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2024
Networked Business Models, Interorganizational Business Processes and Cooperative Information Systems: A Holistic Point of ViewPaul Grefen, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology / Eviden Digital Transformation Consulting, Netherlands Machine Learning and Generative AI in BPM: Recent Developments and Emerging ChallengesBarbara Weber, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland 2023
Boualem Benatallah
Biography:
Boualem Benatallah is a full professor of computing at Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland) since Jan 2022. He is a fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in Web services middleware, business process automation, quality control in crowdsourcing and AI-enabled services, automated and crowdsourced training data curation, conversational cognitive services, and context-aware and compositional task-oriented conversational services. He has published more than 300 refereed papers including more than 100 journal papers. Benatallah has been general and PC chair of a number of international conferences. He has been a guest editor of several special issues for reputable international journals. He is a member of the steering committee of ICSOC (Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing) conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of numerous international journals including ACM Transactions on Web, IEEE Transactions on services computing, and ACM Computing surveys. He supervised over 36 research (including 32 PhD and 5 Masters by Research) students to completion as principal or joint supervisor. Benatallah has had over 21 years as a senior lecturer, associate professor, full professor and then Scientia professor at UNSW Sydney (Australia) before joining DCU.
Fabio Casati
Biography:
Fabio Casati is a Principal Machine Learning Architect at Servicenow as well as technical lead for the AI Trust and Governance group in servicenow research. Fabio focuses on designing, architecting and deploying AI-powered workflows for enterprise customers. On the research side, he is working on AI applied to workflows and on quality in AI. Previously he was Professor at the University of Trento. In that role, he started research lines on crowdsourcing and hybrid human-machine computations, focusing on applications that have direct positive impact on society through tangible artefacts adopted by the community. Prior to that, he was technical lead for the research program on business process intelligence in Hewlett-Packard USA, where he contributed to several HP commercial products in the area of web services and business process management. He co-authored a best-selling book on Web services and is author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers and dozens of patents.
2022
Dan Isaacs
Biography:
Dan Isaacs is Chief Technology Officer of Digital Twin Consortium, where he is responsible for setting the technical direction for the Member Consortium, liaison partnerships and business development support for new memberships.
Previously, Dan was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Xilinx where he was responsible for emerging technologies including AI/Machine Learning, including defining and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT. Prior to joining the Digital Twin Consortium, Dan was responsible for Automotive Business Development focused on Automated Driving and ADAS systems.
Dan represented Xilinx to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has more than 25 years of experience working in automotive, Mil/Aerospace and consumer-based companies including Ford, NEC, LSI Logic and Hughes Aircraft.
An accomplished speaker, Dan has delivered keynotes, presentations and served as panellist and moderator for IIC World Forums, Industrial IOT Global conferences, Embedded World, Embedded Systems, and FPGA Conferences. He is a member of international advisory boards and holds degrees in Computer Engineering: EE from Cal State University, B.S. Geophysics from ASU.
2018
Martin Hepp
Universität der Bundeswehr Munich
Biography:
Martin Hepp is a professor of E-business and General Management at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich. He holds a master's degree in business management and business information systems and a PhD in business information systems from the University of Würzburg (Germany). His key research interests are shared data structures at Web scale, for example Web ontology engineering, both at the technical, social, and economical levels, conceptual modeling in general, and data quality management. As part of his research, he developed the GoodRelations vocabulary, an OWL DL ontology for data interoperability for e-commerce at Web Scale. Since 11/2012, GoodRelations is the e-commerce core of schema.org, the official data markup standard of major search engines, namely Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex. Martin authored more than 80 academic publications and was the organizer of more than fifteen workshops and conference tracks on conceptual modeling, Semantic Web topics, and information systems, and a member of more than sixty conference and workshop program committees, including ECIS, EKAW, ESWC, IEEE CEC/EEE, ISWC, and WWW.
Pieter De Leenheer
Collibra, cofounder and Research & Education Officer
Biography:
Pieter De Leenheer is a cofounder of Collibra and leads the company’s Research & Education group, including the Collibra University, which offers a range of self-paced learning and certification courses to help data governance professionals and data citizens gain new skills and expertise. Prior to co-founding the company, Pieter was a professor at VU University of Amsterdam. Today he still serves as adjunct professor at Columbia University in the City of New York and as visiting scholar at several universities across the globe including UC San Diego and Stanford.
