Leo Poss studied Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Regensburg, the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and the Universidad de Huelva in Spain. His major field of study were Internet Business and IT-Security as well as Big Data approaches for Data and especially Text Mining. During his studies he gained academical experiences at the Chair of Statistics and Risk Management of the University Regensburg and professional experiences as fullstack developer during his time as a working student.
Since April 2022 Leo Poss is a research assistant in the TRADEmark (IoT-basiertes Daten- und Prozessmanagement im Handwerk) research project.
Research topics
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Context-awareness
- Location-based BPMN
- Responsible BPM (Ethics-aware BPM)
Funded Projects
Awards
- Best Paper Runner-Up at the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2023)
Publications
- Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2026) Orchestrating Cyber-Physical Operations with PRiME: A Passive Resource-integrated Modeling Extension for BPMN.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2025 Proceedings of theinternational conference on cooperative information systems (coopis) 2025.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15538-2_31 - Kölbel, Linda, Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2026) A Unified Security Requirements Catalog for the Industrial IoT.
Research Challenges in Information Science. - Kölbel, Linda, Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2026) Context is Key for Cybersecurity: Leveraging External Knowledge for Process Model Explanation via LLMs.
International Journal of Information Security - Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2026) Market-Based Process Coordination: Trading Routing Efficiency for Schedule Stability in Volatile Field Operations.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE. - Poss, Leo, Kern, Christopher Julian, Stoiber, Christoph, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan (2026) Measuring Moral Performance: A Framework for Ethical Business Process Management.
in: ER, Mahendrawathiand Gal, Avigdorand Grisold, Thomasand Santoro, Flaviaand Weske, Mathiasand Dijkman, Remco M.and Karastoyanova, Dimkaand Aysolmaz, Banuand Bandara, Wasanaand Revoredo, Kate (eds.) Business Process Management: Responsible BPM Forum, Process Technology Forum, Educators Forum. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 117—132. ISBN 978-3-032-02936-2.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02936-2_10 - Poss, Leo, Kern, Christopher Julian, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan (2026) The Ethical Risk Handover: Operationalizing Normative Intent in BPM via Large Language Models.
Research Challenges in Information Science. - Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2025) One Engine to Rule Them All: Executing Declarative Processes with CEP.
Proceedings of the Demonstration Track co-located with the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems 2025. - Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2025) Formalizing the operational perspective in BPM: an ontology-based approach for tool integration.
Business Process Management Journal Emerald
https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-10-2024-0930 - Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2025) Location-aware business process modeling and execution.
Softw. Syst. Model., 24 (1), 37—67.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S10270-024-01224-7 - Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan (2025) A Synergistic Engine Paradigm for Real-Time, Context-Aware Decision-Making: Integrating Declarative Processes and Event Streams.
Complex & Intelligent Systems Springer Science and Business Media LLC
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40747-026-02253-z
Leo Poss M. Sc.
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