Reviewer Types - 9 to the count, but extensible?

Ever felt frustrated by reviewers dumbly criticizing a paper your peers in the discipline judge as good, treating it like it was the worst piece of text ever even imagined by a creature in the universe? Or perhaps you had the hater reviewer who just destroys all of your paper mentioning all kinds of alien arguments which have nothing to do with the scientific quality of your paper? Or maybe you already had the sniper who just reviews your paper in 2 or 3 lines just mentioning he didn't like the way you asked the research question and thinks your experiment is not one. Well, I found a post summarizing 9 stereotypes of reviewers you will find on your academic path, if you submit often enough. I personally found the post well written and very much enjoyable, as it made me reflect on my own experiences with reviewers, and the funny stories about reviewers virtually every researcher I met has told me about.

http://matt.might.net/articles/peer-fortress/

Aaaaaaaah, if you didn't experience what a PhD is, you haven't really lived :-)

Marwane

WAT @ CodeMash 2012 by Gary Bernhardt

Talking about facts? Facts, just facts and nothing but facts. In god we trust, for the others, we need data, or as the wise used to say. Then have a look at this awesome video, which I was pointed at by my brother. Just pure geeky coder awesomeness. Short, concise, acid and accurate, just the perfect taste for an argument. I won't say more than that. Oh, and don't mind the jokes, if you don't get them, it takes nothing from the pleasure of watching the video. Enjoy the WAT video. Ruby and JS. Awesome.

A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Marwane.

Keynote Slides and Videos from EDOC 2011

Hi guys,

I was notified a while ago that the videos and the slides of the three keynotes given at EDOC in September 2011 are online. Honestly, I found the three keynote talks to be awesome, and certainly the best set of keynote talks I attended ever. I got to talk with all three of the keynote guests and I enjoyed the discussions very much. Amon the great community of people I got to know at EDOC, Terry Halpin is certainly to set apart, maybe because I love australian humor and the ORM formalism and notation :-)

Anyways enjoy the links underneath and I am sure you won't have wasted your time! You may even try to recognize me on the videos because I asked questions to every keynote guest, haha, it's me, I am passionate about that stuff as you know.

I very mich hope to be at EDOC in 2012, and I preparing an adequate submission :-)

• Prof. Dr. Mike Papazoglou: Making Business Processes Compliant to Standards and Regulations
• Prof. Dr. Terry Halpin: Fact-Orientation and Conceptual Logic
• Dr. Richard Hull: Towards Flexible Service Interoperation using Business Artifacts

Peace & Cheers, Marwane.

A very nice presentation introduction to BPMN by Jim Arlow.

125 Slides of pure goodness. I used this as a quick reference quite a lots at the beginning of 2011 while building some examples for my work, I found it quite useful. You will surely need to get to the spec and read quite a lot if you plan on using advanced concepts "productively", but it still helps break the ice with the comprehensive OMG standard. I found quite nice that Jim Arlow introduces BPMN using three profiles (or levels if you will) Basic, Core and Extended, which somehow remind me of the four Persona introduced in the last version of OMG's BPMN standard: Simple, descriptive, DODAF and complete. Overall a nice quick reference even if having it as HTML (maybe in a WIKI) would have been an even greater pleasure.

Introduction To BPMN

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An update on BPMN 2.0 and XPDL 2.1

An Awesome presentation by Mr. Shapiro on BPMN 2.0 and XPDL 2.1. It dates a little bit since it is from end of 2009...But still an enjoyable presentation to view in your lost hours.

http://bpm.adobeconnect.com/p83899988/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

Cheers

The richest men on earth

Firstof all, no women in the first places (the only one on this ranking is at place 17). Second, queens, kings and royals of all kinds are not in the first places neither (the only prince is from saudi arabis and is at rank 19). Business men are there. thirdly, not all of them are 80 years old and have married an 18 year old model :D

On this page you will find the list of the 20 richest women and men in the world, only hack, it is in french. I have made a small list of these people so that you have an idea, with links to their pages on JournalDuNet:

