Journal article
Agentic Business Process Management: A research manifesto
D Calvanese, A Casciani, G De Giacomo, M Dumas, F Fournier, T Kampik, EL Malfa, L Limonad, A Marrella, A Metzger, M Montali, D Amyot, P Fettke, A Polyvyanyy, S Rinderle-Ma, S Sardiña, N Tax, B Weber
Information Systems | Published : 2026
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 view on business processes. This shift is driven by the realization of process awareness by agent-oriented abstractions: software and human agents act as primary functional entities that perceive, reason, and act within explicit process frames. Thus, APM moves away from automation-oriented BPM towards systems in which autonomy is constrained, aligned, and made operational..
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