Michael Adams

B.Comp (Distinction) CQU, B.Comp (Hons.) CQU, MCSE

Contact Information Teaching Research Publications

I am a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

I am also a member of the BPM Group at the Centre for Information Technology Innovation at QUT.

Contact Information

Room:	S636 Gardens Point Campus
Phone:	+61 7 3864 1978
Fax:	+61 7 3864 1969
Postal:	School of Information Systems Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane, Queensland, 4001 Australia
Email:	m3.adams@qut.edu.au

Teaching

My teaching responsibilities generally focus on programming languages.

Semester 1/2005

Unit:

Contact Times:

ITB218 Application Programming

Wednesday 8:00 – 9:00

1:00 – 2:00

Thursday 8:30 – 10:30

Research

I am currently working on a PhD in the field of workflows. Specifically, my research is looking at how to dynamically adapt workflow instances and specifications when exceptional behaviours occur (that is events that weren’t expected to happen).

Publications

Michael Adams, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, David Edmond and Wil M.P. van der Aalst, “Facilitating Flexibility and Dynamic Exception Handling in Workflows through Worklets”, In The 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Forum (CAiSE05 Forum), (to appear) June 2005, Porto, Portugal.

- A longer version of this paper appears as a technical report here.

Michael Adams, David Edmond and Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, “The Application of Activity Theory to Dynamic Workflow Adaptation Issues”, In The Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS-2003), July 2003, Adelaide, Australia, p 1836 - 1852.

Sally Clarke, Richard Thomas and Michael Adams, “Developing Case Studies to Enhance Student Learning”, In The Seventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2005) January 2005, Newcastle, Australia.

Michael Adams, Sally Clarke and Richard Thomas, “Developing Graduate Capabilities Through PBL”, In The Third Asia Pacific Conference on Problem Based Learning, December 2001, Rockhampton, Queensland.

Sally Clarke, Richard Thomas and Michael Adams, “Model of Thinking in the PBL Process: Comparison of Medicine and Information Technology”, In The Third Asia Pacific Conference on Problem Based Learning, December 2001, Rockhampton, Queensland.

Last Edited 05/04/2005.