About
Tammo van Lessen is an independent consultant in SOA/BPM and PhD student with Prof. Frank Leymann at the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests are in the areas WS-*, SOA and BPM. He participated in the EU funded SUPER project.
He holds a "Dipl.-Inf." degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Besides his research work he actively participates in Open Source and does stuff he can't explain his grandpa.
Contact
Research Interest
- Conversational Web Services (ConWS)
- Message Exchange Patterns
- Business Process Enactment
- Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM)
Projects
active,
completed,
hibernated,
dormant.
Publications
Book Chapters
- Karastoyanova, Dimka; van Lessen, Tammo; Leymann, Frank; Ma, Zhilei; Nitzsche, Jörg; Wetzstein, Branimir: Semantic Business Process Management: Applying Ontologies in BPM. In: Cardoso, Jorge (Hrsg); van der Aalst, Wil (Hrsg): Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling, Information Science Publishing, 2009.
Journal Papers
- van Lessen, Tammo; Nitzsche, Jörg; Leymann, Frank: Conversational Web Services: Leveraging BPELlight for Expressing WSDL 2.0 Message Exchange Patterns. In: Enterprise Information Systems. Vol. 3(3), Taylor & Francis, 2009.
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: Composing Services on the Grid Using BPEL4SWS. In: Multiagent and Grid Systems. Vol. 4, IOS Press, 2008.
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: WSMO/X in the context of business processes: improvement recommendations. In: International Journal of Web Information Systems. Vol. 3(1/2), Emerald, 2007.
Conference Papers
- Mietzner, Ralph; van Lessen, Tammo; Wiese, Alexander; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: Virtualizing Services and Resources with ProBus: The WS-Policy-Aware Service and Resource Bus. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2009.
- van Lessen, Tammo; Leymann, Frank; Mietzner, Ralph; Nitzsche, Jörg; Schleicher, Daniel: A Management Framework for WS-BPEL. In: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services 2008.
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Leymann, Frank: Extending BPELlight for Expressing Multi-Partner Message Exchange Patterns. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008).
- Pedrinaci, Carlos; Brelage, Christian; van Lessen, Tammo; Domingue, John; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: Semantic Business Process Management: Scaling up the Management of Business Processes. In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) 2008.
- van Lessen, Tammo; Nitzsche, Jörg; Leymann, Frank: Formalising Message Exchange Patterns using BPELlight. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'08) Research Track, 2008.
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Leymann, Frank: WSDL 2.0 Message Exchange Patterns: Limitations and Opportunities. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2008).
- Karastoyanova, Dimka; van Lessen, Tammo; Leymann, Frank; Ma, Zhilei; Nitzsche, Jörg; Wetzstein, Branimir; Bhiri, Sami; Hauswirth, Manfred; Zaremba, Maciej: A Reference Architecture for Semantic Business Process Management Systems. In: Bichler, Martin (ed.); Hess, Thomas (ed.); Krcmar, Helmut (ed.); Lechner, Ulrike (ed.); Matthes, Florian (ed.); Picot, Arnold (ed.); Speitkamp, Benjamin (ed.); Wolf, Petra (ed.): Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008.
- van Lessen, Tammo; Wetzstein, Branimir; Nitzsche, Jörg; Ma, Zhilei; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: Geschäftsprozessmanagement Meets Semantic Web.. In: Spath, D. (ed.); Weisbecker, A. (ed.); Höß, O. (ed.); Drawehn, J. (Hrsg.) (ed.): Tagungsband Science Meets Business. Stuttgarter Softwaretechnik Forum 2007, Fraunhofer IAO, 23. November 2007 (pdf).
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: BPELlight. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) (pdf).
- van Lessen, Tammo; Nitzsche, Jörg; Karastoyanova, Dimka: Facilitating Rich Data Manipulation in BPEL using E4X. In: Kopp, Oliver (ed.); Lohmann, Niels (ed.): Proceedings of the 1st Central-European Workshop on Services and their Composition, ZEUS 2009, Stuttgart, Germany, March 2--3, 2009 (pdf).
- Pedrinaci, Carlos; Lambert, Dave; Wetzstein, Branimir; van Lessen, Tammo; Cekov, Luchesar; Dimitrov, Marin: SENTINEL: a semantic business process monitoring tool. In: Duke, Alistair (ed.); Hepp, Martin (ed.); Bontcheva, Kalina (ed.); Vilain, Marc B. (ed.): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence, OBI 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 27, 2008.
