Eighth European Business Intelligence & Big Data Summer School (eBISS 2018)

Directors of the School

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  Boudewijn van Dongen

  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Dr. ir. Boudewijn van Dongen is an associate professor at the Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) research group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research focus is on Process Mining and specifically on conformance checking, aiming to develop techniques and tools to analyze databases and logs of large-scale information systems for the purpose of detecting, isolating, diagnosing and predicting misconformance in the business processes supported by these systems. The notion of alignments play a seminal role in conformance checking and the AIS group is world-leading in the definition of alignments for various types of observed behavior and for various modelling languages. Besides, the AIS group investigates methods, techniques and tools for the design and analysis of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS), i.e., systems that support business processes (workflows) inside and between organizations. The AIS group is generally seen as one of the strongest Business Process Management (BPM) groups in the world. This is also reflected by the widespread use of its open sourced tools like ProM, CPN Tools and YAWL.

  Email:   b.f.v.dongen@tue.nl
  Web:   http://www.win.tue.nl/ais/
  

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  Esteban Zimányi

  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include data warehouses, spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, semantic web and web services.

  Email:   ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
  Web:   http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/esteban