Jana Koehler

Address: IBM Research GmbH
Zurich Research Laboratory
CH-8803 Rueschlikon
Saeumerstrasse 4 / Postfach
Switzerland

Room: C322 Tel.: +41-44-724-8707

Tel.: +41-44-724-8953 E-Mail:

I received my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from University of Saarland in 1994. From 1990 until 1995, I was working at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI), project PHI. I was a guest researcher at University of Linkoping in 1994, the University of Maryland in 1995, and a postdoc at ICSI Berkeley in 1995/1996. From 1996 to 1999, I was an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg where I got my habilitation (Dr.habil.) and developed the IPP planning system. In May 1998, I started working as a consultant for Schindler and joined the company between Fall 1999 and Spring 2001 to help develop a new elevator control platform that combines AI planning with principles known today as Service-Oriented Architecture. In April 2001, I joined the Computer Science Research Department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where I have built up a new research group focusing on business-driven development, which is a software engineering methodology for the development of service-oriented architectures starting from business process models. I lead this group as a manager since 2005.

I am a member of the german Computer Science Society GI, a life-time member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI, and president of the DFKI alumni association VFFDFKI.

The webpage of the Business Integration Technologies group at ZRL. My previous webpage at the University of Freiburg.

My research interests develop with the projects I am working on: planning and scheduling technology, combinatorial optimization techniques and complexity, workflow systems, model checking, process algebras, service-oriented architectures, business process modeling, and semantic web. My current research mostly relates to the IBM WebSphere product and related services.

Publications 1992 - present:

Software from my group that is publicly available

BPEL Repository by Jussi Vanhatalo, released April 2006.
XML Import tool from ARIS to IBM WebSphere Business Modeler by Thomas Gschwind and me, released February 2008.
Constraint Patterns and Consistency Analysis for IBM Rational Software Architect (see also Step-by-step guide) by Michael Wahler, Lee Ackerman, and Scott Schneider, released February 2008.
Architectural Decision Knowledge Wiki by Olaf Zimmermann and Nelly Schuster, released March 2008.
Object Life Cycle Explorer for IBM WebSphere Business Modeler by Ksenia Wahler, Jochen Küster, and Aurelien Monot, released May 2008.

My group currently participates in the EU Project Super. In 2008, we are involved in the organization of the following workshops:

In 2009, I will be the Industrial Chair of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management.

Other activities

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