And yes, as this entry is tagged photo, I have one that I always wanted to publish:
This is the truth why we get paid in our "kindergarten for adults" - working in an office is quite dangerous!
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( 2.9 / 85 )After the exciting days now a bit back to work. Today I got a notification that two of my research papers have been accepted for the 9th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
The first paper explains the motivation of my thesis and has been named during my Amsterdam trip: Why do we actually need the Pi-Calculus for Business Process Management? At this time I thought no one would ever accept such a nonscientific title for a scientific paper. However, even at our research group I got quite good responses like: "Ok, let's assume I actually do need a formalism (which of course is very unlikely), then, after reading your paper, I would consider Pi-Calculus". Now that I have chapter one of my thesis published (to appear in some book of the Springer LNCS series soon) - the remainder of my thesis will straightforward ;-)
The second paper is based on a product line of my colleague Arnd and thereby directly related to the work I'm payed for (see PESOA). Together with him we investigated how to model variant-rich business process diagrams, i.e. business processes containing variants that can be fitted to customer needs. This paper is titled: Variability Mechanisms in E-Business Process Families.
Both papers will be presented only by myself at the conference in Klagenfurt (Austria), as my colleague is visiting a conference in Shanghai (China) this time around. Did I chose the right conference?
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( 3 / 73 )Today was one of the most exciting days in my life - my little daughter Lena was born! It was a very intensive experience being all the time with my wife and finally to see the birth right at sunrise.
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( 2.9 / 73 )I'd like to tell you from my third visit to Amsterdam. I was a speaker at a workshop on Dynamic Web Processes at the 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing evangelizing people to Pi-Calculus. Actually I talked about some vision named: Toward a Formal for Agile Service Discovery and Integration. Yes I have to confess: The slides contained formulas.
The city itself was a bit disappointing. Amsterdam in winter is way beyond what I remembered like it was in summer. Nevertheless, there was anything you would expect from this city ;-) We were even invited to the city hall, where someone very smart told us about how much Amsterdam has been waiting for a conference on service oriented computing.
The conference itself was quite disappointing. Paying 500 euros just to sit at uncomfortable chairs in a hotel conference room with only coffee delivered - I don't know why they didn't chosed one of the universities having real auditoriums. The conference itself is best described by: Italy and IBM. You either have to have an italien family name or work for IBM, best of all from India. Because I'm not related to any of that, I always felt a bit outside. Nevertheless, six guys from the HPI visiting this conference made it something like a school trip.
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( 2.9 / 94 )Today I finally updated my Mac mini to 1gig of RAM. Having initially denied to order 1gig as Apple was likely to take around 400 bucks, and unwilling to crack the housing open when the mini was brand-new, now the time has come:
The most scaring part was of course the removal of the housing - the plastic nipples make a strange cracking noise when pushing the putty knife inside!
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