Richard Mark Soley
Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG), Chairman & CEO
Biography:
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group®, also leading the Cloud Standards Customer Council™ the Industrial Internet Consortium®. Previously cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, he worked for technology companies and venture firms like TI, Gold Hill, Honeywell & IBM. Dr. Soley has SB, SM and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
A longer bio is avialble here: http://www.omg.org/~soley/
Tom Raftery
SAP / Instituto Internacional San Telmo
Biography:
Tom Raftery is a Global Vice President for multinational software corporation SAP, an adjunct professor at the Instituto Internacional San Telmo, and a board advisor for a number of start-ups.
Before joining SAP Tom worked as an independent industry analyst focusing on the Internet of Things, Energy and CleanTech and as a Futurist for Gerd Leonhardt’s Futures Agency.
Tom has a very strong background in technology and social media having worked in the industry since 1991. He is the co-founder of an Irish software development company, a social media consultancy, and is co-founder and director of hyper energy-efficient data center Cork Internet eXchange – the data centre with the lowest latency connection between Europe and North America.
Tom also worked as an Analyst for industry analyst firm RedMonk, leading their GreenMonk practice for over 7 years. Tom serves on the Advisory Boards of SmartCities World and RetailEverywhere.com.
2017
Dr. Markus Lanthaler
Software Engineer at Google; creator of JSON-LD and Hydra
Biography:
Dr. Markus Lanthaler is a software engineer and tech lead at Google where he currently works on YouTube. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Graz University of Technology in 2014 for his research on Web APIs and Linked Data. Dr. Lanthaler is one of the core designers of JSON-LD and the inventor of Hydra. He has published several scientific articles, is a frequent speaker at conferences, and chairs the Hydra W3C Community Group.
Michael Brodie
Research Scientist, CSAIL, MIT
Biography:
Dr. Michael L. Brodie is a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. As Chief Scientist of Verizon, the 2nd largest Telco in the world, for 25 years, he has a keen interest in advanced technology and its applications in the real world. His responsibility on the Scientific Advisory Board of two of the world’s 60+ Data Science Research Institutes [Insight Center for Data Analytics, Ireland, (2015-), and Swinburne Data Science Research Institute (2017-)] is to understand the opportunities, state of the art, and research challenges for the emerging discipline of Data Science. This lecture presents the Big Picture of Big Data and of Data Science and the consequent revolutions in science and industry.
Ronald Stamper
Biography:
1953 Army – modelled short career on the Good Soldier Svejk
1955 University College, Oxford – mathematics (and opera).
1958 NHS-Statistician at Oxford Regional Hospitals working on organisational problems;
1961 UK Steel industry – Operational Research; then, at the staff college, he created the first courses on information systems analysis and design outside the computer industry. Discovered semiotics and, as a result, and wrote his book “Information in Business and Administrative Systems”
1968 his syllabus became the basis for the UK’s national programme for which he wrote a book of case studies and moved to the London School of Economics to teach and research.
1970s Principal Investigator on LEGOL-MEASUR programme funded by IBM, Digital two UK Research Councils (physical and social sciences).
1979 Semantics paper at IFIP DB Architecture conference: chair said “too philosophical”.
1988 Prof. of Information Management at U. Twente, research continued.
1999 ‘Retired’ (joke) continued the research and attempted to transfer the technology to industry against the evident wishes of the UK’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, which presides over the worst productivity in the OECD. As our Semantic Normal Form makes huge improvements in productivity, the DBIS’s record was threatened.
Stephen Mellor
Industrial Internet Consortium CTO
Biography:
Stephen Mellor is the Chief Technical Officer for the Industrial Internet Consortium, where he directs the standards requirements and technology & security priorities for the Industrial Internet. In that role, he coordinates the activities of the several engineering, architecture, security and testbed working groups and teams. He also co-chairs both the Definitions, Taxonomy and Reference Architecture workgroup and the Use Cases workgroup for the NIST CPS PWG (National Institute for Standards and Technology Cyberphysical System Public Working Group).
