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Prof. Dr. Ir. Hajo Reijers FULL PROFESSOR

Business Process Management, Information Systems, Workflow Management, Business Process Reengineering

h.a.reijers@vu.nl

room: T-452 | +31 20 59 87824

Dr. Henrik Leopold ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Business Process Management, Business Process Analysis, Information Systems, Natural Language Processing

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h.leopold@vu.nl

room: T-444 | +31 20 59 87767

Dr. Inge van de Weerd ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Business Process Management, Information Systems, Workarounds

i.vande.weerd@vu.nl

room: T-470 | +31 20 598 7760

Dr. Ir. Xixi Lu POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Process mining, Event data analysis and visualization, Data mining

x.lu@vu.nl

room: T-462 | +31 20 59 89891

Ir. Ünal Aksu PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Process Mining, Business Process Modeling

u.a.aksu@vu.nl

room: T-454 | +31 20 59 84221

MSc. Isaac da Silva Torres PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Business Process Analysis, Business Process Redesign and Improvement, Nature of Business Process

i.dasilvatorres@vu.nl

room: T-470 | +31 20 59 87760

MSc. Iris Beerepoot PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Business Process Analysis, Workarounds, Healthcare Information Systems

i.m.beerepoot@vu.nl

room: T-470 | +31 20 59 87760

MSc. Jelmer Koorn PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Process Mining, Business Process Modeling

jelmerkoorn.jk@gmail.com

room: T-470 | +31 20 59 87760

Dr. Marcelo Fantinato GUEST RESEARCHER
(from University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Information Systems, Business Process Management, Strategic Alignment, Process Mining

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m.fantinato@usp.br

room: T-454 | +31 20 59 84221

Dr. Sarajane Marques Peres GUEST RESEARCHER
(from University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Process Mining

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sarajane@usp.br

room: T-454 | +31 20 59 84221

Former members and affiliated people

Ir. Fakhra Jabeen PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Machine Learning, Data Mining

f.jabeen@vu.nl

MSc. Marie Koorneef PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Process Mining, Econometrics

m.koorneef@vu.nl

Dr. Ir. Banu Aysolmaz POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Business Process Management, Process Model Visualization, Process Comprehension

b.e.aysolmaz@vu.nl

Dr. Ir. Deniz Iren POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, Project Management, Business Process Management, Agile Software Engineering

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y.d.iren@vu.nl

Dr. Tijs Slaats VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Business Process Management, Declarative and Hybrid Process Models, Information Systems, Software Engineering

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slaats@di.ku.dk

Dr. Ermeson Carneiro de Andrade POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Availability, Business Process Management, Dependability, Petri nets

ermeson@deinfo.ufrpe.br

Dr. Marzieh Bakhshandeh POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Enterprise Modeling, Semantic Web, Ontology Matching, Business Process Modeling

m.bakhshandeh@vu.nl

Ir. Han van der Aa PHD CANDIDATE

Business Process Management, Natural Language Processing

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j.h.vander.aa@vu.nl

room: T-454 | +31 20 59 84221

Dr. Ir. Dennis Schunselaar POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Analysis, Configurable Process Models

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d.m.m.schunselaar@vu.nl

room: T-462 | +31 20 59 89891

PUBLICATIONS
Selected publications

Journal Papers

van der Aa, H., Leopold, H., & Reijers, H. A. (2016). Comparing textual descriptions to process models–The automatic detection of inconsistencies. Information Systems.

Reijers, H. A., Vanderfeesten, I., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2016). The effectiveness of workflow management systems: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Information Management, 36(1), 126-141.

Leopold, H., Pittke, F., & Mendling, J. (2015). Automatic service derivation from business process model repositories via semantic technology. Journal of Systems and Software, 108, 134-147.

Vanwersch, R. J., Vanderfeesten, I., Rietzschel, E., & Reijers, H. A. (2015). Improving Business Processes: Does Anybody have an Idea?. In Business Process Management (pp. 3-18). Springer International Publishing.

Leopold, H., Mendling, J., & Polyvyanyy, A. (2014). Supporting process model validation through natural language generation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 40(8), 818-840.

van Genuchten, M., Mans, R., Reijers, H., & Wismeijer, D. (2014). Is your upgrade worth it? Process mining can tell. Software, IEEE, 31(5), 94-100.

Iren, D., Bilgen. S.; (2014) Cost of Quality in Crowdsourcing. Human Computation 1:2:283-314 ISSN: 2330-8001, DOI: 10.15346/hc.v1i2.14

Leopold, H., Smirnov, S., & Mendling, J. (2012). On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models. Information Systems, 37(5), 443-459.

Leopold, H., Niepert, M., Weidlich, M., Mendling, J., Dijkman, R., & Stuckenschmidt, H. (2012). Probabilistic optimization of semantic process model matching. In Business Process Management (pp. 319-334). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Schunselaar, D. M., Verbeek, E., van der Aalst, W. M., & Reijers, H. A. (2012, May). Creating sound and reversible configurable process models using CoSeNets. In Business Information Systems (pp. 24-35). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Schunselaar, D. M., Maggi, F. M., Sidorova, N., & van der Aalst, W. M. (2012). Configurable Declare: Designing Customisable Flexible Models. In 20th Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012).

Schunselaar, D. M., Maggi, F. M., & Sidorova, N. (2012, June). Patterns for a log-based strengthening of declarative compliance models. In Integrated Formal Methods (pp. 327-342). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Reijers, H. A., Freytag, T., Mendling, J., & Eckleder, A. (2011). Syntax highlighting in business process models. Decision Support Systems, 51(3), 339-349.

Weber, B., Reichert, M., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2011). Refactoring large process model repositories. Computers in Industry, 62(5), 467-486.

Conference Proceedings & Workshops

van der Aa, H., Leopold, H., & Reijers, H. A. (2016, September). Dealing with Behavioral Ambiguity in Textual Process Descriptions. In International Conference on Business Process Management (pp. 271-288). Springer International Publishing.

Gulden J., van der Linden D., Aysolmaz, B. (2016). A Research Agenda on Visualizations in Information Systems Engineering. Proc. of the 11th Int. Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), Rome, Italy.

Aysolmaz, B., Yildiz, A., Reijers, H. (2016). A Process Variant Modeling Method Comparison: Experience Report. To appear in: Proc. of the 17th BPMDS Working Conference in conjunction with CAiSE'16, Ljuljana, Slovenia.

van der Aa, H., del-Rio-Ortega, A., Resinas, M., Leopold, H., Ruiz-Cortés, A., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2016). Narrowing the Business-IT Gap in Process Performance Measurement. In Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAiSE.

Aysolmaz, B., Demirors O. (2015). Unified Process Modeling with UPROM Tool. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Editors: van der Aalst, W., Mylopoulos, J., Rosemann, M., Shaw, M.J., Szyperski, C., Springer.

B. Aysolmaz and O. Demirors, Automated Functional Size Estimation using Business Process Models with UPROM Method. in Software Process and Product Measurement, 2014.

Iren, D., & Bilgen, S. (2014, July). Cost models of Quality assurance in crowdsourcing. In Communications and Electronics (ICCE), 2014 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (pp. 504-509). IEEE.

Iren, D., Kul, G., & Bilgen, S. (2014, June). Utilization of synergetic human-machine clouds: a big data cleaning case. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering (pp. 15-18). ACM.

Schunselaar, D. M., Verbeek, E., van der Aalst, W. M., & Reijers, H. A. (2014). Petra: A Tool for Analysing a Process Family. In PNSE@ Petri Nets (pp. 269-288).