publications

2026

1. IS

   Agentic Business Process Management: A research manifesto

   Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo, and 15 more authors

   Information Systems, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{CALVANESE2026102738,
     title = {Agentic Business Process Management: A research manifesto},
     journal = {Information Systems},
     volume = {140},
     pages = {102738},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2026.102738},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437926000529},
     author = {Calvanese, Diego and Casciani, Angelo and {De Giacomo}, Giuseppe and Dumas, Marlon and Fournier, Fabiana and Kampik, Timotheus and Malfa, Emanuele La and Limonad, Lior and Marrella, Andrea and Metzger, Andreas and Montali, Marco and Amyot, Daniel and Fettke, Peter and Polyvyanyy, Artem and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Sardiña, Sebastian and Tax, Niek and Weber, Barbara},
   }

2. IS

   Formal semantics for knowledge representation and automated reasoning in BPMN process models

   Angelo Casciani, Simone Agostinelli, Yves Lespérance, and 2 more authors

   Information Systems, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{CASCIANI2026102718,
     title = {Formal semantics for knowledge representation and automated reasoning in BPMN process models},
     journal = {Information Systems},
     volume = {140},
     pages = {102718},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2026.102718},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437926000323},
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and Agostinelli, Simone and Lespérance, Yves and Marrella, Andrea and Sardiña, Sebastian},
   }

3. PS

   Enabling natural language analysis for object-centric event logs

   Angelo Casciani, Mario Luca Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, and 1 more author

   Process Science, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{casciani2026enabling,
     title = {Enabling natural language analysis for object-centric event logs},
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and Bernardi, Mario Luca and Cimitile, Marta and Marrella, Andrea},
     journal = {Process Science},
     volume = {3},
     number = {1},
     pages = {5},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44311-026-00037-9},
     doi = {10.1007/s44311-026-00037-9},
     publisher = {Springer International Publishing Cham},
   }

4. IS

   Enhancing next activity prediction in process mining with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

   Angelo Casciani, Mario Luca Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, and 1 more author

   Information Systems, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{DBLP:journals/is/CascianiBCM26,
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and Bernardi, Mario Luca and Cimitile, Marta and Marrella, Andrea},
     title = {Enhancing next activity prediction in process mining with Retrieval-Augmented
                       Generation},
     journal = {Information Systems},
     volume = {137},
     pages = {102642},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2025.102642},
     doi = {10.1016/J.IS.2025.102642},
     timestamp = {Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:52:42 +0100},
   }

2025

1. LM4Plan

   A Requirements Engineering-Driven Methodology for Planning Domain Generation via LLMs with Invariant-Based Refinement

   Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Andrea Marrella, and 1 more author

   In ICAPS 2025 Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs (LM4Plan), 2025

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{casciani2025requirements,
     title = {A Requirements Engineering-Driven Methodology for Planning Domain Generation via LLMs with Invariant-Based Refinement},
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and De Giacomo, Giuseppe and Marrella, Andrea and Weinhuber, Christoph},
     booktitle = {ICAPS 2025 Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs (LM4Plan)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. CAiSE

   A Conversational Framework for Faithful Multi-perspective Analysis of Production Systems

   Angelo Casciani, Livia Lestingi, Andrea Marrella, and 1 more author

   In Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 37th International Conference, CAiSE 2025, Vienna, Austria, June 16-20, 2025, Proceedings, Part I, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/caise/CascianiLMM25,
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and Lestingi, Livia and Marrella, Andrea and Matta, Andrea},
     editor = {Krogstie, John and Rinderle{-}Ma, Stefanie and Kappel, Gerti and Proper, Henderik A.},
     title = {A Conversational Framework for Faithful Multi-perspective Analysis
                       of Production Systems},
     booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 37th International Conference,
                       CAiSE 2025, Vienna, Austria, June 16-20, 2025, Proceedings, Part {I}},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
     volume = {15701},
     pages = {163--181},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94569-4\_10},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-94569-4\_10},
     timestamp = {Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:52:26 +0200},
   }

3. CAiSE

   Integrating LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning for Framed Autonomy in AI-Augmented Business Process Management