He is a well-known technology consultant on methods for the construction of real-time and embedded systems, a signatory to the Agile Manifesto, and adjunct professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia. Stephen is the author of Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, Object Lifecycles, Executable UML, and MDA Distilled.
Until recently, he was Chief Scientist of the Embedded Software Division at Mentor Graphics, and founder and past president of Project Technology, Inc., before its acquisition. He participated in multiple UML/modeling-related activities at the Object Management Group (OMG), and was a member of the OMG Architecture Board, which is the final technical gateway for all OMG standards. Stephen was the Chairman of the Advisory Board to IEEE Software for ten years and a two-time Guest Editor of the magazine, most recently for an issue on Model-Driven Development.
2016
Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis
Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Biography:
Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis received a BSc degree in Mathematics and an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 1994 and 1996 respectively. In 1998 he received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester and in 2005 he received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Ioannidis held a Research Scholar position at the Stevens Institute of Technology until 2007 and since then he is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. His research interests are in the area of systems and network security, security policy, privacy and high-speed networks. Ioannidis has authored more than 100 publications in international conferences and journals, as well as book chapters, and has both chaired and served in numerous program committees in prestigious conferences, such as ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, etc. Ioannidis is a Marie-Curie Fellow and has participated in numerous international and European projects. He has coordinated several European and National projects (e.g. PASS, EU-INCOOP, GANDALF, etc.), and is currently the coordinator of SHARCS, a H2020 European project.
François Vernadat
LGIPM, University of Lorraine, France and European Institutions, Luxembourg
Biography:
Dr François Vernadat has been a research officer, first at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, in the 80’s and then at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France, in the 90’s. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Metz in France in automatic control and industrial engineering. At the end of 2001, he joined the European Commission, DG Eurostat in Luxemburg, as project manager in the IT Directorate and then DG Infomatics (DIGIT). In 2008 he moved to the European Court of Auditors in Luxemburg, another European institution, where he is currently the head of the Information Systems and Methods (ISM) unit. His research work has been dealing with enterprise architectures, enterprise modelling and integration, information systems design and analysis, CIM and various aspects of industrial engineering (facility layout, performance evaluation, cost estimation, competency modelling and value-risk management). He has lectured in many countries in Europe, North, Latin and South America, China and North Africa. He has consulted several large and medium-sized companies in France and Canada (automotive industry, aeronautics industry, and software houses). He is the author of over 285 scientific papers in journals, conferences, and edited books. He is the author of the textbook "Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Principles and Applications", co-author of the book "Practice of Petri nets in Manufacturing" and co-editor of the book "Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering", all published by Chapman & Hall. He is adviser for International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, associate editor for Computers in Industry, International Journal of Production Research, Enterprise Information Systems, and is on the editorial board of Computers and Industrial Engineering. He served as vice-chairman several technical committees of the IFAC, has been a member of IEEE and ACM and he has been chairman or vice-chairman of several international conferences on industrial engineering.
Giancarlo Fortino
University of Calabria, Italy
Biography:
Giancarlo Fortino (SM’12) received the Laurea (B.S and M.S) and Ph.D in computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering (since 2006) with the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES), University of Calabria. He holds the Scientific Italian Habilitation for Full Professor and he is also Adjunct Full Professor of Computer Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in the framework of High-End Foreign Experts in China and adjunct senior researcher at Italian National Research Council. He authored about 300 publications in journals, conferences, and books. He is currently the Scientific and Technical Project Manager of the EU-funded H2020 INTER-IoT project on heterogeneous IoT platform interoperability. His research interests include distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, body area networks, software agents, IoT technology, cloud computing. He is an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems, Information Fusion, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He is founding co-chair of SMC TC on Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices and is the Chair of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE SMC Society. He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a spin-off of University of Calabria, engaged in advanced applied research and development of IoT systems.
Patrick McLaughlin
Oracle Fellow
Biography:
Patrick McLaughlin is an Oracle Fellow specialising in Information Security for Oracle across EMEA. He has over fifteen years experience in IT security. He is responsible for promoting Oracle's security offerings and enterprise solutions architecture, internally across the Oracle pre-sales, sales and consulting, and externally with major customers and partners across EMEA. Most recently he has been working on security of Cloud, Mobile and Big data.