• Warren Buffet, US
  
• Carlos Slim Helu, Mexican from Lebanese parents
  
• Bill Gates, US
  
• Lakshmi Mittal, India
  
• Mukesl Ambani, India
  
• Anil Ambani, India
  
• Ingvar Kamprad, Sweden (Mr. IKEA)
  
• KP Singh, India
  
• Oleg Deripaska, Russia
  
• Karl Albrecht, Germany
  
• Li Ka-Shing, hong-Kong
  
• Sheldon Adelson, US
  
• Bernard Arnault, France
  
• Lawrence Ellison, US
  
• Roman Abramovitch, Russia
  
• Theo Albrecht, Germany
  
• Liliane Bettencourt, France
  
• Alexei Mordachov, Russia
  
• Prince Al-Walid, Saudi Arabia
  
• Mikhail Fridman, Russia
  

So, results of the international tournament of the 20 richest people on earth are:

US: 4, India: 4, Russia: 4, France: 2, Germany:2,Mexico: 1, Saudi Arabia: 1, Sweden: 1, Hong-Kong: 1.

Team India, US, Russia ex-aequo in first place. It's like the davis cup here, it's all about the points :-)

Marwane El Kharbili

You wanna be paid more?

I found this page on Karriere Manager Magazin that'll tell you if what you are being paid is adapted to your qualifications, by comparing it to what the salaries on the market are. You'll have to take a test in the form of a questionnaire. The results are the analysis made of your answers by a specialized institute (which name you'll find on the page). I am pretty sure this test is only valid for Germany. I didn't take the test. First of all I don't care at all at this stage of my career, Secondly I am not ready to pay the 10 euros :D

Hope it'll be of use to some of you.

Marwane El Kharbili.

BIO

You can download my CVs in [English] | [French] | [German]

Biography
After my High School degree in 2000, I went through the CPGE (Classes Preparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles) preparatory classes for the elite French engineering schools system, from 2000 to 2002 (Morocco). I integrated the ENSIMAG (Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France) engineering school of applied mathematics and Informatics where I studied from 2002 to 2006. In parallel, I was selected for the double degree program between the ENSIMAG and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany), which is part of the European CLUSTER Program. I graduated from the ENSIMAG (MSc.) in December 2006 and from the KIT in May 2007 (Diplom-Informatiker / MSc.). I majored in both distributed systems and telematics as well as cryptography and reliable architectures of systems. I minored in Entrepreneurship.

My Master thesis was undertaken at the FZI Karlsruhe during the academic year 2006-2007. I worked on a policy-based framework for collaboration and preference-based selection of web services in business processes. During the year 2006, I worked as a student trainee in the business process modeling team of the SAP in the headquarters at Rot-Malsch.

I joined the IDS Scheer AG (now Software AG) as a researcher and software engineer in June 2007. I was involved in the research activities of the IDS Scheer AG in the IP-SUPER project (European ICT FP6) building an integrated semantic business process management stack of semantic languages (ontologies) and framework. I also worked on the design and development of the new ARIS business rules management tool of the IDS Scheer AG. My research activities focused on topics related to semantic business process management, see my publications page for some research that came out of the project. Consequently to the IP-SUPER project, I was shortly involved in the ADIWA (BMBF) project, which seeks to bring together the Internet of Things (IoT) and business process management to create intelligent and dynamic digital workflows.

Since August 2009, I am a junior researcher at the model driven engineering (MDE) group, laboratory for advanced software systems (LASSY) Lab at he CSC research Unit at the Uni.Lu. My research is focused on software language engineering, policy management, compliance, model driven engineering. In the scope of my research I apply and validate scientific results from varied research domains such as formal (operational-SOS) semantics of languages, graphical modeling languages, meta-modeling, logics and business process management.

For a detailed overview of my experience and competencies please have a look at my online CV.

Publications

Publications**
Journal Articles

• Ken; Decreus* and Marwane El Kharbili* and Geert; Poels and Elke; Pulvermueller. Policy-enabled goal-oriented requirements engineering for semantic Business Process Management. International Journal of Intelligent Systems - special issue on Goal-driven Requirements Engineering - Jonathan Lee, Wen-Tin Lee (Eds.) August 2010. Volume 25. Number 8. Pages 784-812.
  

Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)

• M. El Kharbili and E. Pulvermüller. Semantic Policies for Modeling Regulatory Process Compliance. Chapter in Stefan Smolnik, Frank Teuteberg, Oliver Thomas (Eds.). Semantic Technologies for Business and Information Systems Engineering: Concepts and Applications. IGI Global, 2011. To Appear.
• M. El Kharbili. Business Rules Management for Business Processes: From Modeling to Deployment. In Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches. pages 540 - 563. IGI Global 2010.
• S. Stein*, C. Stamber*, M. El Kharbili, P. Rubach. Semantic Business Process Management: A Case Study. In G. Mentzas, A. Friesen, editors, Semantic Enterprise Application Integration for Business Processes: Service-Oriented Frameworks, pages 228-250. IGI Global, September 2009.
• M. El Kharbili & E. Pulvermueller. Service Contract Compliance Management. In Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, 2010, Emerging Web Services Technology Volume III, Pages 105-116. Post-Proceedings.
• M. El Kharbili & T. Keil. Bringing Agility to Business Process Management: Rules Deployment in an SOA. In Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, 2010, Emerging Web Services Technology Volume III, Pages 157-170. Post-Proceedings.
• S. Stein, K. Barchewitz, and M. El Kharbili. Enabling Business Experts to Discover Web Services for Business Process Automation. In: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, 2008, Emerging Web Services Technology, Volume II, Pages 23-39. Post-Proceedings.
  

Conference & Workshop Papers (Peer Reviewed)

• M. El Kharbili. Business Process Regulatory Compliance Management Solution Frameworks: A Comparative Evaluation. Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling. To Appear. 1st-3rd February 2012.
• M. El Kharbili, Qin Ma, Pierre Kelsen and Elke Pulvermueller. Enterprise Regulatory Compliance Modeling using CoReL: An illustrative Example. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011). 5th-7th September 2011.
• M. El Kharbili, Qin Ma, Pierre Kelsen and Elke Pulvermueller. Corel: Policy-based and model-driven regulatory compliance management. In Proceedings of the The Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference. 29th August-2nd September 2011.
• A. Rusnjak, H. Hristov, M. El Kharbili, A. Speck. Managing the dynamics of e/m Commerce with a hierarchical overlapping Business-Value Framework. In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), The 6th international Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services (WAMIS 2010). Perth, Australia, 2010.
• M. El Kharbili & E. Pulvermueller. A Semantic Framework for Compliance Management in Business Process Management. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Service Computing (BPSC'09) as Part of Software, Agents and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences (SABRE), March 2009. pages 60-80.
• M. El Kharbili & N. Stojanovic. Semantic Event-Based Decision Management in Compliance Management for Business Processes. In Proceedings of the Intelligent Event Processing Symposium - AAAI Spring Symposium 2009. pages 35-40.
• M. El Kharbili, A. K. Alves de Medeiros, S. Stein, W. M. P. van der Aalst. Business Process Compliance Checking: Current State and Future Challenges. In Modellierung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (MobIs), volume 141 of LNI, pages 107-113, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 27 2008.
• M. El Kharbili & T. Keil. Bringing Agility to Business Process Management: Rules Deployment in an SOA. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) - Industrial Track, November 2008.
• C. Stamber*, S. Stein*, and M. El Kharbili. Prototypical implementation of a pragmatic approach to semantic web service discovery during process execution. In: W. Abramowicz and D. Fensel, editors, Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), volume 7 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), pages 201-212, Heidelberg, Germany, May 2008.
  
