EII-ITEE Seminar
9am Friday 15 August 08
Room 78-622 St Lucia Campus Uni of Queensland

SPEAKER: Dr Aditya Ghose

TITLE: Managing business process non-compliance

ABSTRACT: It is widely recognized that business process compliance
management is a critical imperative across a wide range of organizations.
It is also widely recognized as a hard problem. In this talk, we will
focus on the problem of non-compliance resolution. In particular, we aim
to better understand the alternative courses of action available to deal
with process models that violate compliance obligations. We will explore
two alternative (and occasionally competing) intuitions that can be
brought to bear on this setting: inertia and optimization. We describe the
PCTk tool, which relies on lightweight semantic annotations of process
models, a simple graph encoding of these, and a range of process proximity
metrics to decide how best to modify a non-compliant process model. We
will also briefly outline other related projects in the Decision Systems
Lab at UoW, on enterprise process architectures, process lifecycle
management and process discovery.

SPEAKER BIO:
Aditya Ghose is Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software
Engineering at the University of Wollongong and Director of the Decision
Systems Lab. Professor Ghose holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computing
Science from the University of Alberta, Canada (he also spent parts of his
PhD candidature at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign and the University of Tokyo) and a Bachelor of Engineering
degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India. While at the University of Alberta, he received the
Jeffrey Sampson Memorial Award. . His research is (or has been) funded by
the Australian Research Council, the Canadian Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council, the Japanese Institute for Advanced
Information Technology (AITEC) and various Australian government agencies
as well as companies such as Bluescope Steel, CSC, Holocentric and Pillar
Administration. His research has been published in the top venues in
service-oriented computing (SCC and ICSOC), software modelling (ER),
software evolution (IWSSD, IWPSE) and AI (AAAI, AAMAS and ECAI). He has
been an invited speaker at the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar Series in Germany
and the Banff International Research Station in Canada. He has also been a
keynote speaker at several conferences, and program/general chair of
several others. He is a senior technical advisor to several companies in
the areas of constraint programming and business process management, both
in Australia and Canada. He reviews for well-regarded journals such as
Artificial Intelligence, the IBM Systems Journal and the Journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, serves as assessor (Ozreader)
for the Australian Research Council and as an external reviewer for the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and
Science Foundation Ireland.