Peter Dadam of University of Ulm opened the last day of the conference (and my last session, since I’m headed out at the morning break) with a keynote on the future of BPM: Flyin with the Eagles, or Scratching with the Chickens? He went through some of his history in getting into research (in the … Continue reading “BPM Milan: The Future of BPM”
We finished the day with a panel on Managing Process Variability and Compliance in the Enterprise – An Opportunity Not To Be Missed, or a Fools Errand? This was moderated by Heiko Ludwig & Chris Ward of IBM Research, and included Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Schahram Dustdar of Vienna University of Technology, Jyoti Bhat … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Managing Process Variability and Compliance”
Remco Dijkman of the Technical of Technology of Eindhoven presented a paper on Diagnosing Differences between Business Process Models, focusing on behavioral differences rather than the structural differences that were examined in the previous paper by IBM. The problem is the same: there are two process models, likely two versions of the same model, and … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Diagnosing Differences between Business Process Models”
Jochen Kuester of IBM Zurich Research presented a paper on Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences in the Absence of a Change Log, co-authored by Christian Gerth, Alexander Foerster and Gregor Engels. Detecting differences would be done in the case where a process model is changed, and there is a need to detect and resolve … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences”
The afternoon started with the section on Quantitative Analysis, beginning with a presentation by Anne Rozinat from the Technical University of Eindhoven on Workfow Simulation for Operational Decision Support Using Design, Historic and State Information, with the paper co-authored by Moe Wynn, Wil van der Aalst, Arthur ter Hofstede and Colin Fidge. As she points … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Workflow Simulation for Operational Decision Support”
Xiao Liu from Swinburne University of Technology presented his paper on A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows, co-authored by Jinjun Chen and Yun Yang. This is motivated by the problem of using only a few overall user-specified temporal constraints on a process without considering system performance and issues of local fine-grained … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows”
Jan Mendling of Queensland University of Technology presented a paper on Instantiation Semantics for Process Models, co-authored with Gero Decker of HPI Potsdam. Their main focus was on determining the soundness of process models, particularly based on the entry points to processes. They considered six different process notations and syntax: open workflow nets, YAWL, event-driven … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Instantiation Semantics for Process Models”
Ksenia Wahler of the IBM Zurich Research lab presented the first paper in the Modelling Paradigms & Issues section, on Predicting Coupling of Object-Centric Business Process Implementations, co-authored by Jochen Kuester. Although activity-centric approaches are in the mainstream — e.g., BPMN for modeling and BPEL for implementation — object-centric approaches are emerging. The main principles … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Predicting Coupling of Object-Centric Business Process Implementations”
Michael Rosemann from the BPM Research Group at Queensland University of Technology, gave us today’s opening keynote on Understanding and Impacting the Practice of BPM, exploring the link between academia and industry. QUT hosted this conference last year, and has a strong BPM program. He believes that research can be both rigorous and relevant, satisfying … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Michael Rosemann keynote”
There were two other papers presented in the Formal Methods section — Covering Places and Transitions in Open Nets by Christian Stahl and Karsten Wolf, and Correcting Deadlocking Service Choreographies Using a Simulation-Based Graph Edit Distance by Niels Lohmann — but we were hip-deep in mathematical notation, graph theory, automata sets and Boolean forumlae (who … Continue reading “BPM Milan: Formal Methods and demos”
