Business Process Management (BPM) - Students

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Lachlan Aldred Email: l.aldred@qut.edu.au

Principal Supervisor: Prof. Arthur ter Hofstede

Associate Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marlon Dumas

Expected Completion: September 2007

Title: Fundamentals of Business Process Integration

Abstract: Through extensive modelling, development, and surveys, we have discovered a set of coupling integration patterns.  These build on an award winning paper from 2005, and are documented in an article we submitted to a journal (currently under review).  A technical report of these was also released and can found on the http://bpmcenter.org website.

We have also built a prototype that hopes to address the myopic approaches to defining and deploying distributed business processes.  Our surveys of state of the art BPM solutions and studies of patterns have revealed a new set of concerns that are (a) not adequately addressed by existing middleware solutions, (b) not yet able to be captured at the BPM layer by a suitable set of communication abstractions.   Our proposal currently targets the "glue" that would be needed to join these two layers together to improve and extend communication between distributed business processes.