics, software architectures, HCI, process and knowledge management, as well as AI education & training. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria.
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SCOPE
Agentic AI introduces new forms of autonomy, adaptivity, and decision-making that fundamentally reshape how business processes are designed, enacted, and governed. Rather than replacing established BPM concepts, agentic systems extend the process lifecycle through runtime decision-making and hybrid human–AI execution, often realized through multi-agent and context-aware architectures. This evolution raises challenges for process architectures, control mechanisms, accountability, and governance in increasingly autonomous process environments.
AXPRO addresses these challenges by focusing on agentic AI as a key driver of adaptive and decision-centric business processes. We invite conceptual, empirical, and technical contributions exploring architectures, methods, and evaluation approaches for agentic AI–enabled processes across analysis, modeling, execution, monitoring, and redesign. AXPRO aims to advance theory and practice for next-generation process and information systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Agentic AI and Autonomy in Enterprise Process and Information Systems
- Adaptive and Decision-Centric Business Processes
- Runtime Decision-Making and Dynamic Process Steering
- Architectures for Agentic and AI-Enabled BPM
- Multi-agent Systems for Process Execution and Coordination
- Context Modeling and Context Management in Agentic Processes (e.g., Model Context Protocol)
- Control Mechanisms, Governance, and Escalation Strategies
- Human–AI Collaboration Across the BPM Lifecycle
- Feedback, Learning, and Adaptation in Process Systems
- Economic and Business Evaluation of Agentic Process Solutions
- Empirical Studies and Industrial Applications of AI-Driven Processes
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
March 24, 2026
Authors Notification:
April 7, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
April 15, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library