International PhD School in Theory and Practice of
Business Process Execution and Service Orientation - BPESO
(5 ECTS course)

The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16 - 19, 2007

Service oriented architectures and business process management systems are being heavily promoted as means to achieve a flexible and loosely coupled integration of enterprise applications.

This 4 day (5 ECTS) PhD school is aimed at PhD-students and young researchers in Computer Science or practitioners in industry with a mathematical flair, working on formal models and/or the interplay between theory and practice of business process execution and service oriented computing.

While the software industry and standardisation bodies are launching new tools, frameworks and specifications for business process execution and coordination languages, academia has taken up the challenge to influence and provide formal grounds for this development.

The school offers a unique blend of lectures on formal languages and models for workflow, business processes and service oriented computing (including: Coloured Petri Net, WS-BPEL, WS-CDL, process calculi, types and graph transformation), and state-of-the art tool presentations from academia as well as industry (including:newYAWL, CPNTools, Intalio open source BPMS, ORACLE BPEL, Resultmaker Online Consultant and pi4tech).

The lectures are given by researchers representing key research groups in formal models and tools for service oriented computing, workflow and business processes, and representatives from providers of commercial business process and workflow management systems.

Lecturers:

• Arnaud Blandin, EMEA Director, Intalio, France
• Mario Bravetti, Assistant Professor, University of Bologna
• Marco Carbone, Imperial College London, UK
• Søren Christensen og Kristian B. Lassen, CPN Group, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Kaare Nørgaard, CEO, Resultmaker A/S, Denmark
• Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof, Dortmund University, Germany
• Nick Russell, TU/e, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Karsten S. Terp-Nielsen, Oracle Denmark
• Emilio Tuosto, Lecturer in Computer Science, Leicester, UK
• Gianluigi Zavattaro, Associate Professor, University of Bologna

Participating students will after registration have the oportunity to submit a poster presenting their own work. The posters will be on display during the week.

Affiliated and near-by related events:

The BPESO PhD School is organized as part of a cross-disciplinary research project on Computer Supported Mobile Adaptive Business Processes (CosmoBiz), supported by ITU, Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production (Grant no. 274-06-0415).

The PhD School will be followed by a 1-day workshop on Formal Models for Business Process Execution and Service Oriented Computing on Saturday, October 20, at IT University of Copenhagen.

The Eighth Workshop and Tutorial on Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and the CPN Tools is taking place at Department of Computer Science (less than 3 hours by train from Copenhagen), University of Aarhus, October 22-24, 2007.

Organized by: Associate professor Thomas Hildebrandt and Academic Officer Johanne Keiding, ITU
Funded by the FIRST Graduate School and the CosmoBiz Research Project