Marlon Dumas

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

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Teaching

• Business Process Management (Spring 2013)
• Software Economics (Fall 2012)
• Systems Modelling (Fall 2012)
• Enterprise System Integration (Fall 2012)
• Topics for Bachelor and Master theses

I am a co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Business Process Management and its associated Online Course on Business Process Management.

Note to prospective students. I am program manager of the International Master's of Software Engineering. We are looking for bright and passionate IT graduates from all over the world to join us in this Master's program (more than a dozen scholarships available). Some opportunities for PhD studies are also available every year for exceptional students with a passion for research. Please drop me an e-mail if you feel you have the passion.

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Research

• 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.

List of publications

• BIMP: Lightweight and ultra-fast simulator of BPMN process models
  
• BPStruct: Tool for converting unstructured business process models into equivalent block-structured ones
  
• Apromore: Toolset for managing repositories of business process models
  
• Process Configuration: Site gathering tools and research publications related to business process configuration
  
• Economics of Cloud Computing: Blog on cost estimation models for cloud computing
  
• Service Choreographies: Site documenting the Let's Dance notation for service 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

Involvement in research forums

• PC chair, 2nd International Workshop on Data and Artifact-Centric Business Process Management (DAB)

Program committee memberships

• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013) - Business Process Management Track
  
• 17th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing (EDOC 2013)
  
• 11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2013)
• 15th IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2013)
  
• International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2013)
  
• 8th Design Science in Information Systems and Technologies Conference (DERIST 2013)
  
• International Workshop on Variability Support in Information Systems (VarIS 2013)
• 4th International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2013)
  

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About Me