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Object-centric process management: A research manifesto, Seidel, A., Weske, M., Montali, M., Rivkin, A., Reichert, M., van der Werf, J. M. E. M., van der Aalst, W. M. P., Breitmayer, M., Liss, L., van Detten, J. N., Jalali, A., Khayatbashi, S., König, M., Lichtenstein, T., Rinderle-Ma, S., Weber, B., Soffer, P., Rossi, L., Calegari Garcia, D. & Delgado, A. & 43 others, Dijkman, R., Winkler, S., Weidlich, M., Leemans, S. J. J., Fahland, D., Swevels, A., Snoeck, M., Guizzardi, G., Gianola, A., Gal, A., Kindler, E., Lomazova, I., Re, B., Meroni, G., Morichetta, A., Marcelletti, A., Pettinari, S., van Dongen, B., De Smedt, J., Rafiei, M., Köpke, J., Hildebrandt, T., Zerbato, F., Pufahl, L., Reijers, H., Polyvyanyy, A., Di Francescomarino, C., Maria Maggi, F., Pastor, O., Haarmann, S., Proper, H., Lu, X., López, H., Slaats, T., De Weerdt, J., de Leoni, M., Martin, N., Winter, K., Beest, N. V., López-Pintado, O., van Zelst, S., Ghidini, C. & Senderovich, A., 1 Oct 2026, In: Information Systems. 141, 102728.
Leveraging Workarounds for a Problem-Focused Improvement of Business Processes, Outmazgin, N., Soffer, P. & Hadar, I., Aug 2026, In: Business and Information Systems Engineering. 68, 4, p. 761-790 30 p.
Best ICPM 2023 workshop papers, De Smedt, J. & Soffer, P., Jun 2026, In: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 64, 3, p. 937-940 4 p.
Milana: Bridging Process Mining and Visual Analytics Through Task Classification, Zimmermann, L., Vrotsou, K., Soffer, P., Koytek, P., Weber, B. & Sadiq, S., 2026, Business Process Management Workshops - BPM 2025 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. van de Weerd, I., Estrada Torres, B. & van der Aa, H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 557-572 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 569 LNBIP).
Towards Securing AI Integrated Business Processes: a Reasoning Framework Informed by a Semantic Model, Engelberg, G., Shaked, A., Messe, N. & Soffer, P., 2026, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 4214
Exploring Human Trust in Software Robots for Robotic Process Automation, Agostinelli, S., Bisconti, P., Casciani, A., Marrella, A., Rehse, J. R., Angelini, M., Asatiani, A., Axmann, B., Czarnecki, C., del Río Ortega, A., Delgado, A., Enríquez, J. G., Hannibal, G., Janiesch, C., Jiménez-Ramírez, A., Khan, F. A., Martínez-Rojas, A., Modlinski, A., Plattfaut, R. & Reijers, H. & 7 others, Resinas, M., Rosemann, M., Santoro, F., Sarkadi, S., Soffer, P., Weber, B. & Wilde, A., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Business and Information Systems Engineering.
Root-cause analysis of business processes: How humans utilize multiple sources of information to explain observations, Tsoury, A., Soffer, P. & Reinhartz-Berger, I., 1 Oct 2025, In: Information Systems. 134, 102578.
Beyond Risk Propagation: A Unified Approach Takeaways From the Cybersecurity Domain, Mosca, A., Fumagalli, M., Engelberg, G., Corvalan, V. D., Klein, D., Soffer, P., Calvanese, D. & Guizzardi, G., 2025, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 4176
Conceptualizing Business Process Dependencies That Propagate Cyber Risk, Engelberg, G., Hadad, M. & Soffer, P., 2025, Intelligent Information Systems - CAiSE 2025 Forum and Doctoral Consortium, Proceedings. Pufahl, L., Rosenthal, K., España, S. & Nurcan, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 86-94 9 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 557 LNBIP).
Using Facial Expressions to Predict Process Mining Task Performance, Shalev, L., Hadar, I., Dror, R., Solomon, A., Sorokina, E., Raymond, M. W. & Soffer, P., 2025, Process Mining Workshops - ICPM 2024 International Workshops, Lyngby, Denmark, October 14–18, 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Delgado, A. & Slaats, T. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 559-571 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 533).
