CaféDSL Seminars for 2009
Next Seminar
Reasoning about Changes of Corpus of Documents: Reasoning on Association Rules
and
Axiomatic Characterization of Task Oriented Negotiation
Presenter(s): Prof. Laurent Perrussel and Dr. Dongmo Zhang
Date: Monday 16th of November, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract (Reasoning about Changes of Corpus of Documents: Reasoning on Association Rules): Evaluating changes in documentation of technical products is a key issue in knowledge management. A product may be declined in different versions and one way to evaluate changes is to compare the sets of documents which describe each version. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework for exhibiting changes between sets of documents. This framework is based on the representation of the sets of documents in terms of association rules and on the definition of first order predicates for reasoning with these association rules. The aim of the reasoning stage is to exhibit the differences between the sets of documents. These predicates show what rules are specific to a corpus or how differs the usage of concepts appearing in the associations rules. The framework is experimented with the comparison of two corpuses of documents which describe documentation about two different versions of a spatial component.
Abstract (Axiomatic Characterization of Task Oriented Negotiation): Task-oriented domain (TOD) represents a domain of negotiation problems that can be abstracted as task sharing among autonomous agents. A wide range of real-world negotiation problems, such as parcel delivery, database queries, job allocation, and so on, can be described in this domain.
Although negotiation or bargaining in general has been a long established research area in economics and social science, the research was motivated mostly by the problems from economics or social science. This work aims to demonstrate that problems from computer science or AI, such as TOD, can display significantly different properties therefore require different formalization. As we will see, none of the classical game-theoretic bargaining solutions, such as Nash’s, Kalai-Smorodinsky’s and Egalitarian, can be directly applied to TOD without randomisation of possible deals. Even with randomisation, those three most classical solutions become indifferent. In fact, a solution to TOD requires a dual-optimisation process: maximizing cost reduction and minimizing workload imbalance. A construction of bargaining solution to TOD and its axiomatic characterization will be presented.
Discovering constraints in unknown constraint networks.
Presenter(s):Mr. Graham Billiau
Date: Monday 2nd November, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: The optimising web will only be of practical use if it is possible to automatically generate the constraint network. To this end I will describe the only other work in this area, constraint acquisition by Barry O'Sullivan, and show why it is unsuitable for the optimising web. If there is still time remaining I will also outline my planned approach.
Greening organisations with IT
Presenter(s):Dr Helen Hasan
Date: Monday 19th of October, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: For human enterprises to perform effectively, they need to develop social capital as people meet, communicate, collaborate and coordinate activities. Traditional ways of working, meeting face-to-face, the daily routine of ‘going to work’, printing out material to read and so on, have a significant carbon footprint. Greener IT-enabled alternatives have been around for some time, namely teleconferencing, telecommuting, the virtual office, group decision support systems, and digital document management. However, their uptake has not been widespread as people have resisted the combination of technical, economic, social and cultural changes to the way things are done. My work in research and consulting provides indicators and direction for organisations to change their ways of working using greener ICT tools and processes. In particularly I take a holistic view that looks at the ultimate purpose behind what we do and asks if it can be done just as well or better in a more environmentally responsible way.
Emerging Trends in Services Science
Presenter(s):Prof. Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 12th of October, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Beyond Soundness: On the Verification of Semantic Business Process Models
Presenter(s):Ingo Weber
Date: Monday 14th of September, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: The verification of control-flow soundness is well understood as an impor- tant step before deploying business process models. However, the control flow does not capture what the process activities actually do when they are executed. Semantic annotations offer the opportunity to take this into account. Inspired by semantic Web service approaches such as OWL-S and WSMO, we consider process models in which the individual activities are annotated with logical preconditions and effects, specified relative to an ontology that axiomatizes the underlying business domain. Verification then addresses the overall process behavior, arising from the interaction between control-flow and behavior of individual activities. To this end, we combine notions from the workflow community with notions from the AI actions and change literature. We introduce a formal execution semantics for annotated business processes. We point out four verification tasks that arise, concerning precondition/effect conflicts, reachability, and executability. We examine the borderline between classes of processes that can, or cannot, be verified in polynomial time, and present algorithms for a class of processes where verification is tractable.
