Business Process Technology
Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske Business Process Technology
Hasso Plattner Institute for It-Systems Engineering
at the University of Potsdam
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany

Phone:+49(0)331-5509-191
Fax:+49(0)331-5509-189
Room:C-2.12
eMail: Mathias..Weske (at) hpi..uni-potsdam..de

Bio Sketch

Professor Dr. Mathias Weske is chair of the business process technology research group at Hasso Plattner Institute of IT Systems Engineering at University of Potsdam, Germany. His research interests include business process management, process choreographies, process modeling methodologies, and service oriented computing. In 2009, he held a Visiting Professor position at the University of California Davis. He leads Oryx, an open source project on business process management. Dr. Weske has published twelve books and over 90 scientific papers in journals and conferences. He is on the steering committee of the BPM conference series. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and GI, and he is the chairperson of EMISA, the German Computer Science Society Special Interest Group on Development Methods for Information Systems and their Application. Dr. Weske has published a textbook on business process management. He is also the co-author of The Process, a narrative on using the Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN. He is co-founder and Scientific Director of Signavio, a Berlin-based startup company that provides collaborative business process management, both as-a-service and managed.

Bio Sketch in German

PhD and Habilitation Supervisions and Evaluations

  • Pierluigi Plebani, PhD (2005), Politecnico di Milano
  • Dr. Hilmar Schuschel (2006, Supervisor), University of Potsdam
  • Dr. Frank Puhlmann (2007, Supervisor), University of Potsdam
  • Nick Russell, PhD (2007), Queensland University of Technology
  • Dr. Jens Hündling (2008, Supervisor), University of Potsdam
  • Dr. Arnd Schnieders (2008, Supervisor), University of Potsdam
  • Dr. Helge Hofmeister (2009), University of Bamberg
  • Dr. rer. nat. habil Stephanie Rinderle-Ma (2009), University of Ulm
  • Dr. rer. nat. habil Barbara Weber (2009), University of Innsbruck
  • Dr. Christian Günther (2009), Technical University Eindhoven
  • Marcello la Rosa, PhD (2009), Queensland University of Technology
  • Dr. Gero Decker (2009, Supervisor), University of Potsdam

Recent Talks

  • February 25, 2010: Research Directions in Business Process Management (from 1995 through 2010). Keynote, 2nd Central-European Workshop on Services and their Composition. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  • March 2, 2010: Current Trends in Business Process Management. Colloquium University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • March 3, 2010: From Process Orchestrations to Process Choreographies. Colloquium University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • May 12, 2010: From Process Orchestrations to Process Choreographies. University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Service Research Institute Speaker Series, http://www.ksri.uni-karlsruhe.de/
  • June 18, 2010: Konsistenz von Prozessmodellen. Festvortrag 20 Jahre Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Münster
  • talk log

Current Activities

HPI Activities

Teaching Activities in Winter Term 2009/2010 In the current term, we are giving lectures in the HPI bachelor's program and in the master's program. Our teaching activities are complemented by an implementation seminar in the Oryx context in the bachelor's program and a research seminar in the master's program. A bachelor's project deals with Oryx in the wave. More information can be found at http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/studium/lehrangebot.html. The TeachingArchive holds information on previous teaching activities

Additional Duties

  • HPI Master Program Representative and Chair of Master Admission Commission
  • Until mid 2007 Erasmus Student Exchange Coordinator; this responsibility has been taken over by Professor Naumann; more information can be found at the HPI Erasmus web site
  • Member of the Study Commission (Studienausschuss) IT Systems Engineering

Scientific Service

  • Jury member - 2007-2009 - of the "Innovationspreis Berlin-Brandenburg", a regional innovation challenge jointly organized by the Federal States of Berlin and Brandenburg. More information can be found at http://www.innovationspreis-bb.de.
  • Area Editor of Information Systems: An International Journal
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Conference Series International Conference on Business Process Management. We also maintain http://bpm-conference.org.
  • Chair of the executive committee of GI SIG EMISA (German Computer Science Society Special Interest Group on Development Methods for Information Systems and their Application)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, an International Journal
  • Reviews for Scientific Journals
    • ACM Computing Surveys; ACM Transactions on the Web; IEEE Internet Computing; IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing; Information Systems, Elsevier; Information and Software Technology, Elsevier; Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier; Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer; Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung, Springer-Verlag; International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, VLDB Journal

