TweetThe past couple of years, I’ve been attending the academic/research BPM conference – BPM 2008 in Milan, BPM 2009 in Ulm – where BPM researchers from corporate research facilities and universities present papers and findings all about BPM. This is BPM of the future, and if you’re interested in where BPM is going, you should [...]
Tagged BPM2010TweetAnother great BPM conference: as with last year, I was impressed with the quality of the papers and the amount of interesting research going on. The logistics here have also been excellent: everything well organized and executed, including someone in a “BPM2009 team” shirt meeting a group of us at the bus stop the first [...]
TweetChen Li of University of Twente gave the last presentation of the conference on process variant mining. We heard yesterday in the tutorial on flexibility about process variants; one issue with process variants is that there needs to be some way to identify which of the variants are important enough to update the original process [...]
TweetIn the first of two papers in the final session of the conference, Josep Carmona of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya presented on process mining calculation strategies. The theory of regions shows how to derive a Petri net representation of a process model from the process log, which shows the transition between states, but it’s very [...]
TweetDiogo Ferriera of Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa presented a paper on process discovery based on unlabelled event logs: where the events in the log are only identified by the specific task, not by the process instance. Consider that a process instance may be executed via multiple paths through the process model, resulting in a different [...]
TweetManfred Reichert of Ulm University and Barbara Weber of University of Innsbruck presented a tutorial on the challenges, paradigms and technologies involved in enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems (PAIS). Process flexibility is important, but you have to consider both build time flexibility (how to quickly implement and configure new processes) and run time flexibility [...]
TweetHagen Völzer from IBM Research in Zurich – and a member of the BPMN standards group – gave a tutorial on BPMN 2.0, with a specific focus on the new execution semantics. BPMN 1.1 has taken us a long way towards a standardized process modeling notation, but has several shortcomings: no standardized execution semantics, no [...]
TweetJohn Hoogland, CEO of Pallas Athena, gave the opening keynote this morning, discussing how BPM has changed since the early days of workflow and painfully customized EAI to today’s landscape of BPM and SOA. He also contrasted what he sees as the old style of assembly line-style control flow unique to US and UK companies, [...]
TweetI know that a few people had a problem with the link to the 7PMG paper that I referenced in a post earlier today; here’s an updated link to a pre-press version sent to me by Hajo Reijers, one of the authors, which also includes guidance on how to prioritize the guidelines. Enjoy!
TweetI attended the session on managing processes in the afternoon: this is a standard session made up of the presentation of three papers. Extending BPM Environments of your choice with performance related Decision Support, by Mathias Fritzsche, Michael Picht, Wasif Gilani, Ivor Spence, John Brown and Peter Kilpatrick. The focus was on annotation of processes [...]
TweetFor the second half of the morning, I elected to attend a tutorial on a human view of process model comprehension by Jan Mendling of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Hajo Reijers of Eindhoven University of Technology. Obviously a lot of other people are interested too, since we had to move to a much larger room [...]
TweetYesterday was a great day of workshops here at BPM2009 in Ulm, Germany, and today is the start of the conference proper. After some introduction, we heard from Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer of IDS Scheer (recently acquired by Software AG); I’ve heard Dr. Scheer speak at ARIS ProcessWorld in 2007 and 2008, and I was curious [...]
TweetBen Jennings of University College London had the last presentation slot of the day, wherein he classified a duck using both hierarchical classification and protoype theory. He was successful using both methods, although identified the inherent flaws in hierarchical classification. The point, however, is about the nature of classification systems: hierarchical classification systems can lead [...]
TweetMichael Prilla of Ruhr University of Bochum presented his research on integrating process models into knowledge management system content, using social tagging as a semantic layer for heterogeneous content, with the goal to disseminate process models to foster feedback from users that results in process improvement. Typically within an organization, process models are used by [...]
TweetAxel Kieninger of the Universitat Karlsruhe had the first presentation after lunch, discussing processes for service creators and consumers (or prosumers) to collaboratively co-create services in order to raise the value of the services to the consumer. There are a number of barriers to collaboration, primarily those of cultural differences and specialized or standards tools/notation. [...]
TweetGiorgio Bruno of Politecnico di Torino presented a paper on requirements elicitation as a social process. First, he covered the distinction between business processes – an emphasis on control flow, with the process distributing work to the participants – and social processes – where participants perform actions in a shared space, and including the participants, [...]
TweetNext up was a presentation by Marcello Sarini, a computer scientist from the psychology department of University of Milano-Bicocca, discussing the socio-psychological perspective on process management. Processes that involve human tasks inherently are about interactions between people, which falls under the area of social psychology and the resulting theories of human social behavior. They performed a [...]
TweetThree years ago, I gave a presentation entitled “Web 2.0 and BPM” at the BPMG conference in London, in which I said that the future of BPM and Web 2.0 (or what we would now call social software) will include tagging of process instances. Today, I saw some research that includes exactly that functionality, as [...]
TweetRania Khalaf of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center presented a paper on enabling community participation for workflows through extensibility and sharing, specifically within a hosted BPM system. She is focused on three areas of collaboration: extension activities (services), collaborative workflow modeling, and collaboration on executing workflow instances. There are two key aspects to this: method [...]
TweetI’m back at this year’s edition of what was probably my favorite conference last year: BPM2009 in Ulm, Germany. This is primarily attended by academics and institutional researchers, and the format is as an academic conference, where each presentation is based on a research paper. This first day is devoted to workshops, and I’m attending [...]