Prior to this role Patrick was CTO at Baltimore Technologies, where he was product architect for Baltimore's PKI product and cryptographic toolkits. He also had responsibility for company R&D, technology partnering and working with lead customers in government and finance. Patrick has worked as an independent consultant for several years and has extensive experience in the distributed systems and telecoms management areas, having worked for Broadcom Éireann Research and Ericsson for ten years.
2015
Eva Kühn
TU Wien, Austria
Biography:
Graduated engineer of computer sciences, Ph.D., Habilitation and professor position at TU Wien. Heinz-Zemanek Research Award for Ph.D. work on "Multi Database Systems". Kurt-Gödel Research Grant from the Austrian Government for a sabbatical at the Indiana Center for Databases at Purdue University, USA. International publications and teaching in the areas of methods and tools for software development, software engineering, coordination languages, software integration, parallel and distributed programming, heterogeneous transaction processing, and space based computing. Project coordinator of nationally (FWF, FFG, AT), internationally (EU Commission) funded research projects, and projects with industry. International software patents for research work on a new "Coordination System". Seven years of experience as Chief Technological Officer (CTO) of an Austrian Spin-Off company for software development. Conference chair, program committee member, organizer and coordinator of international conferences. Member of the Governing Board of the Austrian and European UNIX systems user group. Member of the ISO Working Group for the standardization of Prolog. Member of the Senate of the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft (CDG). Member of the Science and Research Council of the Federal State of Salzburg.
John Mylopoulos
University of Trento, Italy
Biography:
John Mylopoulos holds a professor emeritus position at the Universities of Trento and Toronto. He earned a PhD degree from Princeton University in 1970 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto that year. His research interests include conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, data semantics and knowledge management. Mylopoulos is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences). He has served as programme/general chair of international conferences in Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Software Engineering, including IJCAI (1991), Requirements Engineering (1997), and VLDB (2004). Mylopoulos is the recipient of an advanced grant from the European Research Council for a project titled "Lucretius: Foundations for Software Evolution”.
Michele Bezzi
Sap Labs, France
Biography:
Michele Bezzi: is Research Manager at SAP Product Security Research. He is heading a group of researchers investigating into applied research and innovative security solutions, addressing topics likesecurity tools for development, intrusion detection systems, and software security analysis.
He received his Master Degree in Physics from the Univ. of Florence in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bologna in 1998. He has 15+ years’ experience in industrial research in SONY, Accenture and SAP. He has been supervising several European projects, and he has published 50+ scientific papers in various research areas: security, privacy, pervasive computing, neural networks, evolutionary models, complex systems.
Sjir Nijssen
PNA Group, Netherlands
Biography:
Dr. Sjir Nijssen is emeritus and has been CTO at PNA in the Netherlands (www.pna-group.com) for the last 25 years. Dr. Nijssen first experienced the essential steps of working with facts in 1959 and 1960 while serving as a draft officer in the Royal Dutch Air Force, where at that time careful observation of planes of friends and enemies by boys on towers in the field, and girls plotting the information by the boys in one of the seven areas of the Netherlands, over telephone lines on a large table in atomic free bunkers. The contents of the tables of the seven areas was verbalized by girls sitting at the next higher level and were then plotted by girls in the central command on a table covering the entire Netherlands. That information was used by the officers to direct interceptor planes. This was a world with very clear protocols how to observe, how to formulate the facts, how to convert the facts into another representation of the facts on a land map table, verbalizing the information of the local tables into facts and transmit these facts to the girls plotting the information read on the central table. Dr. Nijssen started with fact based business communication modeling in the early seventies, at Control Data’s European headquarters in Brussels.
Since then it has been more than his full-time occupation. It was there where NIAM (Natural language Information Analysis Method), a fact based protocol to develop a conceptual schema and notation, was conceived. Prof. Robert Meersman was one of the pillars of the 22-person research lab at Control Data, from 1970-1982. Since 1983 Dr Nijssen held a position as professor of Computer Science for seven years at the University of Queensland in Australia. In 1989 he founded the company PNA, exclusively dedicated to delivering durable and tested business requirements, conceptual modelling, consulting and educational services fully based on fact orientation. PNA currently employs about 30 people. Dr. Nijssen can be reached directly at sjir.nijssen(at)pna-group.com.
