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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
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Andrea Marrella Andreas Metzger Marco Montali Daniel Amyot Peter Fettke Artem Polyvyanyy Stefanie Rinderle-Ma Sebastian Sardi\~na Niek Tax Barbara Weber
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The pith

Business process management shifts to an agent-oriented model where autonomous agents perceive, reason, and act inside explicit process frames.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents Agentic Business Process Management as an extension of traditional BPM that treats software and human agents as the primary entities executing processes. It claims this marks a paradigm shift from automation-oriented views toward systems where autonomy is constrained and aligned through process awareness. Four capabilities—framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, and self-modification—are introduced as the means to keep agent goals aligned with organizational goals while allowing proactive behavior. The manifesto maps out architectural elements and research challenges at the intersection of BPM, AI, and multi-agent systems to guide practical development.

Core claim

APM systems require agents that support framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, and self-modification so that agents pursue organizational goals in a constrained yet proactive way inside explicit process frames, replacing the traditional process-centric abstraction with an agent-oriented one.

What carries the argument

The agent-oriented abstraction in which software and human agents serve as primary functional entities that perceive, reason, and act within explicit process frames.

If this is right

  • Process governance moves from fixed workflows to dynamic agent actions constrained by process frames.
  • Explainability becomes a required property of every agent decision within the process.
  • Agents gain the ability to modify their own behavior while remaining inside organizational process boundaries.
  • Conversational interfaces become the primary channel for directing and inspecting agent actions.
  • Research must advance jointly in BPM, AI, and multi-agent systems to realize the required capabilities.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Existing BPM tools will need redesign to expose process frames that agents can directly perceive and act upon.
  • New auditing mechanisms may emerge to verify that self-modifying agents stay within framed autonomy.
  • Organizations could test incremental rollout by equipping selected agents with subsets of the four capabilities first.

Load-bearing premise

The four capabilities of framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, and self-modification can be jointly realized and will align agent goals with organizational goals without creating new failure modes.

What would settle it

An operational APM deployment in which agents equipped with all four capabilities still produce repeated goal misalignment or new failure modes that traditional BPM systems avoid.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.18916 by Andrea Marrella, Andreas Metzger, Angelo Casciani, Artem Polyvyanyy, Barbara Weber, Daniel Amyot, Diego Calvanese, Emanuele La Malfa, Fabiana Fournier, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Lior Limonad, Marco Montali, Marlon Dumas, Niek Tax, Peter Fettke, Sebastian Sardi\~na, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Timotheus Kampik.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Conceptual architecture of an APM system depicting its key actors, components (boxes), and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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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 APM agents must support: framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, and self-modification. These capabilities jointly ensure that agents' goals are aligned with organizational goals and that agents behave in a framed yet proactive manner in pursuing those goals. We discuss the extent to which the capabilities can be realized and identify research challenges whose resolution requires further advances in BPM, AI, and multi-agent systems. The manifesto thus serves as a roadmap for bridging these communities and for guiding the development of APM systems in practice.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. This paper is a research manifesto proposing Agentic Business Process Management (APM) as an extension of traditional BPM. It claims a paradigm shift to an agent-oriented view in which software and human agents serve as primary entities that perceive, reason, and act inside explicit process frames. The manifesto defines four required capabilities for APM agents—framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, and self-modification—asserting that these jointly align agent goals with organizational goals while preserving proactive yet constrained behavior, and it maps open research challenges at the intersection of BPM, AI, and multi-agent systems.

Significance. If the proposed abstractions prove workable, the manifesto could supply a useful organizing framework for research that integrates autonomous agents into organizational process governance. Its main contribution is the explicit enumeration of capabilities and the framing of their joint realization as an open challenge rather than a solved result; this prospective stance is appropriate for a manifesto and avoids overclaiming.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the assertion that the four capabilities 'jointly ensure that agents' goals are aligned with organizational goals' is presented without any supporting derivation, model, or illustrative scenario showing necessity or sufficiency; while the text later treats realization as an open question, this phrasing is load-bearing for the central thesis.
  2. [Introduction and core abstractions] The introduction and core abstractions section: the claimed paradigm shift from a 'traditional process view' to an 'agent-oriented abstraction' is not accompanied by a precise contrast with existing BPM literature on agent-based or goal-oriented process models, leaving the novelty and distinctiveness of the framing difficult to evaluate.
minor comments (3)
  1. The manuscript would benefit from one or two concrete, even hypothetical, use-case sketches that show how the four capabilities interact in a single process instance.
  2. Terms such as 'process frames' and 'conversational actionability' are introduced without explicit definitions or pointers to related formalisms in the BPM or agent literature.
  3. The discussion of research challenges would be strengthened by indicating which challenges are primarily BPM problems, which are AI problems, and which require joint advances.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manifesto. The comments highlight opportunities to strengthen the presentation of our core claims and positioning relative to prior work. We address each point below and will incorporate revisions in the next version of the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the assertion that the four capabilities 'jointly ensure that agents' goals are aligned with organizational goals' is presented without any supporting derivation, model, or illustrative scenario showing necessity or sufficiency; while the text later treats realization as an open question, this phrasing is load-bearing for the central thesis.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract's phrasing risks implying a completed proof rather than a proposed framework. In the revision we will reword the abstract to state that the four capabilities are designed to jointly support alignment of agent goals with organizational objectives, while making explicit that their integrated realization remains an open research challenge (as already detailed in Sections 4 and 5). This preserves the manifesto's forward-looking character without overstating current results. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Introduction and core abstractions] The introduction and core abstractions section: the claimed paradigm shift from a 'traditional process view' to an 'agent-oriented abstraction' is not accompanied by a precise contrast with existing BPM literature on agent-based or goal-oriented process models, leaving the novelty and distinctiveness of the framing difficult to evaluate.

    Authors: We accept that a sharper differentiation is needed. The revised introduction will include a new paragraph (or short subsection) that explicitly contrasts our agent-oriented abstraction—centered on framed autonomy inside explicit process frames—with prior agent-based BPM approaches, goal-oriented process modeling, and related frameworks in the BPM literature. We will cite representative works to clarify the distinct emphasis on the joint realization of the four capabilities as an organizing principle. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in definitional manifesto

full rationale

The paper is a research manifesto introducing APM as a conceptual extension of BPM, driven by process awareness and agent-oriented abstraction. It enumerates four capabilities (framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, self-modification) as necessary elements for goal alignment but presents their joint realization explicitly as an open research challenge rather than a derived or proven result. No equations, formal derivations, predictions, fitted parameters, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The argument is prospective and definitional, with no reduction of claims to inputs by construction. This is the expected outcome for a manifesto without technical derivations.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The manifesto rests on domain assumptions about agent capabilities and the sufficiency of process frames for alignment; no free parameters or invented physical entities are introduced.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Autonomous agents can be made to perceive, reason, and act within explicit process frames while remaining aligned with organizational goals.
    Stated in the abstract and introduction as the foundational premise of APM.
  • ad hoc to paper The four capabilities (framed autonomy, explainability, conversational actionability, self-modification) are jointly necessary and sufficient for practical APM systems.
    Introduced as the core requirements without independent justification or prior literature citation establishing sufficiency.
invented entities (1)
  • APM agent no independent evidence
    purpose: Primary functional entity that perceives, reasons, and acts inside process frames
    New abstraction introduced to replace traditional process-centric views; no independent evidence supplied beyond the manifesto itself.

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