Guy Redding

Contact Details

PhD Student
Business Process Management Group
Enterprise Systems Cluster
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Level 5, 126 Margaret Street
Brisbane 4000, Queensland
Australia

Phone: +61 (0) 7 3138 9488
Fax: +61 (0) 7 3138 9390
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Resume

Education

Master of Information Technology (Research)
Queensland University of Technology - Brisbane QLD
Masters Dissertation: A Preliminary Formalism for Variable Coupling in Agile Systems - Electronic Edition
Dissertation Examiners: Dr. Christoph Bussler and Dr. Glenn Smith
Patent Publication: "Distributed system architecture using object migration to implement variable coupling" - EP1672499, 20060155868
March 2004 - November 2005

Bachelor of Software Engineering (2A Hons)
Murdoch University - Perth W.A.
Honours Thesis: SAP Load Sensing Project - Electronic Edition
Patent Publication: "State tracking load storage system" - WO/2004/113851
February 2000 - November 2003

Current Projects

ARC Linkage Project with SWS Pty Ltd

Reconciling Activity-centric and Business Object-centric Approaches to Business Process Modelling
Expected completion - December 2008
This project is the topic of my PhD research at QUT.

Project News:

2007
- Presented PhD Confirmation of Candidature seminar at QUT.
- SWS FlowConnect Control Flow Pattern Evaluation released.
- Workshop paper Transforming Object-oriented to Process-oriented Models presented at the Business Process Design Workshop (BPM 2007) - Electronic Edition.
2008
- Journal article Generating Business Process Models from Object Behavior Models, to appear in Information Systems Management Volume 25, Number 4, Fall 2008: Business Process Design Special Issue.

Completed Projects

YAWL for the Film Industry (YAWL4Film)

July 2007 - September 2007
I contributed to this project by implementing a reusable method to integrate the custom JSP forms needed for this project with a YAWL worklist. Additionally I had some involvement in the testing phase of the YAWL process and JSP forms prior to delivery of this project to the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). This work was a contribution to the research presented in the following paper:

Chun Ouyang, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, Marcello La Rosa, Michael Rosemann, Katherine Shortland and David Court, Camera, Set, Action: Automating Film Production via Business Process Management, "Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons" Conference (hosted by CCi), Brisbane, Australia, 25^th - 27^th June 2008 - Electronic Edition

YAWLXForms Tomcat Web Application

April 2004 - April 2007
I developed a user interface solution to dynamically create forms to gather and validate input for tasks in YAWL, based on the Chiba XForms processor. At the time this improved YAWL's ease of use, robustness and presentation by using validating forms for user input instead of the previous situation where XML instance data was manipulated directly for data entry.

YAWL Visualisation Component

March - August 2005
I developed a Java Applet that enables different views of a YAWL worklist including a spacial, temporal, grid and list view of work items. The aim of this project was to investigate techniques of merging the resource perspective in YAWL with a visualisation to improve peoples ability to manage their work allocation with limited resources effectively by comparing several views of the same worklist. This work is the runtime implementation of the research presented in the following paper:

R. Brown and H. Paik, Resource-Centric Worklist Visualisation, CoopIS’05, Agia Napa, Cyprus, 31^st October - 4^th November 2005 - Electronic Edition

..and this concept of visual work allocation also popped up in this paper:

M. de Leoni, W.M.P. van der Aalst and A.H.M. ter Hofstede, Visual Support for Work Assignment in Process-Aware Information Systems: Framework, Formalisation, Operationalisation, to appear in BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, 1^st - 4^th September 2008 - Electronic Edition

SAP Research - Karlsruhe, Germany
Load Sensing Project

January - July 2003
For this internship I developed a software prototype that demonstrated how the concept of taking real-time weight measurements using load sensors could be applied to track inventory through supply chains in retail and warehouse scenarios. The prototype was presented as an Innovation Pavilion technology demonstration to SAP customers and partners at Sapphire 2003 held at Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida, which I attended as a demonstrator. This internship project also formed the basis of the following patent application:

U.S. Patent Publication # WO/2004/113851 titled "State tracking load storage system".

Following the successful completion of this project I was then awarded with the "Best Student Project" at SAP Research for 2003.

Bio

I was raised on a farm in the Shire of Dowerin in the Western Australian wheatbelt. After finishing high school in Northam I worked and studied in Perth until completing a Bachelor in Software Engineering at Murdoch. Highlights during this time included my weekend job at Paramount and completing an internship for SAP Research in Karlsruhe, Germany as an exchange student. The opportunity then arose to further my studies at QUT in Brisbane. I am now a PhD student in the BPM Group at QUT.

Revised: July 2^nd, 2008