2014
Domenico Saccà
University of Calabria, Italy
Biography:
Domenico Saccà (http://sacca.deis.unical.it) is full professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria since 1987 and he is presently chairing the School of Computer Engineering at that university.
Since 2009 he is also President of the Computing and Telecommunication Competence Center ICT-SUD, operating in five regions of Southern Italy: Calabria, Campania, Puglia, Sardegna and Sicilia.
From January 2002 to January 2009, he was Director of the CNR (the Italian National Research Council) Research Institute ICAR (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking), located in Rende (CS) and branches in Naples and Palermo. Previously, from 1995 on, he was director of the CNR ISI (Institute on System and Computer Sciences).
In the past he was visiting scientist at IBM Laboratory of San Jose, at the Computer Science Department of UCLA and at the ICSI Institute of Berkeley; moreover, he was scientific consultant of MCC, Austin and manager of the Research Division of CRAI (a research institute in southern Italy).
His current research interests focus on advanced issues of databases such as: data and process mining, inverse data mining, data warehousing and OLAP on distributed platforms, compressed representation of datacubes, database query languages. Recently he has started some research activities on cyber security topics such as protection of systems, services and end users as well as on privacy issues.
His list of publications contains more than 200 papers on journals (including Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB Journal, Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data) and on proceedings of international conferences.
He has been member of the program committees of several international conferences and director of international schools and seminars.
Ernesto Damiani
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Biography:
Ernesto Damiani is a full professor at the Computer Science Department of Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, the director of Secure Servcie-oriented Architectures (SESAR) lab and the Head of the University’s Ph.D. program in Computer Science. His areas of interest include Cloud and SOA security, semi-structured information processing, business process analysis and discovery. He has published several books and more than 300 papers and international patents. His work has appeared, among many others, in the IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the IEEE Trans. on Service Computing, the ACM Trans. on Information and System Security, the IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, the ACM Trans. on Information Systems and the ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Ernesto Damiani leads/has led a number of international research projects: he was the Principal Investigator of the ASSERT4SOA project (STREP) on the security certification of SOA; has led the activity of SESAR research unit within SecureSCM (STREP), ARISTOTELE (IP), ASSERT4SOA (STREP), CUMULUS (STREP) and PRACTICE (IP) projects funded by the EC in the 7th Framework Program.
Ernesto has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Service-Oriented Computing since its inception, and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems. Also, Prof. Damiani is Editor in chief of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (Inderscience) and of the International Journal of Web Technology and Engineering (IJWTE).
Henk G.Sol
University of Groningen / Delft University of Technology
Biography:
Prof. dr. Henk G. Sol is over 40 years a driver of engaged scholarship in the field of information systems and decision enhancement. With his school of nearly 80 completed PhD dissertations supervised and some 25 PhD dissertations under way, he is a major contributor to building the foundations of design science research in management and information systems.
In addition, he is responsible for the graduation of over 700 Engineering MSc and MBA students.All dissertations are based on theory development applied to tackle issues that matter in practice and are relevant to both developing and developed countries.
As founding dean he was responsible for the establishment of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology and of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Prof. Sol has organized numerous international conferences and workshops, of which the conference series on CRISand Dynamic Modeling have been seminal.He has published widely in renowned journals, edited many books, and given many keynote presentations all over the world. He acted as a consultant to many governments and organizations worldwide. He was founding father of IFIP TC8, 8.1 and 8.3, AIS and many (inter)national doctoral consortia.
Henk G. Sol serves currently in various academic and professional roles: President of the Supervisory Board of Groningen Airport Eelde NV, Eelde; Director of Sol Information Management BV, Haren; Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Uganda Technology and Management University, Kampala; Chairperson of Stichting PAO Informatica; Consulting Professor of PBLQ, The Hague; and Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Communication and Development, the Hague.
Johann Eder
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Biography:
Johann Eder is full professor for Information and Communication Systems in the Department of Informatics-Systems of the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. From 2005-2013 he was Vice President of the Austrian Science Funds (FWF). He held positions at the Universities of Linz, Hamburg and Vienna and was visiting scholar at AT&T Shannon Labs.
The research interests of Johann Eder are databases, information systems and data management for medical research. He successfully directed many funded research projects on workflow management systems, temporal data warehousing, application interoperability, information systems modelling, information systems for medical research, etc.