Membership in Program Committees (Current)

  • 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) will be held in London, UK on June 20-24th, 2011 (www.caise2011.com).
  • 6th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices, NWeSP 2010, November 19-21, 2010 - Goa, India, http://www.mirlabs.org/nwesp10/
  • 2nd International Workshop on BPMN (PC Co-Chair). Potsdam, Germany, October 13-14, 2010, bpmn2010.org
  • 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (PC Co-Chair) (ICSOC'2010). December 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, California
  • Mediation Services at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2011 (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/)
  • Workshop "Steigerung der Dienstleistungsproduktivität", GI-Jahrestagung 2010, http://www.ercis.de/ERCIS/research/competencecenter/hybridews/gi2010
  • 8th International Conference on Business Process Management. Hoboken, NJ, Sept 14-16 2010, http://www.bpm2010.org/
  • 18th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2010) Crete, Greece, Oct 27 - 29, 2010, http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/coopis10
  • IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2010), December 14-15 in Perth, Australia. http://conferences.computer.org/soca/2010
  • 6th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence, at BPM 2010, the International Conference on Business Process Management, Hoboken, NJ, September 2010
  • IEEE 7th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2010/
  • The Third 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA, http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2010/
  • 1st International Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories (AER 2009) 6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy. In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), http://www.iceis.org/iceis2009/Workshops/aer/aer2009-cfp.htm
  • GI-Fachtagung Modellierung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (MobIS 2010), 15.-17. September 2010 Dresden
  • 10th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, I3E 2010, that will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 3 to 5 November 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG'09) to be held in conjunction with the 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009, http://www.icsoc.org), November 24-27, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • International Conference on Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Singapore, 2009
  • PC membership archive

Publications

(List of Publication as seen by DBLP)

Books and Monographs

  • Alexander Grosskopf, Gero Decker, Mathias Weske. The Process: Business Process Modeling using BPMN. Meghan Kiffer Press 2009. ISBN-10: 0929652266. (read more) bibtex

  • Kuropka, D., Tröger, P., Staab, S., and Weske, M. (Eds.): Semantic Service Provisioning. Springer 2008, XII, 226 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-78616-0 Springer link

  • Mathias Weske, Mohand-Said Hacid, Claude Godart (Editors): International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2007 Workshop Proceedings. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No 4832. Springer-Verlag 2007

  • Weske, M.: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures. 368 p. 265 illus., Hardcover; ISBN: 978-3-540-73521-2 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 book web site

  • Weske, M. and Nüttgens, M.: EMISA 2006: Methoden, Konzepte und Technologien für die Entwicklung von dienstbasierten Informationssystemen. Volume P-95 of Lecture Notes in Informatics. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., October 2006.

  • Welfens, Paul J.J. and Weske, M. (Eds.): Innovations, Digital Economic Dynamics and Regulatory Policy. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Springer Link

  • Pernici, B., Weske, M. (Eds.): Business Process Management: Special Issue Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 56, Issue 1. Elsevier: 2006. (online access; full text requires subscription)

  • Hirschfeld, R. and Kowalczyk, R. and Polze, A. and Weske, M (Eds.): NODe 2005, GSEM 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. LNI 69 GI 2005, ISBN 3-88579-398-9

  • Weske, M., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Verbeek, H.M.V. (Eds.): Advances in Business Process Management. Special Issue Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 50, Issue 1. Elsevier: 2004.

  • J. Desel, B. Pernici, M. Weske (Eds.): Second International Conference on Business Process Management. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Sciencie 3080. Springer-Verlag, 2004.

  • Weske, M., Liggesmeyer, P. (Eds.): Net.ObjectDays'2004: Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Object-Oriented and Internet-based Technologies, Concepts, and Applications for a Networked World. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 3263. Heidelberg: Springer 2004.

  • W.M.P. van der Aalst, A. ter Hofstede, M. Weske (Eds.): Business Process Management. Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Process Management 2003. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2678. Heidelberg: 2003.

  • Desel, J., Weske, M. (Herausgeber): Promise 2002: Prozessorientierte Methoden und Werkzeuge für die Entwicklung von Informationssystemen. GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics Nr. P-21. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik 2002 online.