A survey of process mining in ProM
Presenter(s):Jantima Polpinij
Date: Monday 7th of September, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Material: Slides
Dealing With Imprecise Compliance Requirements
Presenter(s): Evan Morrison and Prof. Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 31st of August, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Business process compliance management is a field of study involving the co-ordination of business process management and compliance systems. A compliance system is an organisation wide tool that links legislative and business rules to organization policies and processes. The objective of such a system is to promote a self sustaining level of operations that minimizes the losses caused to the business through breaches of laws or internal misappropriations. We view a compliance system in a similar fashion to that of an accounting system where each process is treated as a transaction. Each process may be monitored and valuations of costing and benefits associated to each task. Both high order policy creation as well as low order transactional histories of single processes must be considered to obtain a complete picture of current operations. In this seminar we will present a method for measuring the degree of compliance that each business process may achieve.
XPath, Tree Logic and Algebra
Presenter(s):Prof. Hong-Cheu Liu
Date: Monday 24th of August, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: I briefly review expressivity results for navigational fragments of XPath 1.0 and 2.0 as well as Regular XPath. The question of which algebras are appropriate for representing query plans for Core XPath 2.0 expressions will be discussed. I also provide a list of equations axiomatisating query equivalence in XPath 2.0. This talk ends with some open questions.
Speaker Bio:
Dr Liu obtained his B.S. (Math.) and M.S. (Eng. Science)
degrees from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He
received his Ph.D. degree from ANU in 2000. Prof. Liu has
taught previously taught at National Cheng Kung University
(Taiwan), QUT and UoW (Australia) and Providence University
(Taiwan ). Prof. Liu’s research interests are Database Systems
and Data Mining. In particular, his research focuses on theory
of database query languages, and logical and algebraic
frameworks for data mining.
Representation and reasoning in Clinical Artefact Networks (CA-Nets)
Presenter(s):Assoc. Prof. Andrew Miller and Prof. Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 17th of August, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Business Process Redesign Using Planning
Presenter(s):Mr Yang Yu
Date: Monday 10th of August, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Material: Slides
Abstract: Business process redesign is being increasingly considered as difficult. Because modification of model not only involves in fixing bugs or satisfying requirements, but also needs to consider costs, impact to the existing model and minimum changes. Furthermore, changes often cause other bugs which significantly increase spending. The purpose of this research is to offer a framework to design the better and optimized models based on the exist model or modify the original model which is not compliant to be compliant by considering business processes described in the industry standard BPMN notation.
Business Transformations & Enterprise Architecture
Presenter(s):Bhuvan Unhelkar
Date: Wednesday 5th of August, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Business Transformations is an increasingly popular term that describes the process of formally changing an organization. This need for an organization to change can be manyfolds - including competition, regulation and dynamically changing customer demands. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a crucial role in such transformations. This is so because ICT provides the organization with the ability to collaborate at both applications and business level. Cloud computing, Web 2.0 and SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) are the technologies that facilitate such collaboration, and the approach to incorporating these technologies within the business falls under the umbrella of Enterprise Architecture. This seminar aims to present ICT-based Enterprise Architecture as a key driver/enabler of Business Transformation; Other drivers are alluded to in this seminar, but not discussed in detail.
Speaker Bio:
Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has 27 years of
strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) and their application to business and
management. He is the founding principal of MethodScience.com and has
notable consulting and training expertise in software engineering
(modelling, processes and quality), enterprise architecture, project
management, collaborative web services and mobile business. He is an adjunct
Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney and has
authored/edited fourteen books in the areas of globalization, mobile
business, software quality, business analysis, business processes and the
UML. Dr. Unhelkar is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, Life
member of Computer Society of India, Rotarian at St.Ives.
How people find local businesses on the internet
Presenter(s):Andrew Connery
Date: Monday 27th of July, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Material: Slides
Abstract: Nearly everyone uses Google as the primary means to find all types of information online, and usually it works really well, however finding a local tradesperson or business can often be quite difficult. Andrew shares his insights about the current state of 'local search' and provides examples of how search engines compile their SERPs and demonstrates the in-built bias towards larger non-local websites and online directories. In addition to conducting Doctoral research at School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Andrew Connery is the Founder and MD of Your Online Community
The Representation of User Presence, and the Modelling, Controlling, and Providing the Oppotunity to Capture an Audit Stream of Collaboration Activity Over Multiple Heterogenous ICT Devices as "Cilques" in a Highly Scalable, and Configurable Environment.
