Wil van der Aalst

Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of information systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (the Netherlands). Currently he is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) working within the BPM group there. His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published more than 70 journal papers, 12 books (as author or editor), 200 refereed conference publications, and 20 book chapters. He has been a co-chair of many conferences including the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International Conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the Business Process Management Conference, and is an editor/member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Business Process Management Journal, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, and Computers in Industry.

Publications

Foreword
Foreword
Wil van der Aalst. © 2014. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing.
Lightweight Interacting Patient Treatment Processes
Lightweight Interacting Patient Treatment Processes
Ronny Mans, Wil van der Aalst, Nick Russell, Piet Bakker, Arnold Moleman. © 2012. 19 pages.
Processes concerning the diagnosis and treatment of patients cannot be straightjacketed into traditional production-like workflows. They can be best characterized as...
Dynamic and Context-Aware Process Adaptation
Dynamic and Context-Aware Process Adaptation
Michael Adams, Arthur ter Hofstede, Nick Russell, Wil van der Aalst. © 2010. 33 pages.
This chapter re-examines the principles that underpin business process technologies to derive a novel approach that moves beyond the traditional assembly-line metaphor. Using a...
Mining E-Mail Messages: Uncovering Interaction Patterns and Processes Using E-Mail Logs
Mining E-Mail Messages: Uncovering Interaction Patterns and Processes Using E-Mail Logs
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Andriy Nikolov. © 2010. 23 pages.
Increasingly information systems log historic information in a systematic way. Workflow management systems, but also ERP, CRM, SCM, and B2B systems often provide a so-called...
Pattern-Based Translation of BPMN Process Models to BPEL Web Services
Pattern-Based Translation of BPMN Process Models to BPEL Web Services
Chun Ouyang, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, Wil M.P. van der Aalst. © 2010. 22 pages.
The business process modeling notation (BPMN) is a graph-oriented language primarily targeted at domain analysts and supported by many modeling tools. The business process...
Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling
Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling
Jorge Cardoso, Wil van der Aalst. © 2009. 634 pages.
Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. The Handbook of...
Configurable Reference Modeling Languages
Configurable Reference Modeling Languages
Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Monique Jansen-Vullers, Alexander Dreiling. © 2009. 22 pages.
This chapter discusses reference modeling languages for business systems analysis and design. In particular, it reports on reference models in the context of the...
Mining E-Mail Messages: Uncovering Interaction Patterns and Processes using E-Mail Logs
Mining E-Mail Messages: Uncovering Interaction Patterns and Processes using E-Mail Logs
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Andriy Nikolov. © 2008. 19 pages.
Increasingly information systems log historic information in a systematic way. Workflow management systems, but also ERP, CRM, SCM, and B2B systems often provide a so-called...
Pattern-Based Translation of BPMN Process Models to BPEL Web Services
Pattern-Based Translation of BPMN Process Models to BPEL Web Services
Chun Ouyang, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M., Wil M.P. van der Aalst. © 2008. 21 pages.
The business process modeling notation (BPMN) is a graph-oriented language primarily targeted at domain analysts and supported by many modeling tools. The business process...
Supporting the Full BPM Life-Cycle Using Process Mining and Intelligent Redesign
Supporting the Full BPM Life-Cycle Using Process Mining and Intelligent Redesign
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Mariska Netjes, Hajo A. Reijers. © 2007. 33 pages.
Business process management (BPM) systems provide a broad range of facilities to enact and manage operational business processes. Ideally, these systems should provide support...
Configurable Reference Modeling Languages
Configurable Reference Modeling Languages
Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Monique Jansen-Vullers, Alexander Dreiling. © 2007. 25 pages.
This chapter discusses reference modeling languages for business systems analysis and design. In particular, it reports on reference models in the context of the...