  • Weske M.: Workflow Management Systems: Formal Foundation, Conceptual Design, Implementation Aspects. Habilitationsschrift Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Münster 2000. pdf

  • Weske M.: Deadlocks in Computersystemen. International Thomson Publishing, Bonn, 1995. ISBN 3-929821-11-7.

  • Weske M.: Event-driven Model of Distributed Transaction Processing to Specify and Analyze Deadlock Algorithms in Distributed Database Systems. Dissertation. University of Koblenz 1993.

Journal Articles

  • Gero Decker, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann and Mathias Weske. Interacting Services: From Specification to Execution. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2009

  • Kuropka, D. and Weske, M.: Implementing a Semantic Service Provision Platform - Concepts and Experiences. Special Issue on Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services of Journal Wirtschaftsinformatik, Issue 1/2008, pp 16-24 pdf

  • Kuropka, D. and Weske, M.: Towards a Service Composition and Enactment Platform. Int J Business Process Integration and Management. pp 102-108, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007 pdf

  • Hündling, J., Weske, M.: Modeling Quality of Services in Service-Oriented Environments. Journal of Design & Process Science. pp 35-45. Vol 10 Issue 4, 2006

  • Kuropka, D., Weske, M.: Semantik in betrieblichen dienstebasierten Architekturen. In: ERP Management Vol 2, 2006. pp 31-35.

  • Kuropka, D., Weske, M.: Die Adaptive Services Grid Plattform: Motivation, Potenzial, Funktionsweise und Anwendungsszenarien. EMISA Forum Volume 26 No 1, pp 13-25. Januar 2006. ISSN 1610-3351. pdf

  • Pernici, B., Weske, M.: Business Process Management (Guest Editorial). In: Pernici, Weske (Eds.) Special Issue on Business Process Management of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 56, Issue 1, pp 1-3. Elsevier: 2006.

  • van der Aalst, W.M.P., and Weske, M., and Grünbauer, D.: Case handling: a new paradigm for business process support. In: Data and Knowledge Engineering 53 (2005) pp 129-162. Elsevier: 2005 pdf

  • Weske, M., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Verbeek, H.M.V.: Advances in Business Process Management. In: Data and Knolwledge Engineering Special Issue on Advances in Business Process Managment. Volume 50 Issue 1. pp 1-8. Elsevier: 2004.

  • van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M., Wirtz, G.: Advanced Topics in Workflow Management: Issues, Requirements, and Solutions. Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. Volume 7, Number 3. Austin: Society for Design and Process Science 2003 pdf.

  • Wirtz, G., Weske, M., Giese, H.: The OCoN Approach to Workflow Modeling in Object-Oriented Systems. Information Systems Frontiers. Special Issue on Workflow Automation and Business Process Integration (Editors: E. Stohr, L. Zhao). Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 357-376. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 pdf.

  • Hündling, J., Weske, M.: Web Services: Foundation and Composition. Electronic Markets Journal Vol. 13 No. 2, pp 108-119. Abingdon: 2003.

  • Weske, M., Schneider, B.: An XML-Centred System Architecture for Flexible Electronic Services. International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM) Vol 1 No 3 pp 525-540. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2002.

  • Weske, M., Goesmann, T., Holten, R., Striemer, R.: Analysing, Modelling, and Improving Workflow Application Development Processes. Journal on Software Process Management Improvement and Practice. pp 35-46 Volume 6, Issue 1, Wiley 2001 pdf.

  • Weske, M.: Business-Objekte: Konzepte, Architekturen, Standards. Wirtschaftsinformatik 41 (1999) 1, 4-11: Wiederverwendbare und erweiterbare fachliche Komponenten für Anwendungssysteme. Wiesbaden: Vieweg 1999 pdf.

  • Weske, M.: Chancen und Grenzen von CSCW oder die Vision des Herrn V. (Kurzbeitrag) HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Themenheft Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Seiten 3-4. Heidelberg: dpunkt 2000.

  • M. Weske, J. Hündling, D. Kuropka, H. Schuschel: Objektorientierter Entwurf eines flexiblen Workflow-Management-Systems. Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung Band 13 Heft 4, 179-195. Berlin: Springer 1998 pdf.

  • Weske, M.: State-based Modeling of Flexible Workflow Executions in Distributed Environments. Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. Volume 3, Number 2, pp 49-62. Austin: Society for Design and Process Science 1999.