Presenter(s):Owen Thomas
Date: Monday 20th of July, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Clique Space(TM) is a concept whereby the Interaction of two or more individual parties (users) are modelled. Since the telegraph, there have been an ever increasing number of devices that accomplish remote, electronic, and real-time (synchronous) or near real-time (asynchronous) participation in collaborative tasks. The proliferation of such media these devices make available will increase the complexity of managing electronic collaboration. The following will therefore become more onerous to manage as time advances:
- device connection semantics
- contact lists;
- media transience limited term use
- robustness and fault-tolerance
- user identification and affiliation
- user and collaboration activity audit logging
- mixed media collaborations
- security, privacy, and awareness
- social interaction and teamwork
Review of another approach to process abstraction
Presenter(s): Tri A. Kurniawan
Date: Monday 13th of July, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Review of another approach to process abstraction
Presenter(s): Tri A. Kurniawan
Date: Monday 6th of July, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: The presentation will discuss two other approaches in business process abstraction as the additional approaches to the previous ones which have been presented before. The first approach relies on the need to enable effective cross-organizational collaborations between process provider and process consumer. The provider has to offer views on its internal processes by hiding details that are secret to or irrelevant for the consumer. Two steps are provided i.e. a non-customized process views on structured process models and a customized process view. Second approach builds on depicting the diversity and variation of the perception of different users towards business processes with process views. By this approach we can derive a process view from another view or compose from multiple views.
Acquiring Lexical Variation Ontology
Presenter(s): Jantima Polpinij
Date: Monday 29th of June, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: This work is to propose a method of acquiring lexical variation ontology to handle a problem of changing form of the noun and the verb in part of speech (POS). This case can lead to unclear analysis in natural language processing (NLP) such as information extraction, text classification, and so on. The method consists of five processes: tokenization, morphological analysis, term extraction, verification, and transformation. Finally, the lexical variation ontology is represented in structured XML schemas. Indeed, this method is only a part of method for acquiring business rules from requirement artefacts in particular of requirement specification documents.
Strategic Alignment of Services
Presenter(s): Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 22nd of June, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
BPMN Model Compliance through Automated Redesign
Presenter(s): Young Yu
Date: Monday 15th of June, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Given a BPMN model, redesign it to provide better models or modify non-compliant models to be compliant. Steps: 1.Transform BPMN model to the language which planners can understand 2.Let planners to design models based on planning language. 3.Transform plans generated by planners to BPMN models. 4.Check proximity between BPMN models and the original model. Find which model is closest to the original model.
SeamCAD - A Hierarchy-Oriented Modeling Language and a Computer-Aided Tool for Enterprise Architecture
Presenter(s): Dr. Lam-Son Lę
Date: Monday 1st of June, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Material: Slides
SeamCAD - A Hierarchy-Oriented Modeling Language and a Computer-Aided Tool for Enterprise Architecture
Presenter(s):Dr. Lam-Son Lę
Date: Monday 25th of May, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Modeling Enterprise Architecture requires representing multiple diagrams of an enterprise, which typically shows the multiples business entities, IT systems, even software components and the services they offer. This could be done by a team of stakeholders having different backgrounds. One way to do this is to structure the model into hierarchical levels each of which can be of interest of just some, not all, stakeholders. Due to the differences in their background, stakeholders - the modelers may not want to use a single modeling approach, even a widely-recognized one, to build the enterprise model, which can be shared by the whole team. Developing a modeling framework that can be applied uniformly throughout the entire enterprise model and that can be used by all stakeholders is challenging. First, the framework should have a uniform approach to specifying the services offered by business entities, IT systems and software components and to describing their implementation across hierarchical levels. Second, the framework should allow the stakeholders to represent the service specification and the service implementation of multiple business entities and IT systems, even within the same hierarchical level. Third, the services offered by those entities and systems should be represented at different levels of granularity. Last but not least, the modeling framework should maintain the well-formedness of the enterprise model and the consistency between different diagrams opened by different stakeholders of the team. Today, there exist a few modeling methods or development processes in the field of Enterprise Architecture, as well as in software and system modeling that can address these issues to some extent. Among them, Adora, KobrA and OPM best meet the aforementioned four criteria, although they were not initially developed for modeling Enterprise Architecture. As a study on the state of the art, we analyzed these methods with respect to the four aforementioned modeling challenges. In this thesis, we define a modeling language and present a computer- aided tool for modeling Enterprise Architecture hierarchically. This modeling language allows the modeler to structure an enterprise into hierarchical levels, in terms of both organization and services. The computer-aided modeling tool helps the modeler visually build her model across levels and brings all levels together to make a coherent, well-formed model. Enterprise models can be visually built and represented in a notation that is based on the Unified Modeling Language using this tool. The modeling language is formally defined in Alloy: a lightweight declarative language based on first order logic and set theory. The data manipulated in the tool is verified against the Alloy code that formalizes the language. The modeling language and the computer-aided modeling tool constitute a hierarchy-oriented framework called SeamCAD that specifically address the four aforementioned issues. This framework has been applied several projects, both in industry and academic settings. We evaluated it by inviting external practitioners, researchers and master's students in our university to use it and to give their feedback.