Guiding attention in flow-based conceptual models through consistent flow and pattern visibility, Figl, K., Soffer, P. & Weber, B., Oct 2024, In: Decision Support Systems. 185, 114292.
Preface, Guizzardi, G., Santoro, F., Mouratidis, H. & Soffer, P., 2024, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 14663 LNCS, p. vi-vii
Anticipating Data Inaccuracy Consequences in Business Processes: an Empirical Study, Evron, Y., Soffer, P. & Zamansky, A., 2024, Business Process Management - 22nd International Conference, BPM 2024, Proceedings. Marrella, A., Resinas, M., Jans, M. & Rosemann, M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 439-455 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14940 LNCS).
Process Mining Workshops: ICPM 2023 International Workshops, Rome, Italy, October 23-27, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, De Smedt, J. (Editor) & Soffer, P. (Editor), 2024, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 514 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 503)
Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities, Miksch, S., Di Ciccio, C., Soffer, P. & Weber, B., 2024, In: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 44, 6, p. 132-141 10 p.
Preface, De Smedt, J. & Soffer, P., 2024, In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 503 LNBIP, p. v-vi
From network traffic data to business activities: a conceptualization and a recognition approach, Hadad, M., Engelberg, G. & Soffer, P., Dec 2023, In: Software and Systems Modeling. 22, 6, p. 1827-1854 28 p.
Detecting cross-case associations in an event log: toward a pattern-based detection, Dubinsky, Y., Soffer, P. & Hadar, I., Dec 2023, In: Software and Systems Modeling. 22, 6, p. 1755-1777 23 p.
Process-Data Quality: The True Frontier of Process Mining, Ter Hofstede, A. H. M., Koschmider, A., Marrella, A., Andrews, R., Fischer, D. A., Sadeghianasl, S., Wynn, M. T., Comuzzi, M., De Weerdt, J., Goel, K., Martin, N. & Soffer, P., 28 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Data and Information Quality. 15, 3, 29.
Why Work Around the Process? Analyzing Workarounds Through the Lens of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Soffer, P., Outmazgin, N., Hadar, I. & Tzafrir, S., Aug 2023, In: Business and Information Systems Engineering. 65, 4, p. 369-389 21 p.
Normalizing object-centric process logs by applying database principles, Kumar, A., Soffer, P. & Tsoury, A., May 2023, In: Information Systems. 115, 102196.
An Ontology-Driven Approach for Process-Aware Risk Propagation, Engelberg, G., Fumagalli, M., Kuboszek, A., Klein, D., Soffer, P. & Guizzardi, G., 27 Mar 2023, Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2023. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1742-1745 4 p. (Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing).
From Network Traffic Data to a Business-Level Event Log, Hadad, M., Engelberg, G. & Soffer, P., 2023, Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 24th International Conference, BPMDS 2023, and 28th International Conference, EMMSAD 2023, Proceedings. van der Aa, H., Bork, D., Proper, H. A. & Schmidt, R. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 60-75 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 479 LNBIP).
Preface of the Process Management in the AI Era in conjunction with IJCAI 2023, Fournier, F., Limonad, L., de Leoni, M., Guzzo, A., Marrella, A. & Soffer, P., 2023, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3569
From Automatic Workaround Detection to Process Improvement: A Case Study, Outmazgin, N., van der Waal, W., Beerepoot, I., Hadar, I., van de Weerd, I. & Soffer, P., 2023, Business Process Management Forum - BPM 2023 Forum, Proceedings. Di Francescomarino, C., Burattin, A., Janiesch, C. & Sadiq, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 372-390 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 490 LNBIP).
On the Semantics of Risk Propagation, Fumagalli, M., Engelberg, G., Sales, T. P., Oliveira, Í., Klein, D., Soffer, P., Baratella, R. & Guizzardi, G., 2023, Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World - 17th International Conference, RCIS 2023, Proceedings. Nurcan, S., Opdahl, A. L., Mouratidis, H. & Tsohou, A. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 69-86 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 476 LNBIP).
PEM4PPM: A Cognitive Perspective on the Process of Process Mining, Sorokina, E., Soffer, P., Hadar, I., Leron, U., Zerbato, F. & Weber, B., 2023, Business Process Management - 21st International Conference, BPM 2023, Proceedings. Di Francescomarino, C., Burattin, A., Janiesch, C. & Sadiq, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 465-481 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14159 LNCS).
