TweetMy favorite BPM conference of the year, the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, is coming up in less than three weeks, on September 13-16. In the past, this has primarily been an academic conference where BPM researchers present their ongoing research, and this year they are adding industry case studies, tutorials, keynotes and [...]
TweetIt’s been a quiet summer for travel – I haven’t been on a plane since June – but my fall travel schedule awaits: September 13-16 is BPM 2010, the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, which is the academic BPM conference that I’ve attended in Germany and Italy the past two years. This year, [...]
Tweet I’ve previously extolled the benefits of attending the annual international research conference on BPM, and for those of you in North America who just weren’t ready to shell out for a trip to Europe, you’re in luck: it’s coming to Stevens Institute in New Jersey in September. Although this has always been an academic [...]
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 [...]
TweetI love technology more as it gets smaller. I haven’t been travelling much this year, but the next two months will change that. For the first time in years, however, I’ll be carrying only my suitcase (a roll-aboard that fits in the overhead bin) and my handbag: no computer bag. That’s because I am the [...]
TweetLast year, I attended BPM 2008, an international conference that brings together academics, researchers and practitioners to take a rather academic look at what is happening in BPM research. This is important to those of us who work daily with BPM systems, since some of this research will be finding its way into products over [...]
TweetEarlier this year, I went to Milan for the International BPM conference for a look at the academic side of BPM conferences, and was completely won over: in my coverage, I highly recommended that BPM vendors send someone from their architecture/design team to listen in on the BPM research that is being done in the [...]
TweetThe fall conference season has kicked off, and I’ve already had the pleasure of attending 3 BPM conferences: the International BPM conference (academic), Appian’s first user conference (vendor), and the Gartner BPM summit (analyst). It’s rare to have 3 such different conferences crammed into 2 weeks, so I’ll sum up some of the differences that [...]
TweetPeter 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 [...]
TweetWe 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 [...]
TweetRemco 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 [...]
TweetJochen 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 [...]
TweetThe 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
TweetJan 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 [...]
TweetKsenia 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 [...]
TweetMichael 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 [...]
TweetThere 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 [...]
TweetJussi Vanhatalo of the IBM Zurich Research Lab presented a paper on the Refined Process Structure Tree, co-authored by Hagen Voelzer and Jana Koehler. We’re in the last section of the day, on formal methods. The research looks at the issues of parsing a business process model, and they offer a new parsing technique called [...]
TweetTodor Stoitsev of SAP Research presented the last of the flexibility and user interaction papers, From Personal Task Management to End User Driven Business Process Modeling. This is based on research about end-user development, but posits that BPMN is not appropriate for end users to work with directly for ad hoc process modeling. There is [...]
