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Best Industrial Paper Award at BPM 2007 |
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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Last week I attended the 5th International
Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) in Brisbane, Australia.
The conference was well organized by the BPM group at QUT and was very
interesting.
At Monday, I attended the Business Process Design workshop,
where I met Stefan Jablonski, who held the key note. It seems that we have
quite similar research interests regarding customization of process models.
The main conference was taking place on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. I presented my paper BPM on top of SOA: Experiences from the
Financial Industry the first day. At Wednesday, I received the Best Industy
Paper Award for my paper, which was a really nice surprise. The paper had won over
13 other industrial papers and was further ranked number 8 out of the 152 paper
submissions of where 22 was accepted at the conference.
The last day, I attended the BPM governance workshop.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 05 October 2007 )
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Experimenting with customizing modeling tools |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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I have trough the summer experimented with EMF, GMF and OpenArchitectureWare to create a domain specific tool chain to support model driven development of business processes. The experiments are very promising and I have decided not to continue my work on the ADWorkbench, i.e. ADModeler, ADSpecialiser and ADTransformer.
ADWorkbench implements some very interesting ideas, but it is an early prototype. It is build on UML, EMF and GEF, and I have used much time understanding and implementing low level editor functionality in GEF.
Therefore it was (after some initial pain) a relief to get to know GMF (Graphical Modeling Framework), which I have used to model and generate 3 different domain specific editors for Danske Bank. I further started to use Rational Software Architect to model my meta models in UML and export them as UML2 to eclipsse, where I used them as basis for EMF generation. I have used OpenArchitectureWare as the transformation framework, and it is a powerful framework which has helped me a lot.
I now have a working prototype that provides a business process modeling editor, additional editors to model complementary models, and tranformations to generate BPEL code. Further, I succeded to create a tool that is able to persist introduced manual changes in generated models. This is very prowerful as changes in higher level models will not override manual changes in lower level models.
Overall, I am very satiesfied with the experiements, and I will start to write a technical report about them, which hopefully will find its way to an article. I have also started to look for a suitable case to test my tools against.
I will write more about the above, when I make more progress, and I will put out a live demo of the tools.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )
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Paper accepted at Groups 2007 |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
In July I got a nice email with an acceptance of my paper
"A Story of a Working Workflow Management System" which I have
written with my 2. supervisor Kjeld Schmidt at the Groups 2007 conference in Florida in November. The
conference is a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference and will
have a completely different audience than what I am used to.
This paper is about the same empirical study as the BPM2007
paper, but takes a completely other angle at the study. The paper describes the
success of the workflow system seen from the perspective of the backoffice
workers and how they have accepted the new way of working with automated
coordination of their work. Based on these experiences, it further outline
technical issues with current workflow technology.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )
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