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Professor Arthur ter Hofstede
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Biography
Arthur ter Hofstede is a professor in the Faculty of Science. From 2010-2018 he was a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. In 2010-2011 he was a Senior Visiting Scholar of Tsinghua University in China and in May 2010 a Visiting Professor of Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Since 2015 he is a Visiting Professor of Sun Yat-sen University. More about Arthur.Research area
Conceptual, formal, and technological foundations of Business Process Automation (e.g. BPM in the cloud) as well as Process Mining, specifically data quality, comparative performance analysis, process risk analysis, and visualisation. Work in the area of process automation centers on the YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) open source workflow management system, which is based on the well-known Workflow Patterns Initiative. This system is used in industry and provides a test bed for the application of new research ideas. More information about my research in process-data quality can be found at www.processdataquality.com.
Supervision
Arthur is interested in students that would like to contribute to research in the areas of business process automation and process mining. Of particular current interest are the topics of data quality and data governance.
Personal details
Positions
- Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Keywords
Business Process Automation, Business Process Management, Workflow Management, Process Mining, Data Quality
Research field
Information systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Ph.d (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
- M.Sc (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
Experience
Over the past decades I have worked with industry in a variety of sectors (e.g. insurance, healthcare, screen business) on topics related to the area of business process management, notably process automation and process mining.
Publications
- Suriadi, S., Andrews, R., ter Hofstede, A. & Wynn, M. (2017). Event log imperfection patterns for process mining: Towards a systematic approach to cleaning event logs. Information Systems, 64, 132–150. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97670
- Conforti, R., La Rosa, M. & ter Hofstede, A. (2017). Filtering out infrequent behavior from business process event logs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29(2), 300–314. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/99577
- Wynn, M., Poppe, E., Xu, J., ter Hofstede, A., Brown, R., Pini, A. & van der Aalst, W. (2017). ProcessProfiler3D: A visualisation framework for log-based process performance comparison. Decision Support Systems, 100, 93–108. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105525
- Russell, N., van der Aalst, W. & ter Hofstede, A. (2016). Workflow patterns: the definitive guide. The MIT Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/96994
- Polyvyanyy, A., van der Aalst, W., ter Hofstede, A. & Wynn, M. (2016). Impact-driven process model repair. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 25(4), 1–60. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97668
- Suriadi, S., Ouyang, C., van der Aalst, W. & ter Hofstede, A. (2015). Event interval analysis: Why do processes take time? Decision Support Systems, 79, 77–98. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76205
- Wang, Z., ter Hofstede, A., Ouyang, C., Wynn, M., Wang, J. & Zhu, X. (2014). How to guarantee compliance between workflows and product lifecycles? Information Systems, 42, 195–215. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66764
- de Leoni, M., Adams, M., van der Aalst, W. & ter Hofstede, A. (2012). Visual support for work assignment in process-aware information systems: Framework formalisation and implementation. Decision Support Systems, 54(1), 345–361. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50956
- Ter Hofstede, A. & Van der Aalst, W. (2005). YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language. Information Systems, 30, 245–275. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10244
- Van Der Aalst, W., Ter Hofstede, A., Kiepuszewski, B. & Barros, A. (2003). Workflow Patterns. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 14, 5–51. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9950
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Professor (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Senior Visiting Scholar (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Visiting Professor (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, May 2010).
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- I was labelled a "Rising Star" in Computer Science by in-cites.com in May 2006 (http://www.in-cites.com/most_imp/may2006.html)and again in May 2007 (http://www.in-cites.com/most_imp/may2007.html). This means that during two bimonthly periods I had the highest percentage increase in citations among the top 1% of cited researchers in the field of Computer Science.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Improved Business Decision-Making via Liquid Process Model Collections
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP150103356
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- process mining; process model collection; business process management
- Title
- Cost-aware business process management
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP120101624
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Information System; Business Process Model; Workflow Management; Management Accounting
- Title
- Facilitating Business Process Standardisation and Reuse
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110100252
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Business Process Management; Open Source; Process Reuse; Process Standardisation; Process Governance
- Title
- Risk-Aware Business Process Management
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP110100091
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Risk Management; Information System; Business Process Model; Workflow Management
- Title
- Rapidly Locating Items in Distribution Networks with Process-Driven Nodes
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0773012
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Information technology; Business process modelling; Workflow analysis techniques; Distribution networks; Physical security
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Towards Cost Model-driven Log-based Business Process Improvement (2016)
- Mining Process Risks and Resource Profiles (2015)
- Consolidation of Business Process Model Collections (2014)
- Managing Risk in Process-Aware Information Systems (2014)
- Fundamentals of Process Integration (2011)
- Object-centric Process Models and the Design of Flexible Processes (2009)
- Facilitating Dynamic Flexibity and Exception Handling for Workflows (2007)
- Foundations of Process-Aware Information Systems (2007)
- Semantics, Verification, and Implementation of Workflows with Cancellation Regions and OR-joins (2006)
- Expressiveness and Suitability of Languages for Control Flow Modelling in Workflows (2003)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.