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The BPM 2007 Mini-Sabbaticals program was initiated in order to increase research awareness and collaboration within the worldwide BPM community. Hence, this event is not only a showcase of high quality academic research, but also an opportunity for the many overseas BPM 2007 participants to build a closer network with Australia's BPM community. So, while you're here, why not, besides some tourist activities, identify potential areas of mutual interest with Australia's BPM researchers and spend some time visiting Australian research institutions? The BPM community in Australia is surprisingly large and Australia was in fact the country with the third highest number of participants at the BPM 2006 conference. The related collaborations could range from guest presentations, short visits to indeed shorter sabbaticals.
The table below provides an overview of the universities contributing to this initiative. All of these institutions are excited about welcoming the world's leading BPM community in Australia. If you are interested in collaborating at any of these universities then please email your abbreviated CV, including a selection of recent publication references and a summary of research interests, to Dr Marta Indulska (m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au) together with a list of the top 3 institutions that you would like to collaborate with given your research area.
There is no financial support for the mini-sabbatical program - it is offered as an opportunity to extend your stay in Australia in order to build your BPM contacts network, collaborate, and potentially also arrange future sabbatical visits. An invitation letter can be provided, if required, by the hosting institution once a visit has been confirmed.
Should you have any questions about the mini-sabbatical program, please contact Marta on m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au . |
Queensland University of Technology |
QUT's BPM group comprises more than 40 members and focuses on applied research along the entire business process using a wide range of research methodologies. The group is closely linked with national and international industry partners and located in the CBD of Brisbane. The BPM-related research portfolio covers topics such as BPM maturity management, BPM governance, business process modeling (ARIS, BPMN, Petri nets, UML), BPM case studies, process modeling in the large, ontological analysis of process modeling techniques, BPM and risk management, BPM in Enterprise Systems, workflow patterns, workflow management (YAWL), service-oriented architectures, service-interaction patterns, service ecosystems. QUT's BPM Group 2006 Annual Report (PDF, 1Mb) |
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Monash University |
Monash University is one of the prestigious Group of Eight universities which are Australia's leading research institutions. BPM activities at Monash are happening under the wide umbrella of Intelligent Systems research that spans parts of the Faculties of Business and Economics, Information Technology, Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. These research activities focus on both theoretical and applied aspects of integrating business process modelling with decision modelling and data mining for effective decision support. The research is closely linked with industry partners, in particular, in the health and emergency management sector. The BPM-related research portfolio covers topics such as goal-oriented BPM, business process modeling (ARIS, EPCs), business process simulation and business dynamics, process based decision support, BPM and risk management, process modelling through data mining, process based performance scorecards, process based domain specific ontologies, and process modelling in hospitals and higher education. Monash Caulfield campus is located within nine kilometres (six mile) zone around Melbourne CBD and Caulfield Railway Station is adjacent to the campus. |
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The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dke |
Business Process Management research at The University of Queensland is being undertaken by researchers in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and the UQ Business School, with the two schools enjoying close collaboration on various BPM topics. The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering has been involved in BPM and related research for the last 10 years. This work is primarily undertaken by staff and students of the Data and Knowledge Engineering (www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dke) research group. BPM research of the group has been supported by SAP Research, the Australian Research Council, the CRC for Distributed Systems Technology, and the ARC Research network on Enterprise Information Infrastructure (www.eii.edu.au). Research topics of interest include advanced modelling and verification, dynamic processes and change management, technologies for collaborative business processes (B2B, messaging middleware, standards), novel applications for process management (e-Learning), and infrastructures for BPM based on auto-id technologies and smart devices (senor networks, RFIDs). The UQ Business School concentrates their BPM efforts on studying the major issues experienced by Australian industry when involved in BPM initiatives and on using representational theory to evaluate and improve process modeling languages. This work is primarily carried out through the Business Information Systems researchers within the School, however the School has a spectrum of other research interests that also incorporate BPM topics - for example, supply chain management, virtual organizations, auditing, strategy etc. |
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University of Sydney |
The Business Process Management Research Group at the University of Sydney is comprised of four researchers: Dr Olivera Marjanovic, Dr Ravi Seethamraju, Dr Mark Borman and Dr Jenny Leonard. The group's research interests and expertise are in the areas of:
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University of Tasmania |
BPM research is being conducted at the University of Tasmania's School of Information Systems as part of the research on IS strategy approaches for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The research group consiss of five researchers and is currently involved in Action Research studies involving two Tasmanian SMEs. The group also makes use of ARIS in their research. |
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Information Engineering lab |
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. CSIRO's research helps to create innovative and competitive industries, ensure the growth of a technologically advanced society and maintain healthy environments and lifestyles. The Information Engineering lab of the CSIRO ICT Centre, where the visitor would be hosted, is researching methods for large scale information integration, crossing over enterprise systems, computational models, web services and sensor networks, based on a semantic service oriented architecture. Of particular current interest is the specification and generation of alerts arising from user-specific views of business processes. |
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Macquarie University |
