eGovernment: It’s a Journey not a Destination

• Christian Rupp — Federal Chancellery, Austria
• Monday, October 12, 2009

Abstract

eGovernment is the synonym for a modern country. Austria is the leading country in this field in Europe. What are the reasons for success and which are the best practices? Which lessons did we learn and how can our results be implemented in other countries?

Speaker

Christian Rupp was appointed as the Federal Executive Secretary for the eGovernment initiative of the Austrian Government in spring 2003 and is since autumn 2005 the spokesperson of the federal platform “Digital Austria” in the Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the ICT and eGovernment activities between local and national governments, municipalities as well as industries. He is also member of the advisory board for information society in the Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the i2010 activities in Austria, as well as in the advisory board of saferinternet.at, the strategic consulting group ICT in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, and the eVoting advisory council of the Federal Minister of Science and Research. Before his activities in the Austrian Federal Chancellery he was nearly ten years long the eBusiness representative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Beyond that he was vice-director communication and marketing, director of the eCenter, adviser for international technology- and know-how-transfer in the Federal Chamber Organisation.

In the last fifteen years Christian Rupp was involved in various committees of the EU-Commission, among others in the i2010 high level group, eEurope steering committee, management committee for pan European government services, eSkills working group, as well as evaluator and external supervisor for eEurope initiatives and the IST program. He was also the organizer of the “eInclusion EU Ministerial Conference & Expo 2008”. Beyond that he functions for many years as a jury or board member for different national and international awards, like the United Nations World Summit on Information Society Award in eContent and Creativity, or organisations, like the International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration.

Future Internet: A Semantics and Services Perspective

• John Domingue — The Open University, Great Britain
• Monday, November 9, 2009

Abstract

With over a billion users, today‘s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. EU is shaping around the idea of the Future Internet for its research programmes for the Seventh Framework Programme and beyond. In this talk I will first outline the broad themes underlying the Future Internet initiative including: Internet of Things, Internet of Services, and Internet of Content and Media. I will then focus on how semantic and Web service technologies will play a vital role in the Future Internet. The talk will be illustrated with examples from existing EU projects.

Speaker

Prof. John Domingue is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University and the President of STI International, a semantics focused networking organization with just under 50 members. He has published over 150 refereed articles in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and the Web and his current work is focused on how semantic technology can automate the management, development and use of Web services.

Currently he serves as the Scientific Director of SOA4All a 13M Euro project which aims at creating a Web of billions of services. Prof. Domingue is also Chair of the Steering Committee for the European Semantic Web Conference Series, Chair of the Future Internet Symposium Series, and Co-Chair of the Conceptual Models of Services Working Group within STI. Within the Future Internet arena he coordinates the Future Internet Service Offer Working Group within the Future Internet Assembly. Prof. Domingue is also serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Web Semantics and the Applied Ontology Journal.

Applying Process Mining to Cross-Organizational Processes

• Wil van der Aalst — Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Monday, November 16, 2009

Abstract

The goal of process mining is to extract information (e.g., process models) from these logs, i.e., process mining describes a family of a posteriori analysis techniques exploiting the information recorded in the event logs. The omnipresence of event logs is an important enabler of process mining. Such information is also present in a cross-organizational setting (e.g., in the form of SOAP messages or EDI messages). Through process mining this information can be used for the discovery of processes, conformance checking, auditing, prediction, diagnostics, and process improvement. See www.processmining.org for more information.

Speaker

Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of Information Systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) having a position in both the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Technology Management. Currently he is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) working within the BPM group there. His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published more than 110 journal papers, 15 books (as author or editor), 225 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 30 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has an H-index of more than 61 according to Google Scholar, making him the Dutch computer scientist with the highest H-index) and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees working on process support.

He has been a co-chair of many conferences including the Business Process Management conference, the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. He is also editor/member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Business Process Management Journal, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Computers in Industry, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, and Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency.

Current Trends in Business Process Management

• Mathias Weske — University of Potsdam, Germany
• Monday, November 23, 2009

Abstract

The explicit representation of business processes and their enactment are important aspects of information systems architectures, especially when it comes to services and their composition. In this talk, current trends in business process management will be highlighted. Based on fundamentals of process orchestrations and choreographies, interacting business processes will be discussed, focusing on modeling their behavioral interfaces. Finally, Oryx will be discussed as an open and extensible platform for defining and sharing process models on the web. Oryx is an open source project maintained by the BPT research group at HPI. Finally, the Signavio-Oryx Academic Initiative will be introduced.

Speaker

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. He leads Oryx, an open source business process management framework on the Web. Dr. Weske has published twelve books and over 70 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 process modeling solutions on the web.

The Quest for the Ultimate Recommender System

• Markus Zanker — University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Monday, November 30, 2009

Abstract

In e-commerce scenarios, recommender systems try to match the right product with the right user and are often appreciated for their ability to increase online conversion and satisfaction rates. In this talk I will present several techniques for improving recommendation algorithms and introduce methods for evaluating and quantifying progress. Furthermore, the talk will consider the limitations of these approaches and explore a variety of open research issues.

Speaker

Markus Zanker is an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Informatics and the director of the Information Management study programme at the University of Klagenfurt. He is also a cofounder and director of ConfigWorks GmbH, a provider of interactive selling solutions. His research interests focus on knowledge-based systems, particularly in the field of interactive sales applications such as product configuration and recommendation. He also works on knowledge acquisition and user modeling for personalization.

