【主题】Policy-Driven Business Process Modeling and Change Management
【时间】2006-4-19下午3:00-5:00
【地点】伟伦楼南431
【语言】中文/英文
【内容摘要】
For organizations with large-scale or a large number of business processes,
maintaining process design efficiency and consistency under various changes
is a non-trivial problem. Currently, the existing workflow technology does
not offer analytical capabilities to handle workflow changes in an efficient
and intelligent manner.
In this presentation, we propose a policy-driven business process design
methodology focusing on workflow change management. The main contributions
of our study include: (1) offering a novel policy perspective to business
process design, which provides a formal link between business policies and
process models; (2) a formal analysis of the changes among different process
components and the potential corresponding change anomalies; (3) development
of a unified process modeling language and the associated algorithms to
support systematic process change management. Our research goal is to fill a
critical void in the area of business process research and will have
important impact on both theory and practice of business process management.
(This talk is based on the collaboration with my Ph.D. student Harry Wang,
who will join the faculty at the University of Delaware in the fall of
2006.)
【主讲人简介】
Dr. J. Leon Zhao is Professor and Honeywell Fellow in MIS, University of
Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Haas School of
Business, UC Berkeley, and was an Assistant Professor in HKUST and College
of William and Mary, respectively. He has published over 30 journal articles
including Management Science, ISR, JMIS, CACM, Information Systems Frontier,
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Decision Support
Systems. His work also appeared in over 60 refereed conference papers. Leon
is an associate editor of Information Systems Research, Decision Support
Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, International
Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Web Services
Research and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Database
Management. He has co-edited seven special issues in various IS journals.
Leon is a program co-chair for the Workshop on E-Business (2003) and the
15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (2005) and the IEEE
Conference on Services Computing (2006). He has served on over 30 program
committees (or tracks/minitracks) in international conferences/workshops.
He is visiting Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during the
Spring Semester of 2006. | 