- Kopp, Oliver; van Lessen, Tammo; Nitzsche, Jörg: The Need for a Choreography-aware Service Bus. In: YR-SOC 2008 (pdf).
- Nitzsche, Jörg; van Lessen, Tammo; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank: BPEL for Semantic Web Services (BPEL4SWS). In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Agents and Web Services in Distributed Environments AWeSome'07 -- On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops (pdf).
- van Lessen, Tammo; Nitzsche, Jörg; Dimitrov, Marin; Konstantinov, Mihail; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Cekov, Luchesar; Leymann, Frank: An Execution Engine for Semantic Business Processes. In: Proceedings of Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops (pdf).
- Nitzsche, Jörg; Wutke, Daniel; van Lessen, Tammo: An Ontology for Executable Business Processes. In: Hepp, Martin (ed.); Hinkelmann, Knut (ed.); Karagiannis, Dimitris (ed.); Klein, Rüdiger (ed.); Stojanovic, Nenad (ed.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007) held in conjunction with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) Innsbruck, Austria, June 7, 2007.
- Karastoyanova, Dimka; Wetzstein, Branimir; van Lessen, Tammo; Wutke, Daniel; Nitzsche, Jörg; Leymann, Frank: Semantic Service Bus: Architecture and Implementation of a Next Generation Middleware. In: Proceedings of the Second International ICDE Workshop on Service Engineering (SEIW 2007).
Presentations
- van Lessen, Tammo; Moser, Simon: JAX 2009: SOA-basierte Business Integration mit Eclipse BPEL und Apache ODE, Presentation, 2009.
- van Lessen, Tammo: W-JAX 2008: Web Services Orchestrierung mit BPEL 2.0 und Apache ODE, Presentation, 2008.
- van Lessen, Tammo; Haller, Armin; Komazec, Srdjan: Tutorial on "Semantic Business Process Management", Presentation, 2008.
Bibliography in BibTeX, some publications are also listed at DBLP, CSBIB, BibSonomy
Honors
- IBPM Award 2007 - Winner of the 1st prize for the best diploma thesis in the category Business Process Management (BPM).
Activities
- Apache Committer / PMC Member: Apache ODE (Open Source BPEL Engine)
- Speaker at W-JAX / SOACON 2009, November 9-13, 2009, Munich, Germany
- Speaker at JAX / SOACON 2009, April 20-24, 2009, Mainz, Germany
- Speaker at W-JAX / SOACON 2008, November 3-7, 2008, Munich, Germany
- Session Chair, SaaS Kongress 2008, October 29, 2008, Mainz, Germany
- Google Sommer of Code (GSoC) 2009 Co-mentor: Apache ODE Integration in BPELUnit
- Google Sommer of Code (GSoC) 2008 Mentor: Ajax-based Monitoring Console for Apache ODE
- Program Committee: 2nd Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+), held in conjunction with the ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 Conference
- Program Committee: 2nd Workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM 2009), held in conjunction with the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009)
- Reviewer for the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2009, April 20-24, Madrid, Spain
- Program Committee: 4th International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2008) - July 2008 - Crystal City, Washington, D.C., USA
- Program Committee: 2nd International SeMSoC Workshop at ICSOC 2007, September 17, 2007, Vienna, Austria
- Program Committee: 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2006), September 3-7, 2006, Beijing, China
- Reviewer for the 5th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods 2008, September 4-5, 2008, Milan, Italy
- Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2008, September 23-26, 2008, Milan, Italy
- Reviewer for the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) 2008, September 1st - 4th, 2008, Milan, Italy
- Reviewer Committee of the Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Grid Computing, High-performance and Distributed Applications", 2008
- Reviewer for the Journal ACM Transactions on the Web, 2008
- Reviewer for the The 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) 2007, November 26-28, 2007, Halle, Germany
- Reviewer for the 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2007), 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
- Reviewer for the 2nd International SeMSoC Workshop – Business Oriented Aspects concerning Semantics and Methodologies in Service-oriented Computing at the 5th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2007, September 17th, 2008, Vienna, Austria
- Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- Reviewer for the 7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) 2007, July 16-20, Como, Italy
- Reviewer for the 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2006, December 4th - 7th, 2006, Chicago, USA