The Relevance of Enterprise Ontology for e-Commerce

• Jan Dietz — Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Monday, December 7, 2009

Abstract

E-Commerce is basically doing commerce while making intensely use of modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT). However, it is important to understand the essence of doing commerce independent of the underlying technology. Enterprise Ontology provides such knowledge. It is defined as an implementation-independent understanding of the construction and the operation of an enterprise. Therefore, the ontological model of an enterprise is the ideal starting point for the design and engineering of the supporting ICT-applications. In this lecture, the notion of Enterprise Ontology will be explained by means of two examples from different e-commerce domains (B2B and B2C).

Speaker

Prof.Dr.ir. Jan L.G. Dietz is emeritus professor at Delft University of Technology, and full professor at Lisbon University of Technology. He holds a Master degree in Electrical Engineering and a Doctoral degree in Computer Science. His current research interests are in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Ontology, and Enterprise Governance, the three pillars of Enterprise Engineering. Jan Dietz is the spiritual father of DEMO (Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations), and honorary chairman of the DEMO Center of Expertise.

Searching Lifelong Learner Metadata Using Query Approximation and Relaxation

• Alexandra Poulovassilis — University of London, Great Britain
• Monday, December 14, 2009

Abstract

Supporting the needs of lifelong learners is leading to research into new learner-centred models of delivering learning resources and opportunities. In this direction, the L4All system aims to support lifelong learners in planning and reflecting on their learning. In this talk, some L4All system’s facilities such as finding “people like me” based on string similarity metrics or “what next” for identifying possible future learning options will be described. The second part of the talk will explore more flexible querying techniques, which are based on a combination of query approximation and query relaxation techniques. They would provide users with more flexibility in formulating their requirements and exploring alternative formulations for the timeline search.

Speaker

Alex Poulovassilis has a BA in Maths from Cambridge Unversity, and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Birbeck, London University. Her PhD and postdoctoral research was in data models and languages. She held posts at University College London and King’s College London before returning to Birkbeck as Reader in 1999 and Professor of Computer Science from 2001. Since 2003 she has been Co-Director of the London Knowledge Lab, a multi-disciplinary research institution which aims to explore the ways in which digital technologies and new media are shaping the future of knowledge and learning. Her current research is in querying, integration and personalisation of information, with applications in e-learning and e-science.

From Digital Business to Digital Society

• Paul Timmers — ICT for Inclusion in the European Commission
• Monday, January 11, 2010

Abstract

The changes that the digital economy has brought in businesses in terms of value chains, business models, client relationships, organisational cultures and ultimately in innovation are starting to be felt across society, from public services like health and social care, social capital building in communities, to relationships between governments and citizens. How do these changes take effect, which lessons did we learn and how are digital business and digital society becoming interlinked? This talk will address some answers to these questions.

Speaker

Dr. Paul Timmers is Head of Unit of ICT for Inclusion in the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media. Previously he headed the eGovernment unit (EU policy, research and promotion). He has been a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the information society and telecommunications policy portfolios. Other activities in the European Commission included electronic commerce policy and programme development. Recently he was awarded an EU Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA.

Paul Timmers has been a manager in product marketing and head of software development in a large IT company and has co-founded a software start-up. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. He has widely published in the field of technology and policy, including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities and business schools across the world.

Innovative Methods for Service Engineering and Management

• Rudi Studer — University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Monday, January 18, 2010

Abstract

Services constitute the predominant sector of our economy. However, they were neglected by research for a long time. The Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) initiative aims at establishing service science as a multidisciplinary research area. Besides giving a general overview of SSME, this talk is about concrete challenges that arise when companies deploy service-oriented architectures and applications. One of them is to formally describe services in order to support discovery of the right service for a given task. In most cases, not only descriptions of functionality and quality aspects, but also of the terms and conditions of a service are significant. This includes usage policies of the input data, the output data, and the service itself. Usage policies restrict actions on services and data and impose obligations on actions.

Speaker

Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB. In addition, he is director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, Service Science, and Semantic Grid. Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and member of the executive board of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications. He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects, among others the DFG Graduate School Information Management and Market Engineering (IME), the EU Integrated Project NeOn (as Technical Director), and the THESEUS research program funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). He is one of the vice presidents of the Semantic Technology Institute International (STI2).

Computational Persuasive Systems for Small Groups in a Museum

• Oliviero Stock — ITC-Irst, Italy
• Monday, January 25, 2010

Abstract

In this talk I will present some persuasive systems we are developing and take a specific aim: can technology help orienting natural face-to-face communication to a cultural discussion? A museum visit can be considered successful if a conversation about the cultural experience develops. We foresee a stop at the museum café to be the ideal situation to introduce a tabletop interface meant to foster the conversation of the visitors. In a second situation, a dramatic computer-based presentation genre has been devised specifically for influencing and assessing mobile small group conversation.

Speaker

Oliviero Stock, Irst senior fellow, has been at ITC-irst since 1988 and has been its Director from 1997 to 2001. His activity is mainly in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, cognitive technologies. He is the author of nearly two hundred peer-reviewed papers and author or editor of twelve volumes, and member of the editorial board of a dozen scientific journals. He has also been an invited speaker at over sixty conferences; participant or coordinator at over twenty panels. He has been Chairman of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and of the Italian AI Association and is an ECCAI Fellow and a AAAI Fellow.

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