Wil van der Aalst

Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at

Biography and Education

Born in

In 1992 he started working at the Eindhoven University of Technology as an assistant professor for the department of Mathematics and Computing Science, where he headed the Specification and Modeling of Information Systems (SMIS) research group. From 2000 to 2003, he was a part-time full professor at the Computing Science department. And from 2000 to 2006 he was head of the Information Systems department at the Technology Management department of TU/e. Since 2006 he has been full professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology. He also has a part-time appointment in the BPM group of Queensland University of Technology (QUT).^[1]

He has been a visiting professor on at

He is associate editor for several journals, including "IEEE Transactions on Services Computing", "IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics", "International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management", "International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures", "Computers in Industry", and "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency".[2]

He is series editor of "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing" (LNBIP) by Springer, member of the editorial board of "Distributed and Parallel Databases" and "Business and Information Systems Engineering", and member of several steering committees, including "International Conference Series on Business Process Management" (chair), "International Conference Series on Application and Theory of Petri nets" and "International Workshop Series on Web Services and Formal Methods". He is also a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) and the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).^[2] Van der Aalst was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.^[4]

Work

Van der Aalst's research interest is in the fields of

He is a strong supporter of open-source software. He initiated and led the development of:

• the ProM framework, a process mining tool
• YAWL, a workflow management system
• and several other software tools including Declare, Woflan, XRL, etc.

He also initiated the

Van der Aalst has published in total more than 400 books, journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and reports on these topics.[5]^[6] Books, a selection:

• van der Aalst, Wil, and
  Kees Max Van Hee. Workflow management: models, methods, and systems
  . MIT press, 2002; 2004.
• Dumas, Marlon, Wil M. van der Aalst, and Arthur H. Ter Hofstede. Process-aware information systems: bridging people and software through process technology. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• van der Aalst, Wil. Process mining: discovery, conformance and enhancement of business processes. Springer Science & Business Media, 2011.

• van der Aalst, Wil MP. "The application of Petri nets to workflow management." Journal of circuits, systems, and computers 8.01 (1998): 21–66.
• Wil van der Aalst,
  doi:10.1023/A:1022883727209
  .
• van der Aalst, Wil MP, Arthur HM Ter Hofstede, and Mathias Weske. "Business process management: A survey." Business process management. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. 1–12.
• van der Aalst, Wil MP, and Arthur HM Ter Hofstede. "YAWL: yet another workflow language." Information systems 30.4 (2005): 245–275.

References

External links

• Homepage Wil van der Aalst at Eindhoven University of Technology.