Chapters in Books

  • Artem Polyvyanyy and Mathias Weske. Flexible Service Systems. In: The Science of Service Systems, Springer, 2010. link.

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Business Process Model Abstraction. In: International Handbook on Business Process Management, Springer, 2009.

  • Schnieders, A. and Weske, M.: Activity Diagram Based Process Family Architectures for Enterprise Application Families. In Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches, pp. 67-76, London, Springer-Verlag, 2007. pdf.

  • Veijalainen, J., Weske, M.: Surveying Mobile Commerce Environments. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (V) 2005: 2702-2711

  • Weske, M., Vossen, G., Puhlmann, F.: Workflow and Service Composition Languages. In: Bernus, P., Mertins, K., Schmidt, G. (Eds.): Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems; Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems. pp 369-390. 2nd Edition. Berlin: Springer 2005 pdf

  • Weske, M.: Deadlock Handling in Database Systems. Chapter 18 in: Zhou, Fanti (Editors): Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems, pp 635-657 Marcel Dekker Publisher: New York 2005

  • Veijalainen, J., Weske, M: Modeling Static Aspects of Mobile Electronic Commerce Environments. In: Lim, Siau (Editors) Advances in Mobile Commerce Technologies. Idea Group Publishing: 2003 pdf.

  • G. Vossen, M. Weske: The WASA Approach to Workflow Management for Scientific Applications. In: A. Dogac, L. Kalinichenko, M.T. Özsu, A. Sheth (Eds.): Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability. ASI NATO Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Vol. 164, pp 145-164. Berlin: Springer 1998 pdf.

  • M. Weske, G. Vossen: Workflow Languages. In: P. Bernus, K. Mertins, G. Schmidt (Editors): Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems. (International Handbooks on Information Systems), pp 359-379. Berlin: Springer 1998 pdf.

  • Weske, M: Workflow-Spezifikation in FlowMark. (Kapitel 10.4) In: Workflow-Management: Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Systemen; Facetten einer neuen Technologie. S. Jablonski, M. Böhm, W. Schulze (Hrsg.). Heidelberg: dpunkt 1997.

  • M. Weske, R. Striemer: Vorgehensmodelle. (Kapitel 10.2) In: Workflow-Management: Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Systemen; Facetten einer neuen Technologie. S. Jablonski, M. Böhm, W. Schulze (Hrsg.). Heidelberg: dpunkt 1997.

Conference and Workshop Articles

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Luciano García-Bañuelos, and Mathias Weske. Unveiling Hidden Unstructured Regions in Process Models. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, November 2009. pdf

  • Sergey Smirnov, Matthias Weidlich, Jan Mendling, and Mathias Weske. Action Patterns in Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009. Springer-Verlag. pdf

  • Matthias Weidlich, Mathias Weske, Jan Mendling. Change Propagation in Process Models using Behavioural Profiles. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'09), Bangalore, India, 21-25 September 2009. IEEE Computer Society. pdf

  • Matthias Weidlich, Alistair Barros, Jan Mendling, and Mathias Weske. Vertical Alignment of Process Models - How can we get there ?. CAiSE 2009 Workshop Proceedings, 10th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'09), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009. LNBIP 29, pp. 71-84, Springer-Verlag. pdf

  • Jonathan Edelman, Alexander Grosskopf, Mathias Weske. Tangible Business Process Modeling: A New Approach. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Stanford University, CA, USA, August 2009. pdf bibtex

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. The Triconnected Abstraction of Process Models. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM). Ulm, Germany, September 2009. pdf

  • Alexander Grosskopf, Jonathan Edelman, Mathias Weske. Tangible Business Process Modeling - Methodology and Experiment Design. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Empirical Research in Business Process Management (ER-BPM '09), Ulm, Germany, September 2009. pdf bibtex

  • Alexander Grosskopf, Jan Brunnert, Stefan Wehrmeyer, Mathias Weske. BPMNCommunity.org: A Forum for Process Modeling Practitioners - A Data Repository for Empirical BPM Research. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Empirical Research in Business Process Management (ER-BPM '09), Ulm, Germany, September 2009. pdf bibtex

  • Ahmed Awad, Matthias Weidlich, and Mathias Weske: Specification, Verification and Explanation of Violation for Data Aware Compliance Rules. In proceedings of 7th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC-Service Wave'09), volume 5900 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 500-515. Springer, 2009. pdf