Johann Eder has contributed to workflow systems and business process management for 2 decades, in particular in the area of workflow systems languages and architectures, exception handling, time management, and data management. His research led to the development of the commercial workflow management systems altavistaWorks and @enterprise.
He published more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He. served in numerous program committees for international conferences and as editor and referee for international journals. He acted as general chair and/or PC chair for CAiSE, ADBIS, BPM, CoopIS, and DAWAK conferences.
2013
Herbert Kindermann
CEO Metasonic AG, Germany
Biography:
Since August 2009, Herbert Kindermann, has been the sole member of the Executive Board and CEO of Metasonic AG and responsible for all operative units, from marketing to software development. Kindermann focus on the company's customer orientation and the internationalization of sales and services around Metasonic® Suite. Before joining Metasonic in June 2007 as a member of the board of directors, Herbert held the position of a Member of the Executive Board at IDS Scheer with responsibility for all international business of the IDS Scheer AG. Previously, Herbert held various positions at COMSOFT GmbH (project manager, department manager and building up the SAP consulting business), IBCS S.A. (founder and CEO, building up business with subsidiaries in Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia). In the beginning of the year 2000, IBCS became a member of the IDS Scheer group, taking over business responsibility for the region of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2003 Herbert Kindermann became a Member of the Extended Board of IDS Scheer AG.
Hermann Maurer
TU Graz, Austria
Manfred Hauswirth
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland
Biography:
Manfred Hauswirth is the Vice-Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland and a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). His research current research focus is on linked data streams, semantic sensor networks, sensor networks middleware, large-scale semantics-enabled distributed information systems and applications. Manfred has also worked extensively in peer-to-peer systems, Internet of things, self-organization and self-management, service-oriented architectures and distributed systems security. He has published over 160 papers in these domains, he has co-authored a book on distributed software architectures and several book chapters on data management and semantics. Manfred is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, has served in over 180 program committees of international scientific conferences and was program co-chair of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P) in 2007, general chair of the Fifth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in 2008, program co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) in 2011, and program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) in 2011. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and is on the board of WISEN, the Irish Wireless Sensors Enterprise Led Network, the scientific board of the Corporate Semantic Web research center at FU Berlin, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Sensor Web Technologies (CLARITY) in Dublin, Ireland.
Richard Mark Soley
OMG, Chairman and CEO
Biography:
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG®.
As Chairman and CEO of OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language TM (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®). He also led the effort to establish the SOA Consortium in January 2007, leading to the launch of the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) in 2009. The Initiative focuses on the management imperative to make business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure in a complex, networked world, through practice areas including Business Design, Business Process Excellence, Intelligent Business, Sustainable Business and Secure Business. In addition, Dr. Soley is the Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, helping end-users transition to cloud computing and direct requirements and priorities for cloud standards throughout the industry.
Dr. Soley also serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. He is an active angel investor, and was involved in the creation of both the Eclipse Foundation and Open Health Tools.
Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A longer biography is available here, and Dr. Soley's complete CV is available on request.
2012
Ed Parsons
Google, UK
Biography:
Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography, and tools including Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Maps for Mobile. In his role he also maintains links with Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology.
Ed is based in Google’s London office, and anywhere else he can plug in his laptop.
Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information.
Ed came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division.
He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institute of Technology and holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London.
Ed is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is the author of numerous articles, professional papers and presentations to International Conferences and he developed one of first weblogs in the Geospatial Industry at www.edparsons.com.
Ed is married with two children and lives in South West London.
If you wish to get in touch, please use my google+ or linkedin profile
Manfred Reichert
Univeristy of Ulm, Germany
Biography:
Manfred holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Diploma in Mathematics. Since January 2008 he has been appointed as full professor at Ulm University, Germany. Before, he was working in the Netherlands as associate professor at the University of Twente. There, he was also leader of the strategic research orientations on "E-health" and "Applied Science of Services", and member of the Management Board of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology – the largest ICT research institute in the Netherlands.