Speaker Bio:
Lam-Son Le received his PhD in November 2008 at EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the main author of serveral IEEE
conference/workshop papers and co-published two journal papers
mainly in the domain of enterprise modeling and service
engineering. His topics of research include Object-Oriented
Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented
Architecture, Business Process Modeling, Computer-Aided
Modeling Tool, Object-Oriented Design Patterns and Reference-
Model of Open Distributed Processing.
Real Life Supply Chain Consulting: The Buzz and the Bees
Presenter(s):Dr. Peter Robertson
Date: Monday 18th of May, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Service Governance
Presenter(s):Evan Morrison
Date: Monday 11th of May, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Collaborative annotation of clinical process models: Leveraging social networking within specialist communities of practice
Presenter(s):Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 4th of May, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
A new approach for distributed constraint optimisation
Presenter(s):Graham Billiau
Date: Monday 20th of April, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Distributed constraint optimisation is a very useful tool for solving problems of all kinds. However few of the existing algorithms can cope with dynamic problems. I will present the details of a new algorithm called Support Based Distributed Optimisation that is designed to solve these dynamic problems.
Green IT in Australia - A survey
Presenter(s):Graeme Philipson, Research Director, Connection Research and IT columnist, Sydney Morning Herald
Date: Monday 6th April, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Connection Research has recently conducted a survey of nearly 300 Australian CIOs about their organisations' Green IT actions and attitudes. Research director Graeme Philipson will present the highlights of the findings, which show which industries are leaders and which industries are laggards. The research breaks Green IT in five areas: End user actions, enterprise and data centre actions, lifecycle and procurement, measurement and monitoring, and IT as an enabler to lower the carbon footprint of the whole organisation. The data has been used to develop a 'Green IT Readiness Index' as a benchmark to allow organisations to measure their Green IT implementation against that of their peers.
Speaker Bio:
Graeme Philipson is founder and Research Director of Connection Research, a market
research and analysis firm specialising in the convergence of sustainable, digital and
environmental technologies. He has been in the high tech industry for more than 30 years,
most of that time as a market researcher, analyst and journalist.
Mr Philipson is author of Connection Research's innovative Green IT, Sustainable Home
and Connected Home reports, and heads up the company's research activities in the
sustainable technology, IT, home automation and electrical industries. He was a Research
Director of leading IT market research company Gartner, founder of MIS magazine, and
for the last ten years has written a weekly IT opinion column in The Sydney Morning Herald.
He lives in Wollongong.
A survey of existing approaches to semantic process annotations
Presenter(s):Kerry Hinge
Date: Monday 30th March, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
The Supply Chain Optimization Audit Methodology
Presenter(s):Saugato Mukerji, Senior Automation Engineer, Bluescope Steel
Date: Monday 16th of March, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Green BPM
Presenter(s):Prof. Aditya Ghose
Date: Monday 9th of March, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
The 5-S Method for Specifying both System and User Interface Requirements: An Application of Activity Theory
Presenter(s):Bob Brown - PhD Student, UoW
Supervised by Dr Ian Piper & A/Prof Peter Hyland
Date: Monday 2nd of March, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: A ten year old, and now much disputed, survey states that 70% of software projects fail. In no other field of engineering would even a quarter of this rate be tolerated. If even a few percent of these failures can be prevented the difference could be counted in billions of dollars. Some as yet unknown proportion of these failures must surely arise from the failure of Software Engineering to adequately address the needs of software customers. The application of rigorous SE formal methods and V&V checking tools may reduce the occurrence of coding errors, but they have limited utility in capturing client utterances and translating these into quantitative requirements. The "5-S" System Analysis & Design (SAD) and Human Computer Interface (HCI) design Method is a newly proposed technique for early phase SE/RE which applies the Russian sociological Activity Theory (previously identified as having potential, but as yet unrealized, application in HCI design) to multi-user SME clients and produces a ‘codable’ requirements specification. No known previous attempt to derive a workable Activity Theoretic HCI or SE/RE method has yet successfully overcome the theory’s inherently flexible framework. No known prior attempt has firmly adhered purely to Activity Theory without introducing one or more other theoretical notions such as “Distributed Usability” etc. The 5-S method (currently in the final stages of normative testing and write-up) seems to have established that feasible SE/RE/HCI can be conducted based purely upon the tenets of Activity Theory. Initial research indicates that 5-S uniquely provides a single coherent theoretical framework from the earliest initial user elicitation, through BPM to codable language-independent Requirements Specification; for both a mediating computerized system and its user interfaces. Furthermore, the Method promises the potential for both usability and V&V testing after deployment. The activity-centric BMP approach contained within the 5-S method may have commercial application in its own right. There are strong preliminary indications that a 5-S flavored BPM could greatly facilitate an organisation in becoming compliant with the ISO:9000 Quality Assurance standard. 