Leon Bein, M.Sc.

About

Doctoral candidate at the Information Systems chair, School of Computation Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich. Joined the research group in April 2023.

Research Interests

I am researching how semantic technologies, such as Knowledge Graphs, can be integrated into Business Process Technology in order to provide interpretable and grounded process execution support based on jointly encoded process and domain knowledge.

My further research interests include:

• (Intelligent) Process Automation
• Business Process Simulation
• Software Engineering

Publications

• Bein, L., & Pufahl, L. (2024). Knowledge Graphs: A Key Technology for Explainable Knowledge-Aware Process Automation?. In International Conference on Business Process Management (pp. 18-30). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Klessascheck, F., Bein, L., Haase, J., & Pufahl, L. (2024). A Critical Investigation of Rationalities in Automation with BPM. In 2024 26th International Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) (pp. 30-39). IEEE.
• Klessascheck, F., Bein, L., & Pufahl, L. (2024). Simulating Environmental Impacts of Business Processes with SimuBridge and the SOPA Framework. In Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2024 at the International Conference on Process Mining 2024 co-located with the 6th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2024)
• Leon, B., Klessascheck, F., Nepeina, S., Warmuth, C., Kampik, T., & Pufahl, L. (2023). SimuBridge: Discovery and Management of Process Simulation Scenarios. In BPM (Demos/Resources Forum) (pp. 77-81).
• Bein, L. (2023). Student Research Abstract: Why and Where Software Developers are (not) using Project Data in Agile Retrospectives. In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 1060-1063).
• Andree, K., Bein, L., König, M., Mandel, C., Rosenau, M., Terboven, C., ... & Weske, M. (2023). Design-Time Support for Fragment-Based Case Management. In Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2022 International Workshops, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 231-242). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Andree, K., Bein, L., König, M., Mandel, C., Rosenau, M., Terboven, C., ... & Weske, M. (2022). fcm-js: A Tool for Design-Time Support of Fragment-Based Case Management. In Proceedings of the Demonstration & Resources Track, Best BPM Dissertation Award, and Doctoral Consortium at BPM 2022 co-located with the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022. CEUR workshop proceedings.
• König, M., Bein, L., Nikaj, A., & Weske, M. (2020). Integrating robotic process automation into business process management. In Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum: BPM 2020 Blockchain and RPA Forum, Seville, Spain, September 13–18, 2020, Proceedings 18 (pp. 132-146). Springer International Publishing.

Reviews

Leon has served as a (sub)reviewer for various conferences:

• International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE)
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
• International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations and Computing (EDOC)
• International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER)
• Conference on Information and Communication Technologies of Ecuador (TICEC)

Thesis Supervision

I am offering thesis topics related to the integration of semantic technologies, primarily Knowledge Graphs, into business process execution support. 
Generally, these relate to (i) extracting process knowledge from sources such as event logs and text, (ii) encoding process knowledge using semantic technologies, and (iii) using encoded knowledge for process execution support, such as decision support and process intelligence.
I offer more technical topics, with the option to work with and extend our prototype knowledge-graph-based business process management system KARIBDIS, as well as some more theoretical ones relating to the kinds and nature of process knowledge.

Have a look at the chair theses page for concrete topic inspiration and for more information on the thesis application process at our chair.