It’s the last day at BPM 2012, and the morning keynote is by Steve White of IBM, a.k.a. “the father of BPMN”, discussing the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard and its future. He went through a quick history of the development of the standard from its beginnings in BPMI (now part of OMG) … Continue reading “BPM2012: Stephen White Keynote on BPMN”
I had a bit of blog fatigue earlier, but Keith Swenson blogged the session on process cloud concepts for case management that I attended but didn’t write about, and I’m back at it for the last set of papers for the day at BPM 2012, all with a focus on process mining. Repairing Process Models … Continue reading “BPM2012: Papers on Process Mining”
More from day 2 of BPM 2012. The Difficulty of Replacing an Inclusive OR-Join [link] Cédric Favre of IBM Research presented the first paper of the session on some of the difficulties in translation between different forms of process models. One specific problem is replacing an inclusive OR join from a language such as BPMN, … Continue reading “BPM2012: Papers on Process Model Analysis”
Day 2 of the conference tracks at BPM 2012 started with a keynote from Wil van der Aalst of Eindhoven University, describing ten years of BPM research on this 10th occasion of the International Conference on BPM. The conference started in Eindhoven in 2003, then moved to Potsdam in 2004, Nancy in 2005, Vienna in … Continue reading “BPM2012: Wil van der Aalst BPM Research Retrospective Keynote”
We had a session of three papers this afternoon at BPM 2012 on how BPM is applied in different environments. Event-Driven Manufacturing Process Management Approach [link] The first paper, presented by Antonio Estruch from Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, is on automated manufacturing, where several different information systems (SCADA/PLCs, MES, ERP systems) are all … Continue reading “BPM2012: Papers on BPM Applications”
It’s the first day of the 2012 conference on BPM research (yesterday we had the pre-conference workshops), and the first set of papers is on process quality. Tying Process Model Quality to the Modeling Process: The Impact of Structuring, Movement, and Speed [link to pdf paper] The first paper, presented by Jan Claes of Ghent … Continue reading “BPM2012: Papers on Process Quality”
In the last portion of the ACM workshop at BPM 2012, we had a couple of short non-research papers, the first of which was by Keith Swenson, in which he posits that BPMN is incompatible with ACM. He starts by saying that it’s not a critique of BPMN in particular, but of any two-dimensional flow … Continue reading “ACM Workshop at BPM2012: BPMN Smackdown by @swensonkeith”
The first part of the afternoon at the ACM workshop at BPM 2012 moved away from theory and research, and into actual implementations of ACM plus the emerging CMMN standard. Helle Frisak Sem of Computas presented a paper that she co-authored with her colleagues Steinar Carlsen and Gunnar John Coll, describing an ACM system that … Continue reading “ACM Workshop at BPM2012: ACM in Practice”
We heard two more papers in the morning, the first presented by Nicolas Mundbrod of Ulm University on system support for collaborative knowledge work (paper co-authored by Jens Kolb and Manfred Reichert). This is the first of the papers today that is starting to show some of the crossover with social software: they studied the … Continue reading “ACM Workshop at BPM2012: Supporting Collaborative Work”
It’s the first day of the annual research/academic conference on BPM, this year held in Tallinn, Estonia, and I’m attending the ACM workshop organized by Irina Rychkova of University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Ilia Bider of Stockholm University and IbisSoft, and Keith Swenson of Fujitsu. This is my fifth year at this conference, and I always … Continue reading “ACM Workshop at BPM2012: Systems Theory and Activity Modalities”
