Seminar Course on
Process Aware Information Systems

Topic: Workflow Management Systems

Course Number: CSCI 7000-001

Semester: Fall, 2006

Time: Wed/Fri, 2:00pm-3:15pm

Place: ECCS-122

Instructor:

Professor Clarence (Skip) Ellis
Office - ECOT 747
Phone - 303-492-5984 (with answering machine)
Email - Skip@colorado.edu
Fax - 303-492-2844
Office hours – TBD

Course Description:
Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) facilitate the design, execution, and coordination of structured work processes by groups of people. PAIS systems include workflow systems, software engineering systems, and B2B network systems. This course will explore the PAIS domain via lectures, discussions, projects, and exercises. The text for the course is a newly published book of articles entitled “Process-Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software through Process Technology.” The first half of the course will introduce the theory, concepts and technology of PAIS via lectures and exercises. The second portion of the course will require each student to do a research project or paper within the PAIS domain.

Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of computer systems and software. Interest and ability to read the literature, and explore interdisciplinary research.

Instructors Biography:
Dr. Clarence (Skip) Ellis has worked in the area of process systems and computer-supported cooperative work over the past 30 years. He has pioneered many of the concepts, models, journals, and products in this and related fields. He has worked as a computer scientist and engineer at MCC, Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, IBM, and Los Alamos Scientific Labs. His academic experience includes teaching at MIT, the University of Texas, Stanford University, Johannes Kepler Institute in Austria, and Chiaotung University in Taiwan.