CAiSE's 2009 invited speakers
Opening keynote: Nigel Shadbolt
"The Science of the Web" (download slides)
Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deputy Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University. He is a member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group , and Director of Interdisciplinary Research within ECS. He is a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative a joint endeavour between the University of Southampton and MIT.
Since 1978 he has been carrying out research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Science. In the course of his career he has studied and researched in Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Electronics and Computer Science. He has published and presented results in all of these disciplines and has sought to develop programmes of research across traditional disciplinary boundaries. His research concentrates on two ends of the spectrum of AI - namely, Knowledge Technologies and Biorobotics. In 2000 he led a consortium of five Universities that secured an EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge Technologies. Professor Shadbolt was the Director of this eight million pound, six-year research programme that pursued basic and applied research in the provision of technologies to realise the promise of the Semantic Web. An output of this work CS AKTive Space with which he was closely involved won the 2003 International Semantic Web Challenge. Professor Shadbolt has published 268 articles on various facets of AI, and has written and co-edited nine books. From 20001-2004 he was Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, and is now Editor in Chief Emeritus and was awarded the IEEE CS Meritorious Service Award for his services to the title. He was also elected a member of the IEEE CS Golden Core in recognition of his services to the Society. He was an Associate Editor of the International Journal for Human Computer Systems and is currently on the editorial board of the Knowledge Engineering Review and the Computer Journal and is the Joint Editor of the newly established Journal of Web Science. He is a member of various national committees including: the Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) of the ICT programme of the EPSRC, the Defence Scientific Advisory Board's Human Sciences Sub-Committee. He was President of the British Computer Society in its 50th anniversary, and Chair of its Trustee Board.
He has been involved in a wide range of entrepreneurial activities. He consults on AI, Knowledge-Based Systems, the Web and Information Management to a wide range of companies including QinetiQ, DSTL, MoD, FCO, UN, Rolls Royce, Unilever, Hitachi, British Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Lucas, Royal Mail Group, Lloyds Register, British Gas, various Venture Capital companies. Professor Shadbolt is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 2004 he was made Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence for "Pioneering Work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Outstanding Service for the European Artificial Intelligence Community". In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Invited speaker: Wil van der Aalst
"TomTom for Business Process Management" (download slides)
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 90 journal papers, 13 books (as author or editor), 200 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 30 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has an H-index of more than 50 according to Google Scholar) 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.
Invited speaker: Mark de Simone
"Computer-centric business operating models vs Network-centric ones"
Mark De Simone has over 28 years of business leadership experience in the ICT sector. He has led market transitions across industry boundaries ranging from Client-Servers to the Web, from Traditional Telecom to IP based services and from application to collaborative processes. He has an extensive executive and management team experience from Global Fortune 50 companies such as Cisco, General Electric, Lucent and Mc Kinsey. Most recently, Mark was Vice President Middle East and Africa at Cisco, responsible for full P&L of this $2B business in 82 countries with sales, support, services, operations, marketing and investments oversight. As the fastest growing business at Cisco, he grew revenues from $330M to $2B run rate in 48 months and was named the Cisco Vice President of the year in 2006 and 2007. Mark was instrumental in driving the post merger integration of Webex after the company was acquired by Cisco 2007. Prior to Cisco, Mark was Managing Director for privately funded telecommunications services companies Aduronet and Storm Telecom, which reached $200M revenue from a start-up during his tenure. Mark was Lucent Technologies’ Global Vice President and Senior Marketing Officer working for Carly Fiorina when she was President of the service provider business. He was a key stakeholder in the acquisition and integration of Ascend and INS. In the 1990s Mark led the creation of the network products and services business at General Electric Medical Systems in both Milwaukee and France. Earlier in his career he was a Managing Director for Olivetti, Hewlett Packard and a senior associate at McKinsey. Mark is an accomplished speaker at international events and holds a MBA from Columbia University and an Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University. Fluent in 4 languages, Mark is a true global citizen and was member of the supervisory board of Italtel 2003-2006 and is currently Board Advisor for MainStreet Technologies Submarine Cable Operator in Africa.