   Angelo Casciani

   In Intelligent Information Systems - CAiSE 2025 Forum and Doctoral Consortium, Vienna, Austria, June 16-20, 2025, Proceedings, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/caise/Casciani25,
     author = {Casciani, Angelo},
     editor = {Pufahl, Luise and Rosenthal, Kristina and Espa{\~{n}}a, Sergio and Nurcan, Selmin},
     title = {Integrating LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning for Framed Autonomy in AI-Augmented
                       Business Process Management},
     booktitle = {Intelligent Information Systems - CAiSE 2025 Forum and Doctoral Consortium,
                       Vienna, Austria, June 16-20, 2025, Proceedings},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
     volume = {557},
     pages = {277--285},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94590-8\_33},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-94590-8\_33},
     timestamp = {Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:05:23 +0200},
   }

4. SEBD

   A Framework for Enhanced Decision-Making Support in Production Planning through Event Data Analysis

   Simone Agostinelli, Dario Benvenuti, Angelo Casciani, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 33rd Symposium On Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2025), 2025

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{agostinelli2025framework,
     title = {A Framework for Enhanced Decision-Making Support in Production Planning through Event Data Analysis},
     author = {Agostinelli, Simone and Benvenuti, Dario and Casciani, Angelo and De Luzi, Francesca and Marinacci, Matteo and Marrella, Andrea and Rossi, Jacopo},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Symposium On Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2025)},
     series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
     volume = {4182},
     pages = {274--283},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4182/paper70.pdf},
   }

2024

1. AI4BPM

   The Role of Trust in AI-Augmented Business Process Management Systems

   Giacomo Acitelli, Simone Agostinelli, Angelo Casciani, and 1 more author

   In Business Process Management Workshops - BPM 2024 International Workshops, Krakow, Poland, September 1-6, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/bpm/AcitelliACM24,
     author = {Acitelli, Giacomo and Agostinelli, Simone and Casciani, Angelo and Marrella, Andrea},
     editor = {Gdowska, Katarzyna and G{\'{o}}mez{-}L{\'{o}}pez, Mar{\'{\i}}a Teresa and Rehse, Jana{-}Rebecca},
     title = {The Role of Trust in AI-Augmented Business Process Management Systems},
     booktitle = {Business Process Management Workshops - {BPM} 2024 International Workshops,
                       Krakow, Poland, September 1-6, 2024, Revised Selected Papers},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
     volume = {534},
     pages = {5--17},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78666-2\_1},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-78666-2\_1},
     timestamp = {Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:29:58 +0100},
   }

2. PMAI

   An End-To-End Execution of a Logistic Process in an AI-Augmented Business Process Management System

   Giacomo Acitelli, Simone Agostinelli, Angelo Casciani, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era (PMAI 2024) co-located with 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 19, 2024, 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pmai/AcitelliACM24,
     author = {Acitelli, Giacomo and Agostinelli, Simone and Casciani, Angelo and Marrella, Andrea},
     editor = {Giacomo, Giuseppe De and Fionda, Valeria and Fournier, Fabiana and Ielo, Antonio and Limonad, Lior and Montali, Marco},
     title = {An End-To-End Execution of a Logistic Process in an AI-Augmented Business
                       Process Management System},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Process Management
                       in the {AI} Era {(PMAI} 2024) co-located with 27th European Conference
                       on Artificial Intelligence {(ECAI} 2024), Santiago de Compostela,
                       Spain, October 19, 2024},
     series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
     volume = {3779},
     pages = {5--10},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3779/short1.pdf},
     timestamp = {Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:46:06 +0100},
   }

3. BPM

   Conversational AI for Framed Autonomy in AI-augmented Business Process Management

   Angelo Casciani

   In Proceedings of the Best Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration & Resources Forum at BPM 2024 co-located with 22nd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2024), Krakow, Poland, September 1st to 6th, 2024, 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/bpm/Casciani24,
     author = {Casciani, Angelo},
     editor = {del{-}R{\'{\i}}o{-}Ortega, Adela and Montali, Marco and Rinderle{-}Ma, Stefanie and Reijers, Hajo A. and vom Brocke, Jan and Weske, Mathias and Depaire, Beno{\^{\i}}t and Indulska, Marta and van der Aa, Han and Adrian, Weronika T. and Genga, Laura and Leemans, Sander J. J. and Gdowska, Katarzyna and G{\'{o}}mez{-}L{\'{o}}pez, Mar{\'{\i}}a Teresa and Rehse, Jana{-}Rebecca and Agostinelli, Simone},
     title = {Conversational {AI} for Framed Autonomy in AI-augmented Business Process
                       Management},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Best Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and
                       Demonstration {\&} Resources Forum at {BPM} 2024 co-located with
                       22nd International Conference on Business Process Management {(BPM}
                       2024), Krakow, Poland, September 1st to 6th, 2024},
     series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
     volume = {3758},
     pages = {53--60},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3758/paper-09.pdf},
     timestamp = {Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:19:15 +0200},
   }