The research in business process management at Macquarie has been funded by Commonwealth (ARC Discovery) as well as internal grants. The main foci in the area are: business service modeling and design, business transaction management, security management in business collaboration, and business service provision and engagement. The application areas which we are particularly interested are: automobile industry, financial institute, healthcare, and supply chain management in general. The group maintains close collaborations with a number of national and international academic research groups, industry and government research institutions, and commercial companies. |
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Curtin University of Technology |
Curtin University of Technology is Western Australia's largest university with internationally focused programs to meet industry's requirement of knowledge and skills. Amongst other research projects, BPM research is undertaken at Curtin Business School in the School of Marketing and the Strategic Procurement Research Unit. BPM Roundtables are conducted quarterly for members of community of practice, including large corporations and the WA Information & Communication Technology network (WA ICT). Major issues of BPM adoption experienced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are also studied here in the wine industry. These initiatives are primarily carried out by Dr. Sandy Chong and her research team. The team aims to incorporate BPM topics with a range of other research interests - such as procurement, supply market intelligence, interorganisational relationship and customer relationship management (CRM). |
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Victoria University |
Victoria University is one of Australia's leading universities, situated in Melbourne across eleven campuses and sites. The university has three faculties and six research centres that study everything from environmental safety to microelectronics, and four institutes providing innovative solutions for industry and the community. A number of researchers at the School of Computer Science and Mathematics (Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science) focus their research on themes related to web services as well as business process modelling. In relation to BPM, the group is in particular interested in research around the topic of collaborative business process modelling (CBPM). The group recently conducted a scenario based requirements analysis of collaborative business process modelling and identified the requirements for CBPM from a variety of perspectives. |
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University of New South Wales (UNSW) |
Since its establishment in 1949, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has developed as one of the most respected teaching and research institutions in Australia. The UNSW mission to be an international university of outstanding quality is reflected in its consistent success in gaining external competitive research grants. UNSW is a member of Universitas 21, a consortium of prestigious universities in North America, Europe and South East Asia, and a member of the Group of Eight research-intensive universities in Australia. UNSW's current enrolment exceeds 40,000 students, with campuses in Sydney and ACT and soon to be in Singapore. Research within the School of Computer Science and Engineering is conducted largely within groups, although collaboration between groups is common. Research groups typically have a number of on-going research projects in specific areas related to the overall area of the groups' interest. The school has identified the following core areas as central to its mission:
The School has unique opportunities to leverage its core areas of strengths to engage in multidisciplinary with other schools and centres within the University. The School's active research program is supported by students working for the PhD and Masters by Research degrees. There are 170 equivalent full-time students enrolled in the School's research degree programs. The School is a founding partner and significant contributor to the following centres: NICTA (National ICT Australia), CRC-SIT (Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre), Centre for Autonomous Systems, and Centre for Interactive Cinema. |
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University of Technology Sydney |
Research in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), is wide ranging and business processes are studied in a variety of contexts. In the area of business, UTS sees business processes as ranging across a wide domain from predefined to emergent, and technologies from workflow management tools to lightweight technologies needed to support the more emergent knowledge based processes. BPM Research in the Faculty benefits from integrating research from the Information Systems, Software Engineering and Computer Systems areas. Research from these areas can be incorporated to help with business process definition, business process implementation, developing needed methodologies, and selecting the appropriate technologies and services needed to implement processes. Emphasis is placed on:
Special application areas include health systems, construction, education and mobile applications |
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University of Auckland |
The University of Auckland is ranked 46 in the world and is a member of Universitas 21. Business Process Management research at the University of Auckland is carried out in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management as well as in the Centre of Digital Enterprise. Our research in business process management is interwoven with several threads of research:
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Swinburne University of Technology |
Swinburne Centre of Information Technology Research (CITR) has about 70 researchers. BPM research at Swinburne is embedded in CITR across several research programs. The research interests and expertise are in the areas of:
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University of South Australia |
The current main BPM activity at the School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, is the investigation of "behavior based integration of business processes", originally under ARC Discovery Grant funding and now CRC funded. The research group investigate s the integration of two systems on the basis of their behaviour description represented in the form of a business process. The project focuses on the reusability of generic integration operators which can be adapted in various domains. The outcomes so far have been published in high quality international conferences, e.g., BPM 2005/2006, and a prototype has also been implemented. Other business process related research within the school deals with methods for matching and composing Web services, as well as data quality in information . |
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University of Wollongong |
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is located in one of the most beautiful settings in Australia, just an hour's drive south of Australia's largest city, Sydney. The Decision Systems Laboratory (DSL) within UOW is a university-funded research program within the Institute of Mathematical Modeling and Computational Systems. The DSL is an interdisciplinary group of academics, post-doctoral researchers and research students drawn from the School of Information Technology and Computer Science, and the School of Economics and Information Systems at the University of Wollongong, who share an interest in exploring the technological issues underlying the design, implementation and testing of complex information systems. Current research within the DSL involves the following research themes:
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