Phd Projects

Finalized

  • dr. Steven Mertens - Enabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes - Oct 2019
  • dr. Michael Verdonck - Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: Model Comprehension, Ontology Selection, and Method Complexity - May 2018
  • dr. Nadejda Alkhaldi - On the Symbiosis between Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Engineering: Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling - Nov 2017
  • dr. Maria das Graças da Silva Teixeira - An ontology-based process for domain-specific visual language design - Aug 2017
  • dr. Jan Claes - Investigating the process of process modeling and its relation to modeling quality: the role of structured serialization - Nov 2015

Ongoing

  • Thomas Derave
  • Camelia Maleki
  • Georgios Georgiadis - EU Data Privacy at Large: Leveraging Enterprise-Architectural Thinking

Member of the doctoral guidance committee

Laleh Rafati - Capability-actor-resource-service : a conceptual modelling approach for value-driven strategic sourcing Renata Petrevska Nechkoska  - Tactical management sense-and-respond framework enhancement using ICT Ben Roelens - From business logic to business process : designing strategy-aligned business processes Member of the doctoral examination committee 

Babak Akbarzadeh - Exact and heuristic algorithms for scheduling problems in healthcare Kiyeng Philip Chumo - From business logic to business process : designing strategy-aligned business processes Lamia A.M. Abo Zaid - The Feature Assembly Approach for Modelling & Knowledge Management of Software Variability  Amy van Looy - Business process maturity: a comparative study on a sample of business process maturity models

Research Topics:

Enterprise Modelling, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Ontologies,  Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling, Process Mining, Declarative Process Modelling

Research Collaborators:

Guido Geerts, Geert Poels, Sven Castelein, Sergio de Cézaré, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Chris Partridge

Organized Conferences and  Workshops

General Char Caise 2022 Onto.Com 2021 Workshop Chair ER 2019 Onto.CoM 2018 PoEM 2017 ONTO.COM 2017 ONTO.COM 2016 ONTO.COM / ODISE 2014 ODISE 2012

Associate editor Journal

Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures – International Journal of Conceptual Modeling

Member PC Conference or Workshop

CAISE 2021 FOIS 2021 ER 2021 EMMSAD 2021 ER 2020 PoEM 2020 EMMSAD 2020 BPM 2020 ER 2019 POeM 2019 CAISE 2019 20th IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics 11th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling The 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018) 8th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2018)  International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2018) VORTE 2017 The 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2017) 7th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2017)  18th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2016) CONFENIS 2014 CONFENIS 2013