Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto
Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Marlon Dumas, Fabiana Fournier, Timotheus Kampik, Emanuele La Malfa, Lior Limonad, Andrea Marrella, Andreas Metzger, Marco Montali, Daniel Amyot, Peter Fettke, Artem Polyvyanyy, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Sebastian Sardi\~na

TL;DR
This paper introduces Agentic Business Process Management (APM), a new paradigm that integrates autonomous agents into business processes, emphasizing process awareness, explainability, and goal alignment.
Contribution
It defines the conceptual foundations, core abstractions, and architectural elements of APM, proposing a roadmap for future research and practical development.
Findings
Introduces four key capabilities for APM agents: framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, self-modification.
Highlights the need for advances in BPM, AI, and multi-agent systems to realize APM.
Serves as a research manifesto and practical roadmap for integrating autonomous agents into BPM.
Abstract
This paper presents a manifesto that articulates the conceptual foundations of Agentic Business Process Management (APM), an extension of Business Process Management (BPM) for governing autonomous agents executing processes in organizations. From a management perspective, APM represents a paradigm shift from the traditional process view of the business process, driven by the realization of process awareness and an agent-oriented abstraction, where software and human agents act as primary functional entities that perceive, reason, and act within explicit process frames. This perspective marks a shift from traditional, automation-oriented BPM toward systems in which autonomy is constrained, aligned, and made operational through process awareness. We introduce the core abstractions and architectural elements required to realize APM systems and elaborate on four key capabilities that such…
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