Preface, Soffer, P. & Ruiz, M., 2023, In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 482, p. v-vi
An uncertainty-aware event log of network traffic, Engelberg, G., Hadad, M., Pegoraro, M., Soffer, P., Hadar, E. & van der Aalst, W. M. P., 2023, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3469, p. 67-71 5 p.
Special section of BPMDS’2020 business process management meets data, Soffer, P. & Nurcan, S., Jun 2022, In: Software and Systems Modeling. 21, 3, p. 843-845 3 p.
Process Mining Practices: Evidence from Interviews, Zerbato, F., Soffer, P. & Weber, B., 2022, Business Process Management - 20th International Conference, BPM 2022, Proceedings. Di Ciccio, C., Dijkman, R., del Río Ortega, A. & Rinderle-Ma, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 268-285 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13420 LNCS).
Message from the Program Chairs ICPM 2021, Di Ciccio, C., Di Francescomarino, C. & Soffer, P., 31 Oct 2021, In: Proceedings - 2021 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021. p. VIII
Preface, Nurcan, S. & Soffer, P., 2020, In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 387 LNBIP, p. v-vi
Who is behind the model? classifying modelers based on pragmatic model features, Burattin, A., Soffer, P., Fahland, D., Mendling, J., Reijers, H. A., Vanderfeesten, I., Weidlich, M. & Weber, B., 2018, Business Process Management - 16th International Conference, BPM 2018, Proceedings. Montali, M., Weber, I., Weske, M. & vom Brocke, J. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 322-338 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11080 LNCS).
Preface, Nurcan, S. & Soffer, P., 2016, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 9694, p. V-VI
CAiSE 2015 tutorials, Bider, I. & Soffer, P., 2015, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 9097, p. 519 1 p.
A Layered context model: a basis for customized treatment - a GDM patient case study, Fux, A., Peleg, M., Soffer, P. & Rigla, M., 2014.
Preface: 9th International workshop on business process intelligence (BPI 2013), van der Aalst, W., de Medeiros, A. K. A., Benatallah, B., Gaaloul, W., Greco, G., Grigori, D., Guzzo, A., Leyer, M., Mendling, J., Pastor, O., Popova, V., Reichert, M., Rosemann, M., Rozinat, A., Sacca, D., Soffer, P., Sperduti, A., Weigand, H. & Weske, M., 2014, In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 171 LNBIP, p. IX-XI
Preface, Sadiq, S., Soffer, P. & Völzer, H., 2014, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 8659 LNCS, p. V-VI
Standardization and Impact of Clinical Guidelines Personalization, Fux, A., Peleg, M., Soffer, P., Zolotov, S. & Karnieli, E., 2013.
Complementing business process verification by validity analysis: A theoretical and empirical evaluation, Soffer, P. & Kaner, M., 30 Sep 2012, Innovations in Database Design, Web Applications, and Information Systems Management. IGI Global, p. 265-288 24 p.
Eliciting knowledge for an ontology for personalizing medical decision-making, Fux, A., Peleg, M., Soffer, P., Quaglini, S. & Gabetta, M., 15 Mar 2012.
How Can Personal Context Improve Adherence to Clinical Guidelines, Fux, A., PELEG, M. & Soffer, P., 2012, Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care. Springer Verlag, 6 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9485).
How Does Personal Information Affect Clinical Decision Making? Eliciting Categories of Personal Context and Effects, Fux, A., Peleg, M. & Soffer, P., 2012, AMIA 2012, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. AMIA, p. 1741
Assigning ontological meaning to workflow nets, Soffer, P., Kaner, M. & Wand, Y., 31 Dec 2011, Cross-Disciplinary Models and Applications of Database Management: Advancing Approaches. IGI Global, p. 209-244 36 p.
Preface, Proper, E. & Soffer, P., 2010, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 592
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: Preface, Nurcan, S., Schmidt, R., Pnina, S. & Ukor, R., 2009, In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 29 LNBIP, p. V-VI
A goal-based approach for business process learning, Ghattas, J., Soffer, P. & Peleg, M., 2008, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 335, p. 76-85 10 p.
Business process flexibility in virtual organizations, Soffer, P. & Ghattas, J., 2006, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 236, p. 188-197 10 p.
Taxonomy of flexibility in business processes, Regev, G., Soffer, P. & Schmidt, R., 2006, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 236, p. 90-93 4 p.

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