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Prof. Dr rer. nat. Stefan Schönig

Research topics

  • Business Process Management (Modeling, Execution, Mining)
  • IoT-aware Business Processes Management (e.g. Industrial IoT Processes, Location-aware Processes)
  • Process-oriented Cyber Security Management
  • Cyber Security Compliance in Industrial IoT

Awards

  • Best Paper Runner-Up at the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2023)
  • Business Process Innovation Award (BPM 2019)
  • Best Paper Award, Int. Workshop on Emerging Computing Paradigms and Context in Business Process Management (CCBPM 2018)
  • Best Paper Award, Int. Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2018)
  • Best Paper Award, 11th Int. Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2015)
  • T-Systems Innovation Award (2012)

CV

Stefan Schönig received both the Master degree (with honors) in Applied Computer Science (Engineering/Computer Science) and the doctoral degree from University of Bayreuth. He was post doctoral researcher with the Institute for Information Business at Vienna University of Economics and Business (Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling) and held a position as a tenured assistant professor at University of Bayreuth (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jablonski). Currently, he is Full Professor and Head of the Chair for Process-based Information Systems with the Department of Information Systems at University of Regensburg in Germany. He has an established background in Business Process Management, Process Mining and Process-based Cyber Security Management and has been working in this field for over 14 years. He has participated in several industry projects that addressed digital process management and IT/IoT security. He published extensively in the research area of Business Process Management and Information Systems, both in international conferences and journals. He serves in several international conference program committees.

Publications

  • Poss, Leo, Kern, Christopher Julian, Stoiber, Christoph, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan. "Measuring Moral Performance: A Framework for Ethical Business Process Management".
    Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.  (2026) pp. 117—132. ISBN 978-3-032-02936-2. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02936-2_10
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "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,  (2026)  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15538-2_31
  • Kölbel, Linda, Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "Context is Key for Cybersecurity: Leveraging External Knowledge for Process Model Explanation via LLMs".
    International Journal of Information Security,  (2026)  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-026-01245-x
  • Kölbel, Linda, Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "A Unified Security Requirements Catalog for the Industrial IoT".
    Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) 2026,  (2026)
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "Market-Based Process Coordination: Trading Routing Efficiency for Schedule Stability in Volatile Field Operations".
    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE, 2026,  (2026)
  • Poss, Leo, Kern, Christopher Julian, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan. "The Ethical Risk Handover: Operationalizing Normative Intent in BPM via Large Language Models".
      (2026)
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "The Operational Perspective in Business Process Management: Towards Holistic Task Execution Support".
    Information Systems and e-Business Management,  (2026)
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "From Model to Execution: A Formal Foundation for Managing Materials and Tools in Executable BPMN".
    Business Process Management Journal, Emerald,  (2026)  https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-11-2025-1809
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "Location-aware business process modeling and execution".
    Softw. Syst. Model., vol. 24, no. 1,  (2025) pp. 37—67. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S10270-024-01224-7
  • Kern, Christopher Julian, Hübner, Karin, Poss, Leo, Schönig, Stefan and Kroenung, Julia. "The Role of Ethics in Requirements Engineering for Developing Information Systems".
    vol. 547, Springer,  (2025) pp. 226—242. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92474-3_14
  • Hornsteiner, Markus, Kölbel, Linda, Oberhofer, Daniel and Schönig, Stefan. "A Reflection on Process-Oriented Industrial IoT Security Management".
    SCITEPRESS,  (2025) pp. 242—253. https://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0013163500003899
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "Formalizing the operational perspective in BPM: an ontology-based approach for tool integration".
    Business Process Management Journal, Emerald,  (2025)  https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-10-2024-0930
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "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.,  (2025)
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "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,  (2025)  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40747-026-02253-z
  • Poss, Leo, Kern, Christopher Julian, Stoiber, Christoph, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan. "Measuring Moral Performance: A Framework for Ethical Business Process Management".
    Springer Nature Switzerland,  (2025) pp. 117—132. ISBN 9783032029362. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02936-2_10
  • Kern, Christopher Julian, Hübner, Karin, Poss, Leo, Schönig, Stefan and Kroenung, Julia. "The Role of Ethics in Requirements Engineering for Developing Information Systems".
    Springer Nature Switzerland,  (2025) pp. 226—242. ISBN 9783031924743. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92474-3_14
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "One Engine to Rule Them All: Executing Declarative Processes with CEP".
      (2025)
  • Poss, Leo and Schönig, Stefan. "Formalizing the Operational Perspective in BPM: An Ontology-Based Approach for Tool Integration".
    Business Process Management Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Emerald,  (2025) pp. 679—709. https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-10-2024-0930
  • Kern, Christopher Julian, Poss, Leo, Kroenung, Julia and Schönig, Stefan. "Navigating the moral maze: a literature review of ethical values in business process management".
    Bus. Process. Manag. J., vol. 30, no. 8,  (2024) pp. 343—370. https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-06-2024-0504
  • Ackermann, Lars, Käppel, Martin, Marcus, Laura, Moder, Linda, Dunzer, Sebastian, Hornsteiner, Markus, Liessmann, Annina, Zisgen, Yorck, Empl, Philip, Herm, Lukas-Valentin, Neis, Nicolas, Neuberger, Julian, Poss, Leo, Schaschek, Myriam, Weinzierl, Sven, Wördehoff, Niklas, Jablonski, Stefan, Koschmider, Agnes, Kratsch, Wolfgang, Matzner, Martin, Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie, Röglinger, Maximilian, Schönig, Stefan and Winkelmann, Axel. "Recent Advances in Data-Driven Business Process Management".
    CoRR, vol. abs/2406.01786,  (2024)  https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2406.01786
  • Hornsteiner, Markus, Kreussel, Michael, Steindl, Christoph, Ebner, Fabian, Empl, Philip and Schönig, Stefan. "Real-Time Text-to-Cypher Query Generation with Large Language Models for Graph Databases".
    Future Internet, vol. 16, no. 12,  (2024) pp. 438. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/FI16120438
  • Hornsteiner, Markus, Empl, Philip, Bunghardt, Timo and Schönig, Stefan. "Reading between the Lines: Process Mining on OPC UA Network Data".
    Sensors, vol. 24, no. 14,  (2024) pp. 4497. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/S24144497
  • Oberhofer, Daniel, Hornsteiner, Markus and Schönig, Stefan. "Process-Aware Security Standard Compliance Monitoring and Verification for the IIoT".
      (2024)
  • Kölbel, Linda, Hornsteiner, Markus and Schönig, Stefan. "Guideline for Manual Process Discovery in Industrial IoT".
    CoRR, vol. abs/2410.11915,  (2024)  https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.11915
  • Schönig, Stefan and Jablonski, Stefan. "Digitales Prozessmanagement: Eine Reflexion aus praktischer Sicht zur Förderung des Austauschs zwischen Forschung und Praxis".
    HMD Prax. Wirtsch., vol. 61, no. 5,  (2024) pp. 1348—1365. https://dx.doi.org/10.1365/S40702-024-01057-4

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