  • Ahmed Awad, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Resolution of compliance violation in business process models: A planning-based approach. In Robert Meersman, Tharam S. Dillon, and Pilar Herrero, editors, OTM Conferences (1), volume 5870 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 6-23. Springer, 2009. pdf

  • Ahmed Awad and Mathias Weske: Visualization of Compliance Violation in Business Process Models. (Accepted) in 5th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence BPI'09pdf

  • Ahmed Awad, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske: Towards Resolving Compliance Violations in Business Process Models. In 2nd International Workshop on Governance Risk and Compliance in Information Systems GRCIS'09 pdf

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. On Application of Structural Decomposition for Process Model Abstraction. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing, Leipzig, Germany, March 2009. pdf

  • Matthias Weidlich, Gero Decker, Alexander Großkopf, and Mathias Weske. BPEL to BPMN: The Myth of a Straight-Forward Mapping. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2008), Monterrey, Mexico, November 2008. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Mathias Weske. Flexible Process Graph: A Prologue. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Monterrey, Mexico, November 2008. pdf

  • Stefan Krumnow, Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Modellierung von EPKs im Web mit Oryx. Proceedings of the 7th GI-Workshop Geschäftsprozessmanagement mit Ereignisgesteuerten Prozessketten (EPK), Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2008. pdf

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Reducing Complexity of Large EPCs. Geschäftsprozessmanagement mit Ereignisgesteuerten Prozessketten (MobIS: EPK), Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2008. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Hagen Overdick and Mathias Weske. Oryx - Sharing Conceptual Models on the Web. Demo Session of the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), LNCS 5231, pp. 536-537, Barcelona, Spain, October 2008. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Process Model Abstraction: A Slider Approach. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC), München, Germany, September 2008. pdf

  • Ahmed Awad, Artem Polyvyanyy, and Mathias Weske. Semantic Querying of Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC), München, Germany, September 2008. pdf

  • Ahmed Awad, Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Efficient Compliance Checking using BPMN-Q and Temporal Logic. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), LNCS 5240, pp. 326-341, Milan, Italy, September 2008. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Hagen Overdick and Mathias Weske. Oryx - An Open Modeling Platform for the BPM Community. Demo Session of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), LNCS 5240, pp. 382-385, Milan, Italy, September 2008. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Instance Isolation Analysis for Service-Oriented Architectures. Proceedings of the IEEE 2008 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2008. IEEE Computer Society. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Alexander Lueders, Hagen Overdick, Kai Schlichting and Mathias Weske. RESTful Petri Net Execution. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM), Milan, Italy, September 2008. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Lutz Gericke, Stefan Krumnow and Mathias Weske. Prozessmodellierung und -ausführung im Web. Proceedings of Methoden, Konzepte und Technologien für die Entwicklung von dienstebasierten Informationssystemen (EMISA), Sankt Augustin, Germany, September 2008. pdf

  • Artem Polyvyanyy, Mathias Weske. Hypergraph-Based Modeling of Ad-Hoc Business Processes. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Process Management for Highly Dynamic and Pervasive Scenarios (BPM: PM4HDPS), Milan, Italy, September 2008. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Kerstin Pfitzner and Mathias Weske. Modeling Service Choreographies using BPMN and BPEL4Chor. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), LNCS 5074, pp. 79-93, Montpellier, France, June 2008. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Matthias Weidlich, Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Efficient Analysis of BPEL 2.0 Processes using pi-Calculus. Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC), pp. 266-274, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, December 2007. IEEE Computer Society. pdf examples pdf

  • Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Local Enforceability in Interaction Petri Nets. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), LNCS 4714, pp. 305-319, Brisbane, Australia, September 2007. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Gero Decker, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann and Mathias Weske. BPEL4chor: Extending BPEL for Modeling Choreographies. Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 2007. pdf

  • Schaffner, J., Meyer, H., Weske, M.: A Formal Model for Mixed Initiative Service Composition. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 2007. pdf

  • Gero Decker and Mathias Weske. Behavioral Consistency for B2B Process Integration. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), LNCS 4495, pp. 81-95, Trondheim, Norway, June 2007. Springer Verlag. pdf

  • Meyer, H. and Weske, M.: Light-Weight Semantic Service Annotations through Tagging. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Chicago, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4294, p. 465-470 (2006).pdf

