Managing business process non-compliance
Speaker: Prof Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongoong
When: 2008-08-15 09:00:00
Venue: 78-622
Host: Dr Guido Governatori
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.
Biography: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.
Type: EII Seminar
Contact:Dr Guido Governatori, seminar host (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)