Jana Koehler

IBM Research GmbH Zurich Research Laboratory CH-8803 Rueschlikon Saeumerstrasse 4 / Postfach Switzerland +41-44-724-8707 +41-44-724-8953

I received my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from Saarland University, Saarbruecken, in 1994. From 1990 until 1995, I worked at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI), project PHI. I was a guest researcher at the University of Linkoping in 1994, the University of Maryland in 1995, and a postdoc at ICSI Berkeley from 1995 to 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 from 1999 to 2001 to help develop a new elevator control platform that combines AI planning with Service-Oriented Architecture principles.

In 2001, I joined the Computer Science Research Department of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where I have built up the Business Integration Technologies research group that works on software engineering and compiler technologies for tools and runtimes used for the management of business processes. I lead this group as a manager since 2005.

A movie about my work by swiss movie maker Yvonne Helfenstein for Futura TV.

In 2008, I was awarded the ICAPS Honorable Mention for Influential Paper Award (w J. Hoffmann & B. Nebel & Y. Dimoupolus) and the BPM-08 Best Paper Award (w J. Vanhatalo & H. Völzer). I am also listed in Marquis Who is Who in Science and Engineering and Who is Who in the World.

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.

Publications at IBM

• Business Process Management and other areas (since 2002)

Publications 1992 - 2001

• AI planning (1992 - 2000), IPP planner
• Knowledge Representation, Logic, Algorithmic Methods (1995 - 1999)
• Intelligent Elevator Control (1998 - 2001)

Software from me and my group that is publicly available

• Reference libraries for testing BPM tools on a large collection of business process models, released December 2009.
• IBM Pattern-based Process Model Accelerators for WebSphere Business Modeler by Thomas Gschwind, me and others, released June 2009.
• XML Import tool from ARIS to IBM WebSphere Business Modeler by Thomas Gschwind and me, released February 2008, updated December 2009.
• 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 Web Tool 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.
• BPEL Repository by Jussi Vanhatalo, released April 2006.

Other Activities

In 2009, I was the Industrial PC Chair of the 7th Intern. Conference on Business Process Management.

We participated in the EU Project Super where we developed the PST, a parse tree for business process models that has many applications and pioneered patterns, refactorings, and transformations for business process models, see BPM-related publications and software downloads above. A cool video about SUPER.

• Bike Trip through Switzerland 2002
• Bike Trip through Austria 2003