  • Puhlmann, F., and Weske, M.: Interaction Soundness for Service Orchestrations. In A. Dan and W. Lamersdorf (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2006), volume 4294 of LNCS, Chicago, USA, Springer Verlag (2006) 302-313 pdf

  • Kuropka, D., Vossen, G., and Weske, M.: Workflows in Computation Grids. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06). IEEE Computer Science. Chengsta, China, October 2006. pdf

  • Kuropka, D., Bog, A., and Weske, M.: Semantic Enterprise Services Platform: Motivation, Potential, Functionality and Application Scenario. Proceedings of Tenth IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing (EDOC 2006). pp 253-264. IEEE, 2006 pdf

  • Meyer, H., Weske, M.: Automated Service Composition using Heuristic Search. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), Vienna, Austria, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4102, p. 81-96 (2006). pdf

  • Frank Puhlmann, Mathias Weske: Investigations on Soundness Regarding Lazy Activities. In In S. Dustdar, J.L. Fiadeiro and A. Sheth (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), volume 4102 of LNCS, Vienna, Austria, Springer Verlag (2006) 145-160 pdf

  • Gero Decker, Frank Puhlmann, Mathias Weske: Formalizing Service Interactions. In In S. Dustdar, J.L. Fiadeiro and A. Sheth (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), volume 4102 of LNCS, Vienna, Austria, Springer Verlag (2006) 414-419 pdf

  • Veijalainen, J. and Weske, M.: Reference Architecture for Semantic Service Provisioning Platform. Accepted for The IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services. Calgary, Canada, July 2006. pdf

  • Overdick, H., Puhlmann, F., Weske, M.: Towards a Formal Model for Agile Service Discovery and Integration, In Proceedings of the ICSOC Workshop on Dynamic Web Processes at the 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, pages 25–37. IBM Tech Report RC 23822, 2005. pdf.

  • Overdick, H., and Meyer, H., and Weske, M.: Plaengine: A System for Automated Service Composition and Process Enactment. Accepted for: WWW Service Composition with Semantic Web Services. Compiegne, France, September 19, 2005 pdf.

  • Puhlmann, F. and Weske, M.: Using the Pi-Calculus for Formalizing Workflow Patterns. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2005). Springer LNCS 3649, pp 153-168. Springer: Berlin Heidelberg, 2005 pdf.

  • Gajewski, M., Meyer, H., Momotko, M., Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Dynamic Failure Recovery of Generated Workflows. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp 982-986. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005. pdf

  • Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Plaengine: Ein System zur Planung und Ausführung von Workflows. BTW 2005: Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web, 11. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs "Datenbanken und Informationssysteme", LNI 65 GI, pp 225-234, 2005. pdf

  • Hündling, J., Sievers, J. and Weske, M.: NaXDB - Realizing Pipelined XQuery Processing in a Native XML Database System. Accepted for the 2nd International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P 2005) June 16-17, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2005) pdf

  • Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Triggering Replanning in an Integrated Workflow Planning and Enactment System. 8th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS-04), Springer LNCS 3255. 2004 pdf

  • Hündling, J. and Weske, M.: Modeling Quality of Services in Service Oriented Environments. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods (ISoLA 2004), 30th October - 2nd November 2004, Paphos, Cyprus. pdf

  • Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Integrated Workflow Planning and Coordination. In: Marik, V., Retschitzegger, W. Stepankova, O. (Editors): 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp 771-781. Springer LNCS 2736. pdf

  • Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Automated Planning in a Service-Oriented Architecture. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, pp 75-80. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004. pdf

  • Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, and Mathias Weske: Business Process Management: A Survey. In: Proceedings of BPM'2003. pp 1-12. Springer LNCS 2678. Heidelberg: 2003 pdf.

  • Schuschel, H., Weske, M.: Fallbehandlung: Ein neuer Ansatz zur Unterstützung Prozessorientierter Informationssysteme. In: Desel, Weske (Hrsg.) Promise 2002: Prozessorientierte Methoden und Werkzeuge für die Entwicklung von Informationssystemen. GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics Nr. P-21. pp 52-63. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik 2002 pdf.

