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My current research interests focus on the areas of workflow and electronic services.
Rapidly Locating Items in Distribution Networks with Process-Driven Nodes
DP0773012 ARC Discovery Grant
Colin Fidge
Arthur ter Hofstede
Marlon Dumas
Budget: AUD$290,000
Period: 2007-2009
Summary: Safety-critical product recalls are a major public health issue in Australia. Recent extortion attempts involving poisoning of chocolate bars, paracetamol tablets and biscuits have demonstrated the urgent need for improved ways of locating commercial products that have been released into the community. Existing product recall tools are effective only within regulated manufacturing and warehousing facilities. This project will develop novel techniques for locating items in large-scale distribution networks driven by complex logistic processes. The outcomes of the project will make it easier to rapidly and accurately pinpoint product locations outside controlled facilities, thus contributing to both cost savings and public safety.
Expressiveness Comparison and Interchange Facilitation between Business Process Execution Languages
ARC Discovery Grant
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Chief Investigator)
Marlon Dumas (Chief Investigator)
Wil M.P. van der Aalst (Partner Investigator)
Budget: AUD$240,000
Period: 2004-2006
Summary: Developments in the area of business process management are currently hindered by the plethora of diverse business process execution languages. This project will develop techniques for dealing with interoperability issues induced by this language heterogeneity. The project combines theoretical research, grounded in concurrency theory and workflow patterns, with pragmatic research focusing on languages supported by commercial tools. The outcome will be a framework for comparing the expressiveness of process execution languages and defining mappings between them. This will place Australia at the forefront of developments in business process management systems: a crucial technology in today's global, dynamic, and heterogeneous environments.
Next-Generation Reference Process Models
DP0665480: ARC Discovery Grant
Michael Rosemann
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
Marlon Dumas
Wil M.P. van der Aalst
Michael zur Muehlen
Budget: AUD$282,000 (2006: $110,000; 2007: $85,000; 2008: $87,000)
Period: 2006-2008
Summary: Business process modelling is a key tool for organisations striving to create efficiencies by leveraging their IT infrastructure. This project will develop techniques for increasing the productivity of business process analysts by allowing them to reuse as much as possible existing models rather than systematically desigining new ones from scratch. Specifically, the project will develop and validate a language for designing highly configurable process models. This language will enable superior approaches to business process modelling and hence smarter use of information. This will place Australia at the forefront of developments in business process management: a crucial technology in today's global, dynamic and heterogeneous environments.
Reconciling Activity-centric and Business Object-centric Approaches to Business Process Modelling
LP0562363: ARC Linkage Grant with SWS (Industry Partner)
Marlon Dumas
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
Adrian Iordachescu (Partner Investigator, SWS)
Jarka Sipka (Partner Investigator, SWS)
Budget: AUD$72,444 (2005: $12,074; 2006: $24,148; 2007: $24,148; 2008: $12,074)
Period: 2005-2008
Summary: Business process models are a fundamental instrument for analysing and automating the operations of organisations. At present, the space of business process modelling techniques is characterised by fragmentation with various approaches striking different tradeoffs. Two major families of approaches can be distinguished: activity-centric and business object- centric. These approaches correspond to complementary viewpoints. We see great potential in creating a level of integration between them. Accordingly, the project will investigate the relative expressiveness of these approaches, identify incompatibilities and synergies, and design model transformations. This will establish a foundation for next-generation business process modelling tools.
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
Professor Stuart Cunningham (Director) et al.
Arthur ter Hofstede (Chief Investigator)
Budget: AUD$7 million
Period: 2005-2010
Workflow Patterns and Beyond
The research on workflow patterns has been applied in evaluating web service composition standards such as BPML and BPWEL4WS. This work has also been used in an analysis of UML activity diagrams (both versions 1.4 and 2.0), BML, a language used for Enterprise Application Integration, and BPMN, a proposed notation for business process modelling. In the context of the BABEL project, the patterns have been extended for the data and the resource perspectives. In addition, research has been conducted into exception handling patterns and into coupling patterns.
The YAWL Initiative
The workflow patterns have given rise to YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language, a powerful workflow language with a formal syntax and a formal semantics. The support environment for YAWL is an open source project, supported by industry partners, and a number of releases have been made available for download.
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