Marlon Dumas
Professor of Information Systems
Software Engineering & Information Systems Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu, Estonia
Co-Founder at Apromore
Address:
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu
Narva mnt 18
51009 Tartu, Estonia
Telephone: +372 737 5473
Fax: +372 737 5468
E-mail: marlon.dumas@ut.ee
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Teaching
Most of my lecture notes, lab notes and lecture video recordings are available via the links below. Please enjoy!
I am a co-author of the textbook Fundamentals
of Business Process Management (see also the companion web site) and
co-instructor of two MOOCs: Business
Process Management: An Introduction to Process Thinking and Fundamentals of BPM.
Research
I conduct research in the field of information systems engineering. The problems I examine generally revolve around the following question: How to build and maintain information 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.
Note to prospective PhD students. I always welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students (and also from prospective postdocs). If you have a strong background in algorithms, machine learning and/or optimization, you are a deep thinker, and you are passionate about applying your skills and deep thinking to solve relevant problems, please contact me.
Some research outputs to which I have contributed are showcased in the following sites:
- Apromore. Open-source process mining platform.
- Simod. Tool for automated discovery of business process simulation models from event logs
- Prosimos. A business process model simulator capable of capturing differentiated resources
- UI Logger User interaction logger for task mining and robotic process mining
- Caterpillar. Blockchain-based business process management system
- Nirdizati. Open-source tool for predictive monitoring of business processes. Source code (also available within Apromore)
- Pleak. Toolset for modelling and analysis of privacy-enhanced business processes. Source code available here
- DMN Checker. Tool for analysis and simplification of DMN decision
tables.
- BPMN Miner: Tool for automated discovery of modular BPMN process models
from event logs in MXML or XES format. Also available as a plugin in ProM Lite and in Apromore
- ProConformance:
tool for conformance checking of BPMN process models against event
logs in XES or MXML format.
- ProDelta:
tool for behavioral delta analysis (comparison) of event logs in XES or MXML format.
- BIMP: Lightweight and ultra-fast simulator of BPMN process models
- BPStruct: Tool for converting unstructured business process models into equivalent block-structured ones
- 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.
I regularly blog about my research directions and outputs on LinkedIn. Below is a selecton of blog posts:
Professional Service and Peer-reviewing
Commissions of trust
- Chair of the ERC Starting Grants Panel (Computer Science and Informatics), 2018 and 2020
- Member of IStat's (Italian Statistics Office) Methodology Committee, 2017-2018
- Member of the ERC Starting Grants Panel (Computer Science and Informatics), 2014 and 2016
Editorial roles
Recent conference committee roles
- PC Member, 3rd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM'2021)
- Senior PC Member, 19th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2021)
- PC Member, 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM'2020)
- PC Chair, 18th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2020)
- PC Member, 17th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2019)
- PC Member, 31th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'19)
- PC Member, 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2018)
- PC Member, International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CooPIS'2018)
- General Chair, 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'18)
- PC Member, 16th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2018)
- Senior PC Member, 15th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2017)
- PC Member, 13th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI'2017)
- PC Member, 1st Workshop on Cognitive Business Process Management (CBPM'17)
- PC Member, 1st International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy (PAP'2017)
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?