• M. El Kharbili & P. Stolarski. Building-Up a Reference Generic Regulation Ontology: A Bottom-Up Approach. In (Witold Abramowicz & Dominik Flejter (eds.)) Business Information Systems Workshops. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Volume 37, Part 7, Pages 268-279. BIS 2009 International Workshops, 2009.
• A. Rusnjak, M. El Kharbili, and A. Speck. On Leveraging Business Processes to Deal with Critical Success Factors. In Stefan Fischer, Erik Maehle, Rüdiger Reischuk (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Business Process Modeling and Realization, Lecture Notes in Informatics. GI Informatik 2009. Volume P-154. Pages 4052-4066. Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Bonn.
• W. Runte and M. El Kharbili. Constraint Checking for Business Process Management. In Stefan Fischer, Erik Maehle, Rüdiger Reischuk (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Business Process Modeling and Realization, Lecture Notes in Informatics. GI Informatik 2009. Volume P-154. Pages 4093-4103. Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Bonn.
• M. El Kharbili. Semantic Compliance Management in Business process Management. In W. Abramowicz, L. Maciaszek, R. Kowalczyk, A. Speck (Eds.), Proceedings of the Business Process, Services Computing and Intelligent Service Management, GI, Lecture Notes in Informatics. 2009. pages 235-236.
• K. decreus, M. El Kharbili, G. Poels, E. Pulvermueller. Bridging Requirements Engineering and Business Process Management. In Juergen Muench and Peter Liggesmeyer (Eds.), Workshop Proceedings of the SE 2009 - REBPM, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Volume 150. Page. 215-222. Notes in Informatics. Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI). March 2009.
• M. El Kharbili, S. Stein, E. Pulvermüller. Policy-based Semantic Compliance Checking for Business Process Management. In Gemischter Workshop zu Referenzmodellierung und semantische Geschäftsprozessmodellierung, volume 420 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 178-192, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 27 2008.
• M. El Kharbili & E. Pulvermueller. Service Contract Compliance Management. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Emerging Web Services Technology (WEWST), November 2008. Pages 87-96.
• M. El Kharbili. Event-Based Decision Management in Compliance Management. In Proceedings of the first workshop on complex event processing at the future internet symposium 2008.
• S. Stein*, C. Stamber*, M. El Kharbili. ARIS for Semantic Business Process Management. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 1, Volume 17, Business Process Management Workshops, Part 7, Pages 498-509. Workshop on Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws), Milan, Italy, September 1 2008.
• S. Stein*, C. Stamber*, M. El Kharbili, P. Rubach. Semantic Business Process Management: An Empirical Case Study. In Gemischter Workshop zu Referenzmodellierung und semantische Geschäftsprozessmodellierung, volume 420 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 165-177, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 27 2008.
• S. Stein, Y. Lauer, M. El Kharbili. Using Template Analysis as Background Reading Technique for Requirements Elicitation. In GI Software Engineering, volume 143 of LNI, pages 127-138, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 6 2009.
• M. El Kharbili, S. Stein, I. Markovic, E. Pulvermüller. Towards Policy-Powered Semantic Enterprise Compliance Management – Discussion Paper. In proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Pages 16-21. SBPM2008, European Semantic Web Conference 2008, Tenerife, Spain, June 2 2008.
• M. El Kharbili, S. Stein, I. Markovic, E. Pulvermüller. Towards a Framework for Semantic Business Process Compliance Management. In proceedings of the workshop on The Impact of Governance, Risk, and Compliance on Information Systems (GRCIS), volume 339 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 1-15. Montpellier, France, June 17 2008.
• S. Stein, K. Barchewitz, and M. El Kharbili. Enabling Business Experts to Discover Web Services for Business Process Automation. In: C. Pautasso and T. Gschwind, editors, 2nd Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technology, pages 19-35, Halle, Germany, November 26 2007.

