Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik
Dr. Jana Köhler

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Dr. Jana Köhler

The Process Structure Tree and its Application - towards a Compiler for Process-oriented Languages

Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are two hot topics in the IT industry today. Besides the huge commercial interest, there is a growing research community tackling the hard problems underlying BPM and SOA such as the verification of business process models, the automatic composition of services, or the life cycle of BPM and SOA applications. A major part of BPM/SOA technologies are new programming and modeling languages that raise the level of abstraction to process-oriented and distributed systems. The talk gives an overview over the recent contributions of the Business Integration Technologies group of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory(http://www.zurich.ibm.com/csc/bit <

At the core of our current work is the Process Structure Tree (BPM-08 Best Paper Award), a data structure comparable to the Abstract Syntax Tree that provides an efficient and scalable solution to the parsing problem of business process models. In this talk, I will review the Process Structure tree and explain how we exploit parsing information to enable the fast detection of control-flow errors, the structural comparison and the pattern-based editing and automatic refactoring of business process models. I also discuss the vision of a compiler for the emerging process-oriented modeling and programming languages that drives our work.

Bio: Jana Koehler is manager of the Business Integration Technologies group at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich. She joined IBM in Spring 2001 after having worked at the German Research Center for AI, the University of Freiburg, and Schindler Elevators R&D. The group's work is centered around Business-Driven Development - a methodology that focuses on Model-Driven Techniques to implement Business Processes in a Service-Oriented Architecture - and focuses on technology contributions to IBM's WebSphere and Rational platforms.

 

Gastgeber:
Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Referentin:
Dr. Jana Köhler
IBM Research GmbH
Zurich Research Laboratory

Ort:           HS 1
Datum:      Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008
Zeit:          16:00

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