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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems,Theoretical Computer Science |
| Keywords | Workflow Management Systems, Data Science, Concurrency Theory, Business Process Management, Process Mining |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Aachen |
| Institution | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst Schmachtenberg | Fachgruppe Informatik, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen |
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| Dr. Elke Müller | Fachgruppe Informatik, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen |
| Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst Schmachtenberg | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen |
| Dr. Elke Müller | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2018 |
Program(s)
| 2017 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship |
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Nominator's project description
| Wil van der Aalst is one of the leading minds in computer science. What is special about his research is that he does not restrict himself to issues of pure data processing using software and algorithms but investigates concrete business processes, workflows and organisational structures. He acquired his international reputation, in particular, as the founder of the still young field of process mining, whereby the flow of activities and order of events which make up a work process are chronologically reconstructed and analysed using log data. At the same time, consideration is also given to the human actors who carry out the individual steps in the processes. In this way, complex procedures that involve several human actors can be studied, such as airport luggage handling, bank lending or insurance claims processing. Process mining can be used, for example, to ascertain whether the actual processes coincide with the envisaged process workflows or whether certain steps in a process are particularly time consuming or cost intensive. The open source tool ProM, co-developed by van der Aalst, has become a standard tool worldwide. At RWTH Aachen University, Alexander von Humboldt Professor Wil van der Aalst will bolster the cross-cutting field of process and workflow analysis and drive cooperation with the engineering, business and economics, and medicine faculties, and also industry. |