His major research interests include next generation process management technology, adaptive processes, process lifecycle management, data-driven process management, mobile processes, process model abstraction, and advanced process-aware applications (e.g., e-health, automotive engineering). Together with Peter Dadam he pioneered the work on the ADEPT process management technology and co-founded the AristaFlow GmbH.Manfred has been participating in numerous BPM research projects and made outstanding contributions in the BPMfield. His new Springer book on "Enabling Flexibility in Process-aware Information Systems" will be published in September 2012. Manfred was PC Co-chair of the BPM’08 and CoopIS’11 conferences and General Chair of the BPM’09 conference.
Maurizio Lenzerini
Università di Roma La Sapienza
Biography:
Maurizio Lenzerini is a professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy, where he is currently leading a research group on Artificial Intelligence and Databases. His main research interests are in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Ontology languages, Semantic Data Integration, and Service Modeling. His recent work is mainly oriented towards the use of Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning principles and techniques in Information System management, and in particular in information integration and service composition. He has authored over 250 papers published in leading international journals and conferences. He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals, and on the program committees of the most prestigious conferences in the areas of interest. He is currently the Chair of the Executive Committee of the ACM Symposium of Principles of Database Systems, a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of The Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe.
Volkmar Lotz
SAP Research, Germany
Biography:
Volkmar Lotz has more than 20 years experience in industrial research on Security and Software Engineering. He is heading the Security & Trust practice of SAP Research, a group of 40+ researchers investigating into applied research and innovative security solutions for modern software platforms, networked enterprises and Future Internet applications. The Security & Trust practice defines and executes SAP's security research agenda in alignment with SAP's business strategy and global research trends.
Volkmar’s current research interests include Business Process Security, Service Security, Authorisation, Security Engineering, Formal Methods and Compliance. Volkmar has published numerous scientific papers in his area of interest and is regularly serving on Programme Committees of internationally renowned conferences. He has been supervising various European projects, including large-scale integrated projects. Volkmar holds a diploma in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern.
2011
Amit Sheth
Kno.e.sis / Wright State University
Biography:
Amit Sheth is an educator, research and entrepreneur. He is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar at the Wright State University, Dayton OH. He directs Kno.e.sis - the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (http://knoesis.org, http://bit.ly/coe-k) which works on topics in Semantic, Social, Sensor and Services computing over Web and in social-cyber-physical systems, with the goal of transitioning from information age to meaning age. Prof. Sheth is an IEEE fellow and is one of the highly cited authors in Computer Science (h-index = 67) and World Wide Web. He is EIC of ISI indexed Intl. Journal of Semantic Web &Information Systems (http://ijswis.org), is joint-EIC of Distributed & Parallel Databases, is series co-editor of two Springer book series, and serves on several editorial boards.
By licensing his funded university research, he has also founded and managed two successful companies. Several commercial products and many operationally deployed applications have resulted from his R&D.
Niky Riga
GENI Project Office, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Biography:
Niky Riga is a Network Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies. Niky joined the GENI Project Office (GPO) in March 2010. As a member of GPO, Niky is responsible for supporting GENI experimenters in integrating and deploying their experiments as well as advocating their requirements to the rest of the GENI community.
Before joining the GPO, Niky worked on multiple innovative projects within the Network Research department of BBN. Her focus is on designing and prototyping pioneering transport services for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, while her main goal is making innovative, research ideas practical and implementing them on real systems. She has successfully led various integration efforts. Niky earned a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, and an MS degree in Computer Science at Boston University.
Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Biography:
Schahram Dustdar (ACM Distinguished Scientist), is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies heading the Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).
From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. He is Editor in Chief of Computing (Springer) and on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing, as well as author of some 300 publications. More info on his homepage: www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd
Siani Pearson
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK
Biography:
Siani Pearson is a senior researcher in the Cloud and Security Research Lab (HP Labs Bristol, UK), HP's major European long term applied research centre. She has an MA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh. She was a Fellow at the Computer Lab in Cambridge University, and for the last 17 years has worked at HP Labs in a variety of research and development programs including collaborations with HP business units and EU PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) project.
Siani's current research focus is on privacy enhancing technologies, accountability and the cloud. She is a technical lead on regulatory compliance projects with HP Privacy Office and HP Enterprise Services, and on the collaborative TSB-funded EnCoRe (Ensuring Consent and Revocation) project.
