Kees Max van Hee (born 1946) is a Dutch

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

, and Emeritus Professor at the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology (), Abbreviation, abbr. TU/e, is a public university, public technical university in the Netherlands, situated in Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its Bachelor of Science, BS ...

, known for his development of the process modelling tool ExSpecT, and his seminal work on

workflow management Workflow is a generic term for orchestrated and repeatable patterns of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a sequen ...

Biography

Van Hee studied

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and

Informatics Informatics is the study of computational systems. According to the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe, informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which the centra ...

, where in 1978 he received his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "Bayesian control of Markov chains", under supervision of

Jaap Wessels Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels (19 January 1939 – 30 July 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Jo van Nunen and Jaap van der Wal. "Jaap Wessels–his life with stocha ...

and Fred W. Steutel.AI Genealogy Project :: Kees van Hee
. Accessed 18 September 2013. From 1985 to 2011, Van Hee was Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty for Mathematics and Informatics,

. He supervised 20 doctoral students, among them Jan L.G. Dietz (1987) and

Wil van der Aalst Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. His research and teaching interests include inf ...

(1992). He was also research fellow of the

Econometric Institute Econometric Institute (Dutch ''Econometrisch Instituut'') at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is a leading research institute in the fields of econometrics and management science in the Netherlands. The Institute offers advanced education in econom ...

at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

. From 1994 to 2004, Van Hee was also a director at Bakkenist Management Consultants, and after it was incorporated by

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, at Deloitte. Throughout his career, much of his research, university teaching, and consultancy centered on

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, ...

, often with the aid of

Petri net A Petri net, also known as a place/transition net (PT net), is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. It is a class of discrete event dynamic system. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph t ...

-based modeling techniques. As Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology Van Hee had initiated an own investigation, asking among other

Andries Brouwer Andries Evert Brouwer (born 1951) is a Dutch mathematician and computer programmer, Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is known as the creator of the greatly expanded 1984 to 1985 versions of the roguelike compute ...

and

Gerard 't Hooft Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating t ...

for a second opinion, which led to the cancellation of the PhD graduation of Marcoen Cabbolet in 2008.M.J.T.F. Cabbolet
Scientific Misconduct: three forms that directly harm others as the modus operandi of Mill's tyranny of the prevailing opinion
Science and Engineering Ethics 20(1), 41-54 (2014) Afterwards a Committee for Scientific Integrity initially ruled that the Dean of the University and Deans of the Faculties had failed to apply the principle of

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in the process,ANP
TU/e mistaken in reevaluation dissertation
NRC, edition August 29, 2008 (in Dutch) but in the appeal case Van Hee and others were acquitted. In 2011 Van Hee was appointed Officer of the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau () is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has performed acts of special merits for ...

for his exceptional contributions to science and society.Lintje voor prof. Kees van Hee
at ''tue.nl'' nieuws 14 november 2011.

Publications

Books a selection: * 1978. ''Bayesian control of Markov chains''. Doctoral thesis Eindhoven University of Technology. Amsterdam : Mathematisch Centrum. * 1993. ''Systems engineering : a formal approach.'' Eindhoven : Eindhoven University of Technology. * 2004. ''Workflow management: models, methods, and systems''. With

. The MIT press, 2004.

References

External links

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