5-S is not tied to any extant SE, HCI or RE methodology, but seems initially to be not-inconsistent with the major methods currently in use. It has the potential to provide a unifying end-to-end framework and/or a common basis under which any or many extant methods may be applied or combined. As an entirely new and innovative method, the current research project is a normative exercise in method building and the indication of its feasibility. Future research will address: (a) Development of a full-blown 5-S BPM tool set (b) Development of 5-S as an approach to ISO:9000 compliance (c) formalisation of deontic and temporal constraints (d) creation and application of consistency-checking support techniques (e) creation of a suite of elicitation/analysis/design support tools (f) comparative performance testing of 5-S against other common methods (g) creation of techniques for meshing 5-S with current SE/RE/HCI techniques
A Conversation About the Future of the CCCI
Presenter(s):Dr Helen Hasan Associate Professor in Information Systems. School of Economics
Date: Monday 23rd of February, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: As a founding member of CCCI, I will hold a conversation with those present to 1. Reflect on the past and experiences with some environmentally friendly IT-enabled alternatives to traditional ways of working such as teleconferencing, telecommuting, the virtual office, group decision support systems, and digital document management. 2. Engage in the data collection process (a Q-sort) related to some current research on priorities of implementing new technologies and systems as solutions to problems of climate change. 3. Talk about some future research into new virtual spaces and engaging protocols whereby disparate groups can communication, collaborate and cooperate effectively with low carbon footprints.
Practical experience with business rule systems: The JRules BRMS
Presenter(s):Jon Struthers from CSC Australia
Date: Monday 16th February, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Extracting Business Rules from Requirement Artifacts
Presenter(s): Jantima Polpinij
Date: Monday 9th February, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Business rules are effective for modern business systems because they are operational rules that business organizations follow to perform various activities. They are intended to assert business structure, or to control or influence the behavior of the business. It is well known that business rules are embedded in business process artifacts that can be classified into two categories: text and model. Therefore, this work aims to present two methods of acquisition of business rules that embedded in text and model.
Software Reuse Approaches
Presenter(s): Tri A. Kurniawan
Date: Monday 2nd February, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: Software become a deterministic role in recent our life especially in business applications. There is a high intensity in business competition. There are always software support systems behind top companies such as in banking, education, trading, etc. Business goals such as high quality product, quick time to market, low cost production, etc. could be only achieved by utilizing software. Furthermore, those business goals for software company can be achieved by reusability concept. In general, software companies take into account software reuse approach in order to improve their software development quality and productivity. Until recently years, there are many approaches for utilizing software reuse. Software reuse is the process of building or assembling software systems from predefined software components that are designed for reuse. This paper presents a brief review on many software reuse approaches including subroutines, modules, and objects; components; software product ! lines; and service oriented architecture (SOA). The paper consists of several parts such as introduction to software reuse, description of current software reuse approaches, industrial experiences in software reuse, and conclusion and the future software reuse research. This paper will be the basis of the future research in software reuse during my study. Based on the software reuse approaches reviews, it is concluded that the future research in software reuse will rely on SOA approach since this approach accommodates the heterogeneous and cost-reduction environments trend in the software developments.
Business services as an ecosystem: a holistic view of services
Presenter(s): Prof. Peter Bruza and Marco Fahmi from the faculty of IT, QUT
Date: Monday 19th january, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
Abstract: With the increasing convergence of business strategy and the IT platform, it is important to reach a common understanding of what business services are and how to deal with them. There are two widespread misconceptions about business services in the IT world: that business services are objects and that the business services environment can be managed piecemeal. The first misconception has been raised and addressed in the literature, the second has yet to be dealt with. I argue that a piecemeal approach miss important properties of the business services environment such as its ability to persist over time. I discuss some holistic methods that complement the current approach and might further our understanding of the "health" and "sustainability" of the business services environment.
Evan Morrison will present a 'dry run' for his presentation at APCCM (Wellington, NZ). This presentation will be a look back at Process Integration.
Presenter(s): Evan Morrison
Date: Monday 12th January, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)
George Koliadis will present part two of his report on his PHD internship at IBM research.
Presenter(s): George Koliadis
Date: Monday 5th January, 2009
Venue: 3.224 - SCSSE Common room (Tea/Lunchroom) (Note: 3.224 is on the 2nd floor of Building 3)