2010
Beng Chin Ooi
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Biography:
Beng Chin is Professor of Computer Science at School of Computing, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his BSc (1st Class Honors) and PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. His research interests include database performance issues, indexing techniques, multimedia and spatio-temporal databases, P2P systems and advanced applications, and cloud computing. His current system projects include BestPeer, P2P based data management system, and epiC, a data-intensive cloud computing platform.
He has served as a PC member for international conferences including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW, SIGKDD and Vice PC Chair for ICDE'00,04,06, co-PC Chair for SSD'93 and DASFAA'05, PC Chair for ACM SIGMOD'07, and Core DB track PC chair for VLDB'08. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), and a trustee member of VLDB Endowment Board. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMOD 2009 Contributions award.
Michael Brodie
Verizon, USA
Biography:
Dr. Michael L. Brodie is Chief Scientist of Verizon Services Operations in Verizon Communications, one of the world's leading providers of communications services.
Dr. Brodie works on strategic Information Technology opportunities and challenges to deliver business value from emerging technologies and practices in large-scale, distributed operational environments. He is concerned with the Big Picture including business, economic, application, and technical aspects of Information Ecosystems, core technologies, and integration with an active involvement in the Semantic Web and the holistic view of Web Sciences.
Dr. Brodie holds a PhD in Databases from the University of Toronto, has authored over 160 books, chapters, and articles, and has presented over 150 keynotes and invited lectures in over 30 countries.
Dr. Brodie is a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Future Information Architectures, Processes, and Strategies for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; an Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway (2006-present); an Adjunct Research Fellow, Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII) at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (January 2009-present); chairs three Advisory Boards – Semantic Technology Institutes International, Vienna, Austria (January 2007 – present); Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present); Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbrück, Austria (2003-present); and is a member of several advisory boards - The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2007 – present); School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2001 – present); Web Science Champion for the Web Science Trust, European Union’s Information Society Technologies 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes (2003-present); is a reviewer for the European Research Council, and is on the editorial board of several research journals.
Dr. Brodie has served on several boards: the United States of America National Academies Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and other National Goals (2006-2008); the VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment (1992 - 2004); and the Client Advisory Board, Forrester Research, Inc (2006-2008).
For more information see: michaelbrodie.com
Michael Sobolewski
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Biography:
Mike Sobolewski received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the Principal Investigator of the SORCER Lab (SORCERsoft.org) focused on research in distributed service-centric metacomputing. Currently he is a World Class Collaborator at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), WPAFB/USA and a Visiting Professor at the Polish Japanese Institute of IT, Warsaw, Poland. Before, he was a Professor of Computer Science, Texas Tech University and Director of SORCER Lab from 2002 till 2009. Now he is engaged in development of Algorithms for Federated High Fidelity Engineering Design Optimization applying his innovative SORCER solutions at AFRL.
While at the GE Global Research Center (GRC), 1994-2002, he was a senior computer scientist and the chief architect of large-scale projects funded by the United States Federal Government including the Federated Intelligent Product EnviRonment (FIPER) project and Computer Aided Manufacturing Network (CAMnet). Also, based on his web-based generic application framework he developed seventeen successful distributed systems for various GE business components. Before his work at GE GRC he was a Research Associate at the Concurrent Engineering Center (CERC) and and Visiting Professor at Computer Science Department, West Virginia University (1998-1994). At CERC/WVU he was a project leader for knowledge-based integration for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).
Prior to coming to the USA, during 18-year career with the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, he was the Head of the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Department, the Head of the Expert Systems Laboratory, and was engaged in research in the area of knowledge representation, knowledge-based systems, pattern recognition, image processing, neural networks, object-oriented programming, and graphical interfaces. He has served as a visiting professor, lecturer, or consultant in Sweden, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, and USA.
Wil van der Aalst
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Biography:
Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of Information Systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e. Currently he is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) working within the BPM group there. His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published more than 115 journal papers, 15 books (as author or editor), 230 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 40 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has an H-index of more than 70 according to Google Scholar, making him the Dutch computer scientist with the highest H-index) and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees working on process support. He has been a co-chair of many conferences including the Business Process Management conference, the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. He is also editor/member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Distributed and Parallel Databases, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Computers in Industry, Business & Information Systems Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, and Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency. He is also a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen).
For more information about his work visit:
www.workflowpatterns.com, www.processmining.org, www.yawl-system.com.