Technical Reports

• M. El Kharbili. E3PC: Enterprise Extended Event-Driven Process Chains - A Model-Driven Method for Designing Formal Enterprise Modeling Languages, nr. TR-LASSY-11-12, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2011.
• M. El Kharbili. E3PC: Enterprise Extended Event-Driven Process Chains - A Model-Driven Method for Designing Formal Enterprise Modeling Languages, nr. TR-LASSY-11-07, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2011.
• M. El Kharbili, A.K. Alves de Medeiros, I. Weber. Semantic Process Compliance Checking. Deliverable 5.6. Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. March 2009.
• M. Born, G. Zeissler, S. Zoeller, M. El Kharbili, R.Mozil. Semantic Business Process Modelling & Quality Assurance. Deliverable 2.4. Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. March 2009.
• R. Mozil, G. Zeissler, S. Zoeller, M. Born, M. El Kharbili. Semantic Business Process Change Management. Deliverable 2.5. Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. March 2009.
• Agata Filipowska, Monika Kaczmarek, Marwane El Kharbili, Ivan Markovic, Pierre Grenon, Monika Starzecka, Adam Walczak. Ontology Stack for High-level Business Process Knowledge. Deliverable D1.6. , Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. October 2008.
• Marwane El Kharbili, S. Stein. Compliance Management auf Basis semantischer Richtlinien. In K.-P. Fähnrich, S. Kühne, M. Thränert, editors, Model-Driven Integration Engineering, volume XI of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, pages 253-262. Eigenverlag Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), Leipzig, Germany, September 2008.
• Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Wil van der Aalst, Peter van den Brand, Ton Weijters, Sebastian Stein, Yves Lauer, Marwane El Kharbili, Gernot Zeissler, Michael Oppitz, Stefan Zoeller. Process Instance Analysis Environment. Deliverable 5.2, Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. 4.10.2007.
• Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros (TUE), Wil van der Aalst (TUE), Peter van den Brand (TUE), Ton Weijters (TUE), Sebastian Stein (IDS), Yves Lauer (IDS), Marwane El Kharbili (IDS), Gernot Zeissler (IBIS), Michael Oppitz (IBIS), Stefan Zoeller (IBIS): Process Instance Analysis Environment. Deliverable 5.2, Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between Enterprises. Project IST 026850 SUPER. October, 2007.
• Marwane El Kharbili. Policy-based Collaboration in Semantic Business Processes. Master Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Universität Karlsruhe. FZI Karlsruhe, AIFB Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, Germany, 31.03.2007.
• Marwane El Kharbili. Thomas Mathes, Praharshana Perera, Christian Emig, Sebastian Abeck: Case Study User Provisioning Processes in Identity Management addressing SAP Campus Management, Bericht zum Projekt „Werkstatt Unternehmenssoftware Karlsruhe“ (WUSKAR), Karlsruhe, 2006.

Presentations (Not Paper Presentations)

• Visit to Dr. Guido Governatori at NICTA Research in Brisbane, Queensland. Presentation at Queensland University of Technology about my work on the CoReL DSL for business policy modeling and DSL-based approaches to business process modeling.

• Visit to my Co-Advisor's Software Engineering group, Prof. Elke Pulvermueller. 06-10 December 2010, Universitaet Osnabrueck, Oberseminar Informatik. http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/pulvermueller/. Talk titled: Regulatorisches Compliance Management: Policy-Basiert und Modell-Getrieben. In German.

• Visit to Professor Guido Boella's group, dipartimento di informatica and centro di scienza cognitiva. Universita' dgli studi di Torino. 21-25 of June 2010, Universita delli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy. http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/. Talk title: Compliance for Business Process Management: model-driven and policy-based.

• Visit to Prof. Geert Poels and Ken Decreus at the University of Gent. Presentation about my work on a semantic (Ontology-based) framework for process compliance management. October 2008.

• Presentation at the 3rd workshop on security and Trust. CRP henri Tudor, January 11-12 2010, Luxemburg City, Luxemburg. Talk Title: An Integrated Compliance Management Framework for Business Processes - Policy-based and Model-Driven.

• Marwane El Kharbili, Dumitru Roman, Monika Starzecka: Semantic Business Processes Management (SUPER Tutorial - 3 Hours - English). 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC2009), Leipzig, Germany. March 23, 2009.
  

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20100506 JAX BPM und BPMN Open Source Roundtrip bei 1&1

Check out this SlideShare Presentation By the guys over at Camunda. A quite nice presentation summarizing their approach to better couple the developmentr part of BPM and the business/strategy part. The tooling they use, Signavio, Camunda Fox, and JBPM (PVM, Eclipse | SVN) is also presented.

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