Business Process Management

Workflow Technology and Applications

Journal Publications:

1. Harry J. Wang, J. Leon Zhao, and Liang-Jie Zhang, "Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Discovering Process Models from Business Policies," Decision Support Systems, 2009, forthcoming. (Link)
2. Jiexun Li, Harry J. Wang, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "A Policy-based Process Mining Framework: Mining Business Policy Texts for Discovering Process Models," Journal of Information Systems and E-Business Management, 2009, forthcoming. (Link)
3. J. Leon Zhao, Cheng Hsu, Hemant K. Jain, Jim C. Spohrer, Mohan Tanniru, and Harry J. Wang, "ICIS 2007 Panel Report: Bridging Service Computing and Service Management: How MIS Contributes to Service Orientation ," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 22, Article 22, pp. 413 - 428, March 2008. (AIS eLibrary Link)
4. J. Leon Zhao, Michael Goul, Sandeep Purao, Padmal Vitharana, and Harry J. Wang, "Impact of Service-Centric Computing on Business and Education," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 22, pp. 295-310, March 2008. (AIS eLibrary Link)
5. Guido L. Geerts and Harry J. Wang, "The Timeless Way of Building REA Enterprise Systems”, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Vol 4, pp. 161-182, 2007.
6. Harry J. Wang, Hsing K. Cheng, and J. Leon Zhao, "Web Services Enabled e-Market Access Control Model", International Journal of Web Services Research, 1(1), pp.21-40, 2004.

Conference Publications:

1. Harry J. Wang, "Teaching Case on SOA and Web Services in a System Analysis and Design Course,” Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2009), Phoenix, Arizona, December 14 - 15, 2009, forthcoming. (Nominee for Innovation in Teaching Award)
2. Harry J. Wang and Harris Wu, "Supporting Business Process Design through a Web 2.0 Process Repository,” Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2009), Phoenix, Arizona, December 14 - 15, 2009, forthcoming.
3. Harry J. Wang and Harris Wu, "A Collaborative Knowledge Management Approach to Developing an Integrated Process Repository,” Proceedings of the Third China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2009), Guangzhou, China, June 27-28, 2009.
4. Jiexun Li, Harry J. Wang, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Relation-centric Task Identification for Policy-based Process Mining,” Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008), Paris, France, December 14 - 17, 2008. (AIS eLibrary Link)
5. Jiexun Li, Harry J. Wang, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Process Component Identification from Business Policy Documents,” Proceedings of the Second China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2008), Chengdu, China, June 29-30, 2008. (Best Paper Award)
6. Jiexun Li, Harry J. Wang, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Mining Business Policy Texts for Discovering Process Models: A Framework and Some Initial Results”, Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on E-business (WeB 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007. (Best Paper Nominee)
7. Harry J. Wang and Clinton E. White, "Process Based Business Reporting (PBBR): A Framework to Integrate Business Reporting into Business Processes”, Proceedings of the First China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2007), Shanghai, China, July 22-23, 2007.
8. Padmal Vitharana, Kumar Bhaskaran, Hemant Jain, Harry J. Wang, and J. Leon Zhao, " Service-Oriented Enterprises and Architectures: State of the Art and Research Opportunities”, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), Keystone, Colorado, August 9 - 12, 2007. (AIS eLibrary Link)
9. Manlu Liu, Harry J. Wang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Achieving Flexibility via Service-Centric Community Source: the Case of Kuali”, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), Keystone, Colorado, August 9 - 12, 2007.
10. Harry J. Wang, J. Leon Zhao, and Liang-Jie Zhang, "Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Towards Process Design Automation ", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 10 - 13, 2006. (AIS eLibrary Link)
11. Harry J. Wang and J. Leon Zhao, " A Formal Approach to Verification of Process Constraints”, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 9 - 10, 2006.
12. Harry J. Wang and J. Leon Zhao, "Policy-driven Business Process Modeling in E-business", Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on E-business (WeB 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 10, 2005.
13. Harry J. Wang and J. Leon Zhao, "A Logic-based Modeling Approach to Managing Workflow Policy Changes", Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), Omaha, NE , August 11-14, 2005.
14. Harry J. Wang and J. Leon Zhao, “Change Management of Workflow Security Policies”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Process Management and Information Systems, Washington , D.C., December 12, 2004.
15. Harry J. Wang , J. Leon Zhao, Jay Nunamaker, Jr., and Mohan Tanniru, "AC-Composer: An Access Control System for Web Services Orchestration", Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), New York, August 5 - 8, 2004.
16. Harry J. Wang and J. Leon Zhao, "Web Services Enabled E-Market Access Control (EMAC)", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23 - 26, 2003.
17. J. Leon Zhao, Harry J. Wang, S. Sharon Huang, and Guoqing Chen, "Relationship Driven Access Control in a Supply Web", Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2002), Barcelona, Spain, December 14 - 15, 2002.

Book Chapter:

• Harry J. Wang, J. Leon Zhao, and Hsing K. Cheng, "Web Services Enabled E-Market Access Control Model," in: Modern Technologies in Web Services Research, L.J. Zhang (ed.), Idea Group Pub, 2007.

Working Papers:

• "Constraint-centric Workflow Change Analytics," with J. Leon Zhao.
• "Managing Data Security in E-Markets through Relationship Driven Access Control," with J. Leon Zhao and Guoqing Chen.
• "Supporting Business Process Design through a Web 2.0 Process Repository," with Harris Wu.

Invited Presentations

• "Process Based Business Reporting (PBBR): A Framework to Integrate Business Reporting into Business Processes”, (with Clinton E. White), at the 1st Continuous Reporting Symposium at Rutgers Business School, September 28th, 2007.
• "Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Extracting Process Models from Business Policies”, at iSchool Research Seminar at Drexel University, May 29th, 2007.

Conference Presentations:

• "A Collaborative Knowledge Management Approach to Developing an Integrated Process Repository,” at the Third China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2009), Guangzhou, China, June 27-28, 2009.
• "Mining Business Policy Texts for Discovering Process Models: A Framework and Some Initial Results”, at the Sixth Workshop on E-business (WeB 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007.
• "Process Based Business Reporting (PBBR): A Framework to Integrate Business Reporting into Business Processes” at the First China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2007), Shanghai, China, July 22nd , 2007.
• "A Formal Approach to Verification of Process Constraints” at the Sixteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 9th, 2006.
• "Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Towards Process Design Automation " at the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 11th, 2006.
• "Policy-driven Business Process Modeling in E-business" at the Fourth Workshop on E-business (WeB 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 10th, 2005.
• "A Logic-based Modeling Approach to Managing Workflow Policy Changes" at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), Omaha, NE, August 12th, 2005.
• “Change Management of Workflow Security Policies” at the Workshop on Process Management and Information Systems, Washington, D.C., December 12th, 2004.
• "AC-Composer: An Access Control System for Web Services Orchestration" at the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), New York, August 6th, 2004.
• "Web Services Enabled E-Market Access Control (EMAC)" at the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23rd, 2003.