4. CAiSE

   A Context-Aware Framework to Support Decision-Making in Production Planning

   Simone Agostinelli, Dario Benvenuti, Angelo Casciani, and 4 more authors

   In Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 36th International Conference, CAiSE 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3-7, 2024, Proceedings, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/caise/AgostinelliBCLMMR24,
     author = {Agostinelli, Simone and Benvenuti, Dario and Casciani, Angelo and Luzi, Francesca De and Marinacci, Matteo and Marrella, Andrea and Rossi, Jacopo},
     editor = {Guizzardi, Giancarlo and Santoro, Fl{\'{a}}via Maria and Mouratidis, Haralambos and Soffer, Pnina},
     title = {A Context-Aware Framework to Support Decision-Making in Production
                       Planning},
     booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 36th International Conference,
                       CAiSE 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3-7, 2024, Proceedings},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
     volume = {14663},
     pages = {248--264},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61057-8\_15},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-61057-8\_15},
     timestamp = {Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:05:24 +0200},
   }

5. IIS

   Conversing with business process-aware large language models: the BPLLM framework

   Mario Luca Bernardi, Angelo Casciani, Marta Cimitile, and 1 more author

   J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{DBLP:journals/jiis/BernardiCCM24,
     author = {Bernardi, Mario Luca and Casciani, Angelo and Cimitile, Marta and Marrella, Andrea},
     title = {Conversing with business process-aware large language models: the
                       {BPLLM} framework},
     journal = {J. Intell. Inf. Syst.},
     volume = {62},
     number = {6},
     pages = {1607--1629},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-024-00898-1},
     doi = {10.1007/S10844-024-00898-1},
     timestamp = {Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:16:55 +0100},
   }

6. Ital-IA

   A preliminary study on Business Process-aware Large Language Models

   Mario Luca Bernardi, Angelo Casciani, Marta Cimitile, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Ital-IA Intelligenza Artificiale - Thematic Workshops co-located with the 4th CINI National Lab AIIS Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2024), Naples, Italy, May 29-30, 2024, 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ital-ia/BernardiCCM24,
     author = {Bernardi, Mario Luca and Casciani, Angelo and Cimitile, Marta and Marrella, Andrea},
     editor = {Martino, Sergio Di and Sansone, Carlo and Masciari, Elio and Rossi, Silvia and Gravina, Michela},
     title = {A preliminary study on Business Process-aware Large Language Models},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ital-IA Intelligenza Artificiale - Thematic Workshops
                       co-located with the 4th {CINI} National Lab {AIIS} Conference on Artificial
                       Intelligence (Ital-IA 2024), Naples, Italy, May 29-30, 2024},
     series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
     volume = {3762},
     pages = {441--446},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3762/504.pdf},
     timestamp = {Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:47:20 +0200},
   }

7. RCIS

   Conversational Systems for AI-Augmented Business Process Management

   Angelo Casciani, Mario Luca Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, and 1 more author

   In Research Challenges in Information Science - 18th International Conference, RCIS 2024, Guimarães, Portugal, May 14-17, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, 2024

   DOI Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/rcis/CascianiBCM24,
     author = {Casciani, Angelo and Bernardi, Mario Luca and Cimitile, Marta and Marrella, Andrea},
     editor = {Ara{\'{u}}jo, Jo{\~{a}}o and de la Vara, Jose Luis and Santos, Maribel Yasmina and Assar, Sa{\"{\i}}d},
     title = {Conversational Systems for AI-Augmented Business Process Management},
     booktitle = {Research Challenges in Information Science - 18th International Conference,
                       {RCIS} 2024, Guimar{\~{a}}es, Portugal, May 14-17, 2024, Proceedings,
                       Part {I}},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
     volume = {513},
     pages = {183--200},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59465-6\_12},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-59465-6\_12},
     timestamp = {Sat, 31 May 2025 23:11:47 +0200},
   }