  • Van der Aalst, W.M.P., M. Weske: The P2P? Approach to Interorganizational Workflows. In: Dittrich, K. R., Geppert, A., Norrie, M. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'01), pp 140-156. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2068. Heidelberg: Springer 2001 pdf.

  • Weske, M., Wirtz, G.: Integrated Modeling of Distributed Software Systems and Workflow Applications. (Minitrack Introduction). In Sprague (Editor): Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS-34); Software Technology Track. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press 2001.

  • Weske, M.: Flexible Workflow Management: Adapt and Bend, but Don't Break!. (Panel Position Statement) In: Dittrich, K. R., Geppert, A., Norrie, M. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'01). Panel "Flexible Support of Work Processes - Balancing the Support of Organisations and Workers", pp 477-481. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2068. Heidelberg: Springer 2001.

  • Weske, M.: Formal Foundation and Conceptual Design of Dynamic Adaptations in a Workflow Management System. In Sprague (Editor): Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS-34) Minitrack Internet and Workflow Automation: Technical and Managerial Issues. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press 2001.

  • M. Weske, T. Goesmann, R. Holten, R. Striemer: A Reference Model for Workflow Application Development Processes. In D. Georgakopoulos, W. Prinz, A.L. Wolf (Eds.) Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Work Activities Coordination and Collaboration (WACC), pp 1-10. ACM 1999. pdf

  • Weske, M.: Object-Oriented Design of a Flexible Workflow Management System. Second East-European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS'98, Sept 8-11 1998, Poznan, Poland. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1475, pp 119-130. Berlin: Springer pdf.

  • Wirtz, G., Weske, M., Giese, H: Extending UML with Workflow Modeling Capabilities. In: Etzion, Scheuermann (Editors): 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'2000), pp 30-41. Springer LNCS 1901. Berlin: Springer 2000 pdf.

  • G. Vossen, M. Weske: The WASA2 Object-Oriented Workflow Management System. In Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, pp 587-589. New York: ACM 1999 pdf.

  • Kuropka, D., Weske, M.: Transparent and Flexible Storage of Application Objects in CORBA Environments. Demonstration at ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA'00 Companion, pp 169-170. New York: ACM 2000 pdf.

  • Weske, M.: Workflow Management Through Distributed and Persistent CORBA Workflow Objects.. In Jarke, Oberweis (Eds.): Proc. 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'99), pp 446-450. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1626, Berlin: Springer 1999 pdf.

  • M. Weske, G. Vossen, C. Bauzer Medeiros, F. Pires: Workflow Management in Geoprocessing Applications. In Proc. 6th ACM International Symposium Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS'98), 88-93, 1998.

  • R. Siebert, M. Weske: Flexibilität und Kooperation in Workflow-Management-Systemen. In: Th. Herrmann, K. Just-Hahn (Hrsg.) Groupware und organisatorische Innovation (D-CSCW'98). Stuttgart: Teubner 1998, 347-348.

  • Weske, M.: Flexible Modeling and Execution of Workflow Activities. In Proceedings of 31st Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Software Technology Track (Vol VII), 713-722. IEEE Computer Society Press 1998.

  • Weske, M.: State-based Modeling of Flexible Workflow Executions in Distributed Environments. In Proceedings of The Third Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT), Volume 2: Issues and Applications of Database Technology, pp 94-101. Society for Design and Process Science (Editors: T. Ozsu, A. Dogac, O. Ulusoy) Berlin, July 1998.

  • R. Holten, R. Striemer, M. Weske: Vergleich von Ansätzen zur Entwicklung von Workflow-Anwendungen. In: A. Oberweis; H. Sneed (Hrsg.): Software Management '97, Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Oktober 1997 in München. Teubner, 1997, 258-274..

  • C. B. Medeiros, G. Vossen, M. Weske: GEO-WASA - Combining GIS Technology with Workflow Management. In Proceedings of the Seventh Israeli Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Herzliya, Israel, June 12-13. pp 129-139. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.

  • J. Meidanis, G. Vossen, M. Weske: Using Workflow Management in DNA Sequencing. In Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS'96, June 19-21, 1996, Brussels, Belgium. pp 114-123. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.

  • C. B. Medeiros, G. Vossen, M. Weske: WASA: A Workflow-Based Architecture to Support Scientific Database Applications. Proceedings of the 6th DEXA Conference (Editors: N. Revell, A. M. Tjoa), Springer LNCS 978, pp 574-583, London 1995.

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