A new milestone in the ÖST project is reached. The prototyping of the emergency phone service in
YAWL is now completed.
The work with the prototype was mainly carried out during October-November and
David Truffet's visit at DSV.
The prototype is developed in
YAWL. It demonstrates how a workflow…
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Added by petiawohed on December 21, 2009 at 10:30am —
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During November 2009 David Truffet visited the
Information Systems laboratory at DSV for four weeks. David completed his PhD at
University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane some years ago and has worked since this with projects at the local government in Australia. I met him when visiting
the BPM group at QUT last July. We we…
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Recently I returned from a two months long visit at the
BPM group at
QUT in Brisbane, Australia.
During the time at QUT:
- I worked on the YAWL-demo for the ÖST-project, implementing the emergency telephone application and installation process. I implemented a couple of
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Today, Paul, Birger, Martin and I submitted a project application to the Swedish Research Council.
Abstract:
Software support for well structured business processes is today provided through workflow technology
and process management tools. Tailored to support well structured processes, these tools do not provide
adequate support for loosely structured work activities such as knowledge intensive processes. This type of work
is heavily reliant on professional knowledge, deals with large amounts…
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Last week
Dr. Chun Ouyang from the
BPM group at
QUT visited us. She used the opportunity to stop over in Stockholm after her conference trip to the…
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Today I gave a presentation of the Informations Systems group at ICT school at KTH to two guests from Khalifa University in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates:
Dr. Ali Al-Qayedi and Mr. Salah Al Akbaru.
The slides from the presentation can be found
here. They are based on material produced by Lars Asker, Magnus Boman, Mats Danielson, Paul Joh…
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Last week John Mettraux from
Macnica, Yokohama, visited us at DSV. John is the man behind one of the leading open source workflow managemetn systems, called OpenWFE. OpenWFE was also one of the first open source proje…
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Today I returned from a conference trip to the
Business Process Management (BPM) conference, which was held 1-4 of September 2008 in Milan, Italy.

On the 1st of Sept. I gave a presentation on the workshop…
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I have just returned from a six weeks visit at the
BPM group at QUT, where I was invited by Dr Chun Ouyang.
During my stay I worked on:
1) A revision of our report on open source tools evaluation with the workflow patterns. The extended and updated version of the paper is available
here;
2) A book chapter on open source workflow management systems.
At QUT, I attended the following presentatio…
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Last Sunday I left Stockholm for a six weeks long visit of the
BPM group at
QUT (Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane, Australia. On my way to Brisbane I stopped for a couple of d…
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I torsdags 29 maj besökte Peter Tallungs,
Objectware, oss på DSV och gav en presentation om informationsmodellering. "Informationsmodellering har en nyckelroll inom verksamhets- och systemutveckling, men är trots det en till stora delar bortglömd och outvecklad konst." (säger Peter)
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Last Thursday, 25th of April 2008, Dr.
Guido Governatori from
University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia, visited DSV. Guido gave a presentation on Compliance Checking between Business Process and Business Contracts.
Abstract: It is a typical scenario that many organisations have their business processes specified independently of their business contracts. This is because of the lack of guidelines and…
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Today Paul, Martin Henkel, Birger, and myself submitted a project proposal to the Swedish Research Council.
Title: Service Oriented Systems Architecture for Knowledge Intensive Processes
Abstract: Software support for well structured business processes is today
provided through workflow technology and process management tools. Tailored to
support well structured processes, these tools provide only poor support for loosely
structured work activities such as knowledge intensive pro…
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Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Management, Workflow Management Systems and Process Aware Information Systems are a few concepts circulating around during the last decade and denoting a special kind of information systems or activities relevant for their development and utilization. These concepts address the intersection of the Information Systems and Business Management areas. As in any young discipline, this area suffers from a terminologi
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Added by petiawohed on January 28, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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In December 2007 we established a contact with
Tibco, Sweden.
On 3rd of December, we had a meeting with:
Mark Rattley - Vice President UKI, Nordics & MEA Region,
Jan Hygstedt - Country Manager Nordics, and
Mårten Nilsson - Solution Architect;
all representatives from Tibco. From DSV Prof. Paul Johannesson, Birger Anderson, Michael Persson and myself attended the meeting. I gave a brief presentation of DSV and Paul introduce…
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The work on patterns-based evaluation of three major open source workflow management systems was finalized in December 2007. The evaluated systems are:
All three systems are written in Java. Paul Harmon outlines them, in his…
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Last week of November 2007, I visited Nick Russell and Prof.
Wil van der Aalst at
Technical University of Eindhoven (TUE), in The Netherlands.
During my visit we worked on summarising the results from our work on patterns-based evaluation of open source systems and presenting them in a paper, which we submitted to the…
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During the period 20th-26th of September 2007, Nick Russell from TUE visited us at DSV. Nick wrote his PhD thesis within the Business Process Management group (BPM) at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University
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Last week A/Prof Arthur ter Hofstede from QUT visited us at DSV. Arthur is co-leader of the Business Process Management group (BPM) at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of
Technology (QUT) in Brisbane,
Australia.
Together with Prof.
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Today 23 May 2007, I am flying back to Stockholm after a four weeks trip to Brisbane, Australia and an informal visit to the BPM group at QUT. During my stay in Brisbane I cooperated with A/Prof. Arthur ter
Hofstede and Nick Russell on a deep analysis of OpenWFE, which is one of the
mainstream open-source workflow management systems (WFMSs). We also briefly discussed
an initial a
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