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Personal process management: the overlooked side of BPM

Being quite involved both in the BPM field and in social networking, personal productivity tools, and Web application design, I'm always appalled when I think about how many findings and practices designed for businesses could benefit our everyday life too.One specific example of this is about the BPM practices and their potential added value for … Continue reading Personal process management: the overlooked side of BPM

Efficient Subgraph Matching – Keynote by V.S. Subrahmanian at ASONAM 2012

V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland)As part of the Data Management in the Social Semantic Web workshop (DMSSW workshop) at the ASONAM 2012 conference in Istanbul, Turkey, V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland) gave an interesting talk on efficient subgraph matching on (social) networks.Queries are defined as graphs themselves, with some of the places defined as constants … Continue reading Efficient Subgraph Matching – Keynote by V.S. Subrahmanian at ASONAM 2012

Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012

At this point of the year, just before vacation time, it makes sense to me to think to Web Engineering practices at large and draw some trends and outlook for the field after this year.As a PC chair of ICWE 2012 (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year I can claim I had a privileged view over … Continue reading Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012

Model-driven development on and for the Cloud: CloudMDE Workshop at ECMFA 2012

I'm glad to say that the CloudMDE workshop we organized at ECMFA has stirred interesting presentations and discussions.I've summarized the online comments in this storified list of tweets:http://storify.com/marcobrambi/cloudmde-workshop-on-model-driven-engineering-on-a.js[<a href="http://storify.com/marcobrambi/cloudmde-workshop-on-model-driven-engineering-on-a" target="_blank">View the story "CloudMDE workshop on Model-Driven Engineering on and for the Cloud (at ECMFA2012)" on Storify</a>]<h1>CloudMDE workshop on Model-Driven Engineering on and for the Cloud … Continue reading Model-driven development on and for the Cloud: CloudMDE Workshop at ECMFA 2012

BPM and EA Europe Conference 2012 – the full Twitter story from all of us

The BPM and EA Conference 2012 is simply too big to follow in person in all its sessions and details. I'm trying here to summarize all the stories that are going on. Feel free to add your comments and experiences! (For sake of readability, the story will be visible once you open this post separately).http://storify.com/marcobrambi/bpm-europe-and-eac-conference-2012.js[<a … Continue reading BPM and EA Europe Conference 2012 – the full Twitter story from all of us

Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

While attending the BPM Europe Conference 2012, I started by following the seminar by Sandy Kemsley on Social Business Process Management.She brought up a large set of interesting issues related to Social BPM: Social BPM dimensionsDimensions of complexity can be orthogonalized and well managed:Structure: how much structured is the processInternal Collaboration: how much internal collaboration … Continue reading Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy

Today I attended the MDA forum 2012, organized by Soluta.net and held in Milan, Italy. The topic of this year has been: "BPM and MDA". WebRatio was sponsoring the event and also had a presentation during the day, given by Stefano Butti. Here is a short summary of the day, which has been extremely interesting … Continue reading 6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy

Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012

Our paper: Answering search queries with CrowdSearcherhas been accepted and presented at WWW 2012 in Lyon.Here is the abstract:Web users are increasingly relying on social interaction to complete and validate the results of their search activities. While search systems are superior machines to get world-wide information, the opinions collected within friends and expert/local communities can ultimately … Continue reading Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012

CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012

Last week I have been attending WWW 2012 in Lyon and within it I joined the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search (CrowdSearch 2012) on April 17 to April 20 in Lyon, France. I enjoyed a lot the technical contributions and the extremely lively discussion and feedback from the audience (50+ people throughout the day).The program … Continue reading CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012