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Impact of YAWL on Teaching

Lectures

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

YAWL was taught as part of INB323/INN323 "Smart Services" in Semester 2, 2009. YAWL was also a topic of ITN/B299 "Workflow Management" in Semester 1, 2006. YAWL was taught as part of ITN261 "Methods and Techniques in Business Process Management" in Semester 1 2005. YAWL was a topic of a guest lecture in ITN252 "Process Engineering" in 2004

Tsinghau University, China

YAWL is taught in elective unit "Workflow Technology Foundation" of the postgraduate course in School of Software in Tsinghua University from 2005 onwards by Prof Jianmin Wang. ("工作流技术基础" – 清华大学软件学院硕士生选修课程之一).

University of Tartu, Estonia

YAWL is taught as part of a regular course on Business Process Management lectured by Prof Marlon Dumas.

Technische Universitat Dormund, Germany

YAWL is being taught as part of the course "Elektronische Geschaftsprozesse" by Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof in 2010.

Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University oAS, Germany

YAWL was taught in the summer 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hense as part of a course on Process Modeling for 4th semester bachelor students in Business Information Systems.

Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
YAWL was used in a course on Workflow Management in 2007, 2008 and 2009. 

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Dr Jan Mendling used YAWL in Business Process Modelling in the winter semester 2008/2009, mentioned YAWL in a lecture in System Analysis and Design in 2009 and mentioned YAWL in a lecture in Advanced BPM and Enterprise Systems in the winter semester 2009/2010.

Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, Germany
YAWL was used in a course on Geschaeftsprozessmodellierung und Workflow-Management at the Informatik Fakultaet in the winter semester of 2007/2008.

University of Karlsruhe, Germany
YAWL was used in a course on Workflow Management Systems in the winter semesters of 2008/2009 and 2006/2007. Exercises can be found here.

University of Muenster, Germany
YAWL was taught in a course on Workflow Management and Petri Nets in 2009/2010. YAWL was used in a course on Geschaeftsprozessmodellierung und Workflowmanagement in the winter semester of 2007/2008. Workflow Patterns and YAWL was taught by Dr. Patrick Delfmann, Sebastian Herwig, Armin Stein in 2007

University of Potsdam, Germany
There are 2 detailed lectures about YAWL - Overview of the Language and Formal Semantics - in a course on Process Oriented Information Systems at HPI by Prof Mathias Weske in the winter semester of 2006/2007.

University of Regensburg, Germany
YAWL was used in a course on Geschaeftsprozessmodellierung at the Lehrstuhl fuer Business Engineering in the winter semester of 2008/2009.  YAWL was taught in Workflow Management in the winter semester of 2009/2010.

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India

YAWL was taught as part of IP0943: Process Modeling in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years.

SAPIENZA – University of Rome, Italy

YAWL, using chapters 1-6, 17, 20 and 22 of the YAWL book, was taught as part of the course "Seminars in Software and Services for the Information Society" by Arthur ter Hofstede in May 2010. YAWL was also taught as part of the course "Elective in Software and Services" for the Master Degree in Computer Engineering in Semester 2, 2009 by Dr. Massimiliano de Leoni. An introduction to Workflow Patterns and verification was also given.

University of Bologna, Italy
Laboratorio Programmazione Web, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze di Internet, - Dr. Davide Rossi 2008/2009

University of Calabria, Italy
YAWL is taught as part of a unit Sistemi di Elaborazioni 1 by Prof. Giancarlo Fortino in the second half of 2006 and in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010.

University of Verona, Italy
YAWL will be taught as part of "Sistemi Informativi Aziendali, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria e Scienze Informatiche" in 2010 by Dr Barabara Oliboni, "Sistemi Informativi Aziendali, Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Informatica" from 2007 to 2010 by Prof Carlo Combi, and YAWL was taught as part of a First Level Master in Network Planning and Management by Dr. Barbara Oliboni and Dr. Matteo Gozzi in 2006. This site has a set of very detailed lectures on YAWL (in Italian).

Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

YAWL was presented as part of a unit "Modelling of Organisations", at the Nijmegen Institute for Information and Computing Science, in the first half of 2004 by Prof Erik Proper.

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

YAWL was used in the master year course Workflow Management in semester Sept-Dec 2007 by Dr Manfred Jeusfeld. YAWL was also used in IS Analysis and Design at this university. 

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University (SU), at the department for Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), SU/KTH, Sweden

YAWL was used in a course - BPDI/IV2037, Business Process Design and Intelligence, 7,5hp (a course at master level, 5 weeks full time studies) in the spring semester 2009. YAWL was used in a course - IV1020, Processmodellering och design, 9hp (an introductory, but specialized, course on Process modeling and design, 6 weeks full time studies) in the spring semester 2008 and in the spring semester 2009

University of Southern California, USA

YAWL was studied as part of the final course project dealing with software architectural recovery and workflow systems in CS578: "Software Architectures", a graduate course taught at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, CA, in the Spring Semester of 2009 by Professor Chris Mattmann.

Minor Use

Linkopings Universitet Sweden, Department of Computer Science, Sweden

Mentioned as part of a lecture of the unit TDDC18 Component-Based Software, by by Prof. Dr. Uwe Assmann in the first half of 2004.

California State University, USA
YAWL was used in the master course MIS 260: Systems Analysis and Design in Spring 2007.

West Virginia University, USA

YAWL was presented in "Part 2 Collaboration in the 21st Century: Models and Theoretical Foundations" in August 2005 by Dr Y.V. Ramana Reddy, Dr. Sumitra Reddy and Vijayanand Bharadwaj

Student Seminars

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

YAWL was the subject of a seminar called Geschäftsprozessmodellierung in 2010.

Wayne State University, USA

YAWL was the subject of a student presentation in CSC8710: Research Seminar on Scientific Workflows in Fall 2008