Jan Vanthienen (born 1956) is a Belgian

information systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems comprise four components: task, people, structu ...

scientist and professor of

engineering at Leuven University (KU Leuven), known for his contributions to

business process modeling Business process modeling (BPM) is the action of capturing and representing business processes, processes of an enterprise (i.e. modeling them), so that the current business processes may be analyzed, applied securely and consistently, improved, ...

process mining Process mining is a family of techniques for analyzing event data to understand and improve operational processes. Part of the fields of data science and Business_process_management, process management, process mining is generally built on Logging ...

and

business engineering A business process, business method, or business function is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks performed by people or equipment in which a specific sequence produces a service or product (that serves a particular business g ...

Biography

Vanthienen received MA in applied economics and computer science at the Leuven University in 1979, and a PhD in applied economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Leuven University, in 1986.Curriculum Vitae - Jan Vanthienen
Accessed June 21, 2009. He started working as a researcher at the Leuven University in 1979, where he became an associate professor in 1987, a professor in 1994, and a full professor in 1996. At the moment, in 2009, he is chairholder of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Chair on E-Business at KU Leuven and co-chairholder of the Microsoft Research Chair on Intelligent Environments. He has been a visiting professor at Loyola College in Maryland, Sellinger School of Business and Management,

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, in 1991, at the

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since 1998 and at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School from 2000 to 2003. Vanthienen has been a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Informatie'' from 1995 to 1999, ''International Journal of Digital Accounting'' since 2001 and ''Expert Systems with Applications'' since 2002. He is a founding member of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS), and a member of the ACM and the

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. , Vanthienan served on the

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for the

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journal ''Decision Support Systems''.

Work

His research interests are in the field of

: information systems analysis and design, business rules & business processes, business intelligence, knowledge-based systems, intelligent systems, object-oriented development, decision tables,

e-learning Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning and teaching. When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech" ...

information management Information management (IM) is the appropriate and optimized capture, storage, retrieval, and use of information. It may be personal information management or organizational. Information management for organizations concerns a cycle of organiz ...

. More specific research topics are business rule modeling, rule-based business processes,

e-business Electronic business (also known as online business or e-business) is any kind of business or commercial activity that includes sharing information across the internet. Commerce constitutes the exchange of products and services between businesses, ...

business intelligence Business intelligence (BI) consists of strategies, methodologies, and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of BI technologies include Financial reporting, reporting, online an ...

, artificial intelligence marketing,

knowledge based system A knowledge-based system (KBS) is a computer program that reasons and uses a knowledge base to solve complex problems. Knowledge-based systems were the focus of early artificial intelligence researchers in the 1980s. The term can refer to a br ...

s, V&V, decision tables, help desk and service automation.

Publications

Vanthienen has published numerous papers, articles and other publications.Publications Jan Vanthienen
Accessed June 21, 2009. A selection: * 2006
"Designing compliant business processes with obligations and permissions. Business process management workshops"
With S. Goedertier. In: ''

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''. vol. 4103, pp. 5 – 14. * 2007
"A new approach for discovering business process models from event logs"
With S. Goedertier et al. ''DTEW - KBI_0716'', pp. 1 – 20. * 2007
"EM-BrA2CE v0.1: A vocabulary and execution model for declarative business process modeling"
With S. Goedertier and R. Haesen. DTEW - KBI_0728. * 2008
"Semantic decision tables: self-organizing and reorganizable decision tables"
With Y. Tang, and R. Meersman. In: ''Lecture Notes in Computer Science''. pp. 434 – 449.

References

External links

Personal homepage. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanthienen, Jan 1954 births Living people Belgian computer scientists Belgian business theorists Catholic University of Leuven alumni Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain