Academic Partners
QUT’s Business Process Management Group is fortunate to maintain close collaborations with the most prestigious BPM groups and researchers in the world.
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TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Wil van der Aalst
Technology Management Department
Dr Hajo Reijers
The TU Eindhoven has a large research group with a dedicated focus on Business Process Management and is renowed world-wide for its BPM research. Via the Workflow Patterns and YAWL initiatives a long standing relationship exists between our two groups.
Prof. Wil van der Aalst has been an Adjunct Professor at QUT since 2003 and visits our group 1-2 times per year. In fact, many mutual visits of students and staff have taken place in the past few years. A long list of joint publications and a number of substantial joint grants form part of the outcome of the highly productive collaboration between our groups.
Many of our joint research efforts are performed under the umbrella of the joint virtual research centre BPM Center. On its web site you will find many technical reports on the latest outcomes of our joint work.
Current areas of joint interest include Workflow Patterns, YAWL, Business Process Simulation, and Business Process Configuration.
European Research Center for Information Systems
Prof. Dr Jörg Becker
The ERCIS - European Research Center for Information Systems - is a network of scientists that conduct cooperative research in the field of integrated information systems development and organizational design. For the first time, core competencies in the discipline of information systems are interrelated with issues in the field of computer science, business administration and specific legal issues within an institutional framework. Thus, a holistic view of information system development and organizational design issues can be ensured.
Due to its outstanding reputation in both research and teaching within the field of information systems and business administration, the University of Münster has been selected by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia to found the European Research Center for Information Systems. Its objective is to undertake joint research projects that span different disciplines and countries, thus fostering research at a level that cannot be achieved by individual go-it-alone projects. The exchange of researchers, such as PhD students, lecturers or (associate) professors, is encouraged and cooperative masters and doctoral programs are also part of the overall objective.
A number of students from the ERCIS have conducted research at QUT’s BPM Group as part of their PhD studies or their Masters/Bachelor theses as so called Occupational Trainee students. Dr Jan Recker from the University Münster conducted his entire PhD research at QUT and is now a Senior Lecturer in the Group. Mr. Thomas Kohlborn from the University Münster is currently enrolled in our PhD program working in the area of Service Ecosystems. Prof. Michael Rosemann has a Masters and a PhD from the University of Münster.
Stevens Institute of Technology
Howe School of Technology Management
Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation
Assist. Prof. Michael zur Muehlen
Stevens Institute of Technology, founded 1870, is a private university with a focus on technology management and engineering, located in the New York metro area. Stevens has been ranked by Forbes.com at #3 among US research universities for the high percentage of return on its research investment. It has been named one of the "25 Most Connected Campuses 2009" by The Princeton Review and Seventeen magazine. Hoboken was named among the 20 Best College Towns in the US in the same survey.
Faculty of the Howe School conduct applied, interdisciplinary research in a number of areas that support the mission of the school and the University’s theme of Technogenesis, where faculty, students and industry jointly nurture research concepts to commercialization and back to the classroom. Applied research focuses on understanding and developing solutions for practice-oriented problems in areas that are of relatively immediate interest to a real-world entity such as a business, a government agency, or a branch of the armed services.
The Center of Excellence for Business Process Innovation is an association of researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology and affiliates from several international Universities and Companies. Research projects within the center address the question of how organizations can better understand their processes, create innovative process designs, and leverage technology support for their processes. Specific projects address the use of standardized representations for the design of enterprise architectures, the management of operational risk in processes, and the integration of rules and processes for governance, risk, and compliance purposes.
Dr zur Muehlen is an affiliated member of our BPM Group and a regular visitor here in Brisbane. He is a Partner Investigator in a number of our ARC Discovery and Linkage projects. In return, members of our group regularly visit the Howe School of Technology Management.
Currently, we conduct joint research in the areas of BPMN usage and risk-aware business process modeling.
University of Tartu, Estonia
Prof. Marlon Dumas
The Enterprise Software Research Group at University of Tartu conducts research in the field of enterprise system integration, with a focus on methods based on service-oriented architectures and business process management. The group is sponsored by Swedbank and is part of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science which unites three institutions and more than 80 researchers working on problems related to the use of computer systems in a wide spectrum of application domains. The group has ties with several companies in the highly dynamic Estonian software industry, through industry-inspired research projects. Prof. Marlon Dumas is a founding member of QUT’s BPM Group and he maintains a part-time Associate Professor position at QUT. Collaborations with the BPM Group take the form of co-supervision of PhD students, mutual visits and numerous joint publications.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, led by Prof. Oliver Günther, PhD, has maintained a leading position in the acquisition of external funding in Germany. Since 2003, the institute has acted as coordinator for the Berlin Research Center on Internet Economics, “InterVal” (“Internet and Value Chains”). Since its inception, the German Ministry of Research and Education has funded the center with more than 4 million Euro. Since 2006, the German Ministry for Labor and Economics has been funding “Ko-RFID”, a project on collaboration issues in RFID-based value chains. Also in 2006, the institute coordinated a highly visible study for the Ministry of Research on the perception and social consequences of ubiquitous computing technologies (“TAUCIS”). Ubiquitous computing has been a major focus of the institute’s work not only since 2005, when it started an Interdisciplinary Center on the subject. The center brings together Humboldt faculty from a broad variety of disciplines including computer science, business administration, economics, psychology, library sciences, geography, and law. The center’s objective is the integrated study of ubiquitous computing technologies – their design, their implementation, but also their impact on our economies and on society as a whole. An interdisciplinary approach is essential in this context.
With regard to teaching, the Institute has been instrumental in establishing a new master program in information systems, which is conducted jointly with Humboldt’s computer science department. The program regularly receives a large number of applications, and our recent graduates have fared very well on the job market. The achievements of the past years would not have been possible without the support of partners in Germany and abroad, in academia, industry, and public administration. In particular, we would like to thank our public sponsors: the German Ministry of Research and Education, the German Ministry of Economics and Technology, and the German Research Foundation. Special thanks also goes to our industrial partners: SAP, Daimler, GERRY WEBER, Wellmann, Behr, PSI, IBM and Oracle are just a few of the companies with whom we have been working closely and whose support we greatly appreciate.
Prof. Jan Mendling is a junior professor with the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. After receiving a PhD degree (Dr. rer. soc. oec) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria) in 2007 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with the BPM group at Queensland University of Technology until June 2008. The close cooperation between Jan and members of the BPM group as continued in form of joint publications and research projects since he started in Berlin. He is looking forward to visiting the BPM group on a regular basis.
University of Liechtenstein
The Liechtenstein Group is one of the most active BPM-research groups in Europe. Located at the University of Liechtenstein, with its Institute on Information Systems the group is entirely devoted to BPM research from various perspectives. Special areas of interest are reference modelling, operations research, software engineering, and value assessment. One recent outcome of the group’s research endeavours is the concept of Value Based Process Management which is constantly further developed and applied. Other fields of international recognition include Scheduling and Algorithmic Trading, Enterprise Content Management in BPM, and the management of creativity-intensive business processes.
The team conducts research projects funded by both industry partners and the European Union. The institute offers an International Master of Science in Business Process Engineering, an Executive Master in Business Process Management and a PhD Programme in Information and Process Management. The Liechtenstein Group has emerged as a hub for researchers from abroad, passionately contributing to BPM research in the unique Alpine environment.
QUT’s BPM Group has a very close working relationship with the Liechtenstein Group. Jan vom Brocke and Michael Rosemann are the co-editors of the handbook of Business Process Management (Springer 2009) and Stefan Seidel spent a substantial time at QUT as part of his research on creativity-intensive processes.
No doubt, that skiing and boarding in winter times, just as hiking, sailing and gliding in summer times contributes to the spirit of BPM research in Liechtenstein.
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
The University of Calabria is a public, medium-sized Italian university with about 36,000 students. Since its establishment in 1972, the University of Calabria has clearly set out the strategies for the development of its international dimension. In the past twenty years several bilateral agreements were established by the University of Calabria with European and other foreign universities. Such agreements aim at encouraging cooperation in the fields of research and didactic activities. Emphasis to international relationships among higher education institutions was provided by the launching of European programmes such as ERASMUS, in the 80s, which paved the way to student mobility activities. In particular, double level degrees were created as a relevant didactic offer to students participating in these exchanges. Among these there are the conventions established with the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), with the University of Applied Sciences Fachhochschule Bochum (Germany) and with the Universidad de Jaen (Spain), and internationally with the University of Kentucky and University of Chicago (USA).
Apart from the participation in programmes co-financed by the EU, the University of Calabria has established contacts with international organisations such as FAO, UNESCO of the United Nations, and OECD. Internationalisation will be further implemented through other transnational research and didactic projects as a form of mission embedded by the University of Calabria. As an interesting outcome to these mobility experiences, international students who live and study on a permanent basis on campus created a small but lively community. Currently a special program for foreign postgraduate students is being implemented.