Work
About my current and past work.Consulting
My current work comprises consulting clients and giving seminars on various topics in the following areas:- business process management
- process improvement
- service-oriented architecture
- business service modeling
- model-driven engineering
- software modeling in general
Past Research
Most of my publications are available via my DBLP entry
My PhD dissertation "A Framework for Integrated Process and Object Life Cycle Modeling" deals with integrating two different perspectives of modeling business operations: a process perspective and an object perspective. In insurance for instance, one needs to model the steps of the claims management process on the one hand and the life cycles of the claim and payment business objects on the other hand. Creating such models independently may lead to inconsistencies. The dissertation presents an approach for keeping such models consistent.
During my PhD, we also developed a tool called Object Life Cycle Explorer to validate the proposed approach. This tool is a set of Eclipse plug-ins for the IBM WebSphere Business Modeler and can be freely downloaded from IBM alphaWorks. It was used to carry out two evaluation case studies, as described in my dissertation.