Invited speaker: Edwin Paalvast
"The IT dilemma and the Unified Computing Framework"
Edwin Paalvast is Vice President Service Sales, European Markets. As the sales leader for Service Sales in the European Markets, comprised of 20 countries across Europe, Paalvast is responsible for developing innovative services to help accelerate customer success and partner profitability with Cisco network technology and applications. With 20 years IT industry experience, Paalvast has held a number of senior management positions. In Cisco he has served as the Sales Director for Mobile Service Providers for EMEA and as the Director for Service Providers in the Netherlands. Prior to Cisco, Paalvast was Partner for Bakkenist Management Consultants, now part of Deloitte. Paalvast started his career in research working for TNO – Organisation for Applied Research in the Netherlands. Paalvast holds a PhD from the Technical University of Delft.
Invited speaker: Klaus Pohl
"Towards the Next Generation of Service-Based Systems: The S-Cube Research Framework"
Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl holds a full professorship for Software Systems Engineering at the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and an adjunct-professorship at the University of Limerick, Ireland. From 2005 to 2007 he acted as the funding scientific director of Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. Klaus received his Ph.D. and his habilitation in computer science from RWTH Aachen, Germany. His research interests include requirements engineering, service-based system engineering, software quality assurance and software product lines. Klaus is the coordinator of the FP 7 Network of Excellence S Cube (Software Services and Systems Network) and is member, among others, of the steering committee and the executive board of the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) and the steering committee of the German Innovation-Alliance SPES 2020 (Software Platform for Embedded Systems). Klaus has served as program and general chair for several international conferences including the IEEE Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2002), the Experience Reports Track of the Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), the German Software Engineering Conference (SE 2005), the Intl. Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2005), the German Software Engineering Conference (SE 2005), the Intl. Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2006) and the Intl. Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2008). In addition, he is/was a member of numerous program committees. Klaus Pohl is (co-)author of over 130 refereed publications and several textbooks including "Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles, and Techniques", Springer 2005 and "Requirements Engineering: Grundlagen, Prinzipien, Techniken", dpunkt 2008.
Tutorial by: Gio Wiederhold
"How to Value Software in a Business, and Where might the Value Go?"
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Gio Wiederhold is now an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Medicine at Stanford University, continuing part-time with a Freshman seminar on `Business on the Internet' and a course on `Software Economics'. Since 1976 Gio has supervised 36 PhD theses in these departments. Since his formal retirement Gio is spending most of his time consulting for MITRE Corporation serving the U.S. Treasury on valuation of software and other IP being transferred internationally. He received a contribution award for that work in 2005. Wiederhold has authored and coauthored more than 300 publications and reports on computing and medicine, including an early popular Database Design textbook, now in the ACM Digital Library. He initiated knowledge-base research through a white paper to DARPA in 1977, proposing to combine database and Artificial intelligence technology. The results led to the concept of mediator architectures. Research topics addressed database technologies, knowledge-based integration of information, an algebra over ontologies, access to simulations to augment decision-making, privacy protection in collaborative settings, composition of software, and contributions to the semantic web. Gio has also worked with computing enterprises in Europe and Asia and on academic advisory boards, as CWI and SIKS in the Netherlands. He spent 1991-1994 as the program manager for Knowledge-based Systems at DARPA in Washington DC. Gio Wiederhold was born in Italy, abandoned studies in Aeronautical Engineering in Holland in 1958, but earned a PhD in Medical Information Science from the University of California at San Francisco in 1976. In between he spent 16 years in the software industry. His industrial career followed computer technologies, starting with numerical analysis applied to rocket fuel, implementation of FORTRAN and PL/1 compilers, real-time data acquisition, a time-oriented database system, eventually becoming a corporate software architect. Gio Wiederhold has been elected fellow of the ACMI, the IEEE, and the ACM. He has been an editor and editor-in-chief of several IEEE and ACM publications. Gio's web page is at http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/gio.html.
Invited talk by : Sjoerd Meihuizen
"An ERAnet for the Future Internet"
Sjoerd Meihuizen is program manager of the software engineering and software services research program Jacquard, positioned within the physical sciences division of the Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO). His background is in art and cultural history (University of Groningen, UCLA and University of Minnesota). Sjoerd also worked at the Free University Amsterdam and Philips and was information specialist and credential evaluator from 2002 to 2007 at the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education (Nuffic). Next to Jacquard, Sjoerd Meihuizen is also involved within the ICT-research Platform Nederland (IPN), the Innovation platform Software as a Service (IIP SaaS), and the European Technology Platform NESSI.