Marlon Dumas
Swedbank Professor of Software Engineering
Software Engineering Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu, Estonia
Address:
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu
J Liivi 2
Tartu 50409, Estonia
Telephone: +372 737 5473
Fax: +372 737 5468
E-mail: marlon.dumas@ut.ee
Teaching
Research
I conduct research in the area of enterprise software. The problems I examine generally revolve around the following question: How to build and maintain integrated software systems that are aligned with business operations? My efforts are currently focused on two approaches:
- Business Process Management: analysing and building software systems starting from models of how an organisation works, also called business process models
- Service-Oriented Computing: analysing and building software systems based on the metaphor of "software as a service", usually on top of Web technology.
Some research outputs to which I have contributed are showcased in the following sites and blogs:
- The Economics of Cloud Computing
- Service Choreographies: This site outlines a method and a notation (namely Let's Dance) for designing service-oriented systems based on global models of service interactions, also known as choreographies.
- Service Interaction Patterns: Catalogue of patterns related to the design and implementation of service-oriented applications.
- Workflow
Patterns: Repository of patterns and evaluations of standards and products related to workflow and business process management.
- YAWL: A fully-featured open-source workflow management system based on the workflow patterns and built on a RESTful architecture.
- BPMN-to-BPEL Eclipse Plugin: Open-source tool for transforming BPMN process models into readable BPEL code. Other tools for transforming between BPMN, BPEL and Petri nets are available in the BABEL project site.
- BPMCenter: Portal aggregating various research activities in the area of business process management focusing on joint projects involving Eindhoven University of Technology and Queensland University of Technology.
I am also Strategic Area Leader at the Software Technologies and Applications Competence Centre (STACC). STACC is an industry-focused research centre that brings together Estonia's two major universities and 10 companies with the aim of conducting industry-driven research in data mining and software engineering. I oversee all STACC activities related to software and services engineering.
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About Me
I was born in Honduras, a
relatively small country located in Central
America, which caters visitors with uncrowded and magnificent
beaches, tropical natural parks and vestiges of the
Mayan culture. Curious? Check this travel guide! I studied in Grenoble, France and after graduating, spent a few years in Brisbane Australia. For reasons that I am yet to determine, I then decided to trade the sun for the gloom by moving to Tartu, Estonia. Where next?