Massimiliano de Leoni presented a paper on Visual Support for Work Assignment in Process-Aware Information Systems, co-authored by Wil van der Aalst and Arthur ter Hofstede. This is relevant for systems with worklists, where it may not be clear to the user which work item to select based on a variety of motivations. In most [...]
For the first of the paper in the session on Flexibility and User Interaction, Helen Schonenberg of Eindhoven University of Technology presented a paper on Supporting Flexible Processes Through Log-Based Recommendations, co-authored by Barbara Weber, Boudewijn van Dongen and Wil van der Aalst. This is related to the research on automated process mining (or process [...]
The last paper in this session, a case study on Model-Driven Business Transformation, was an industry paper presented by Juliane Siegeris of gematik GmbH, co-authored by Oliver Grasl. gematik provides IT services related to the implementation of German health cards and other healthcare applications, but the case study is their own internal business reorganization into [...]
The second paper in this section on modeling guidelines was a review of modularity in process models, by Hajo Reijers and Jan Mendling. This was focused on factors related to modeling, including methodology, language and tools, and how they affect model quality; the goal being to provide guidance to process modelers for creating better models. [...]
Thomas Gschwind of IBM Research Zurich presented a paper on applying patterns during process modeling, co-authored by Jana Koehler and Janette Wong. This research was motivated by their customer’s concern for the quality of process models, and their first prototype using IBM WebSphere Business Modeler shows that 10% of the modeling time can be saved, [...]
After a few brief introductions from the various conference organizers (in which we learned that next year’s conference is in Ulm, Germany), we had a keynote from Paul Harmon on the current state and future of BPM. It covered a lot of the past, too: from the origins of quality management and process improvement through [...]
This workshop is intended to be the starting point for collaborating on research in BPM and social software, and we wrapped up the day with a discussion of how the authors in the room can collaborate on a single paper to submit for journal publication, based on their existing research and the discussions that we [...]
Simone Happ from T-Systems Multimedia — the only other non-academic in the room — gave a presentation on Enterprise 2.0 initiatives that her company is seeing in practice. She started with some pretty general stuff on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, but moved on to some examples of how they are using wikis to manage/document [...]
Davide Rossi of Universita di Bologna presented a paper on Workflow Enactment in a Social Software Environment, co-authored with Fabio Vitali. Davide took me to task earlier today for not responding to his comment on post from last month: at least I know that someone here reads my blog. He started out discussing why enterprises [...]
Sami Jantunen of Lappeenranta University of Technology presented a paper on Utilizing Firm-hosted Online Communities in Software Product Business: A Dimensional View, co-authored by Kari Smolander. This is specifically related to online communities hosted by companies for business purposes, ranging from product development to business, and involving only internal resources or external and internal. These [...]
Selim Erol of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration presented the first paper of the afternoon, co-authored with Gustaf Neumann, on using wikis in an organizational context, in terms of which aspects may have influence on the success of the implementation. They have also developed a prototype of wiki-based editor for workflow definitions, [...]
Ben Jennings of University College London presented a paper on Digital Identity and Reputation in the Context of a Bounded Social Ecosystem, co-authored by Anthony Finkelstein. He started with a discussion about digital identity that reminded me briefly of Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation: using himself as an example, showing how he appears in different [...]
Michael Granitzer of Know-Centre Graz presented a paper on Automating Knowledge Transfer and Creation in Knowledge Intensive Business Processes, co-authored by Gisela Granitzer, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Andreas Rath also of Know-Center, Klaus Tochtermann of Graz Univeristy of Tecnology, and Wolfgang Groiss of m2n consulting (I know that I’m committing a big faux pas by rearranging the [...]
Agnes Koschmider of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Universitat Karlsruhe) presented the next paper on Social Software for Modeling Business Processes, co-authored by Minseok Song and Hajo Reijers of Eindhoven University. I’m transported back to 1981, sitting in a graph theory lecture in university: this is a graph theory approach to [...]
The first paper of the day was presented by Petia Wohed of the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences in Stockholm (a joint department between the University of Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Technology), also authored by Paul Johannesson and Birger Andersson, entitled “Business Process Management with Social Software Systems – a New Paradigm [...]
It’s a holiday weekend back home, and my birthday tomorrow, so some may consider it a bit weird that I’m spending this week away from my family in Milan at a BPM conference. However, I’ve been excited about attending this conference for months since it’s focused on the research that’s happening in the field of [...]
I’ve been sticking close to home for the summer, but my fall lineup is about to begin. So far, I’m definitely attending the following: Business Objects Influencer Summit and SAP SME Day, August 12-13, Boston. This is an analyst/press event, not a public conference, but I’ll be blogging from there. International Conference on BPM, September [...]
