Veronica Gacitua Decar

PhD Researcher at DCU, Ireland.

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Group Members

• Claus Pahl [leader]
• Mark Melia
• Kosala Yapa Bandara
• Wang Ming Xue (Wong)
• Muhammad Javed
• Aakash Abassi
• Yalemisew Mintesinot Abgaz


• Ronan Barret (former)
• Edmond Holohan (former)

MSE Projects

• ProGen
• SPPM

Research

[Publications] - [Academic Activities] - [MSE Projects]

Publications

• V. Gacitua-Decar. PhD Thesis.
  Graph-based Pattern Matching and Discovery for Process-centric
  Service Architecture Design and Integration. 2010. [.rar]


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Automatic Business Process Pattern Matching for Enterprise Services Design.
  IEEE SCC - Services II - Cloud II @ SOPOSE. 2009 [pdf] [www].


• J.P. Garcia-Gonzalez, V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Service Registry: A Key Piece to Enhance Reuse in SOA.
  The Architecture Journal, Vol. 21. MSDN, Microsoft. 2009.


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Ontology-based Patterns for the Integration of Business Processes and Enterprise Application Architectures. [pdf]
  G. Mentzas et al. (Eds). Semantic Enterprise Application Integration for Business Processes: Service-Oriented Frameworks. IGI Pub. 2009. (go to)


• C. Pahl and Y. Zhu and V. Gacitua-Decar.
  A Template-driven Approach for Maintainable Service-oriented Information Systems Integration. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), 19(7):889-912. World Scientific Press. 2009.


• J.P. Garcia-Gonzalez, V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  A Service Architecture Solution for Mobile Enterprise Resources: A Case Study in the Banking Industry (extended version). Proceedings 3rd Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies.
  Birkhauser Verlag. 2009. (in press) [pdf] [www].


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Towards Reuse of Business Processes Patterns to Design Services (extended version). Proceedings 3rd Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technologies.
  Birkhauser Verlag. 2009. (in press) [pdf] [www].


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Towards Pattern-Based Service Identification.
  3rd Workshop on Emerging Web Services Technology.
  WEWST 2008 - Full paper. [pdf] [www].
  


• J.P. Garcia-Gonzalez and V. Gacitua-Decar.
  A Service-Centric Architecture for Extending Centralised Enterprise Resources to Mobile Platforms: A Case Study in the Banking Industry.
  6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services.
  ECOWS 2008 - Business Track paper. [pdf] [www].


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Service Architecture Design for E-Businesses: A Pattern Based Approach.
  9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies.
  Springer-Verlag, LNCS Series.
  EC-Web 2008 - Invited paper. [pdf] [www].
  


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Business Model Driven Design of Service Architectures for Enterprise Applications Integration: A Pattern Based Approach.
  3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies.
  ICSOFT 2008 - Doctoral consortium paper [pdf].


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Pattern-Based Business-Driven Analysis and Design of Service Architectures.
  3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies.
  ICSOFT 2008 - Position paper [pdf].


• V. Gacitua-Decar and C. Pahl.
  Business model driven Service Architecture Design for Enterprise Application Integration.
  International Conference on Business Innovation and Information Technology.
  ICBIIT 2008 - Full paper [pdf] [www].
  


• V. Gacitua and C. Pahl.
  Business Process-driven Service Architecture Reuse.
  In: G. Alonso and J. Koehler (Editors).
  ERCIM News - Special Theme: Service Computing. No. 70.
  2007.
  

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Academic Activities

• Attendded New Frontiers in Computing & Granular Computing (NFIC & GrC 2010), San Jose, CA, USA. Aug-2010.
• Summer School on Semantic Computing (SSSC2010), Berkeley, CA, USA. Jul-2010.
• 3rd Lero Doctoral Symposium. Examiners: Dr. Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University; Dr. David Bustard, University of Ulster; Dr. Jeff Magee, Imperial College London. Nov-2009.
• 2nd Lero Writers' Retreat. Retreat facilitated by Dr. David Alan Grier. Oct-2009.
  
• 9th School on Formal Methods (Web Services), SFM:WS'09 . Jun-2009.
  
• Graph-Based Mining of Digital Content, CNGL and IBM. Jan-2009.
• [Transfer Report]
  Transfer Report document, 2008. [pdf]
  
• [Book Reviewer]
  Thomas Erl, SOA Design Patterns. Prentice Hall. 2008.
  
• [Conference Paper Reviewer]
  2nd European Conference on Software Architecture. ECSA 2008.
• [Conference Paper Reviewer]
  2nd Annual IEEE Student Paper Conference. AISPC 2008.
• [Conference Local Chair]
  6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services. ECOWS 2008.

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MSE Projects Proposals

The Graph-based Process Model Generator (ProGen)

Business process models are the starting point to develop many service centric solutions. The analysis of such a process models is a fundamental step during the definition of the scope and granularity of services. Many recent techniques to analyse process models have been evaluated based on specific and often non-public set of process models. Public and referential data for benchmarking do not exist yet. The aim of this project is to provide a tool to generate synthetic -while realistic- data representing graph-based process models*. Generated data with this tool will be an initial attempt to make available a public database for benchmarking of previous and forthcoming graph-based process analysis techniques. This project is connected to ongoing research in the group (Definition of services based on graph pattern matching techniques).

References
M. Golani, S. Pinter, (2003) Generating a Process Model from a Process Audit Log. Springer LNCS Vol. 2678, p.136-151. [Section 4] [Go to]
* Note that graph-based process models in this case exclude process executions data (logs).

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Semantic Process Pattern Matching (SPPM)

The objective of process pattern matching is to identify the occurrences of process pattern elements and their relations in business process models. Process models and patterns can be represented as graphs whose vertices have labels and types. Labels and types can be related to a controlled vocabulary in a specific business domain (e.g. financial industry, healthcare sector, mining industry, telecommunication industry, among many others). The aim of this project is to complement an existing graph matching algorithm with semantic matching. The project includes the enrichment of the existing graph matching algorithm and the definition of a case study in a selected business domain. This considers its related controlled vocabulary. This project is connected to ongoing research in the group (Definition of services based on graph pattern matching techniques).

References
M. Ehrig, A. Koschmider, A. Oberweis, (2007) Measuring Similarity between Semantic Business Process Models, In Proc. Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM'07), Australia, CRPIT, 67. Roddick, J. F. and Hinze, A., Eds. ACS. 71-80. [Go to]
B. van Dongen, R. Dijkman, J. Mendling, (2008) Measuring Similarity between Business Process Models, Springer LNCS Vol.5074, p.450-464. [Go to]
A. Awad, A. Polyvyanyy, M. Weske, (2008) Semantic Querying of Business Process Models, (2008) In Proc. 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), p.85-94. [Go to]

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pattern , pattern matching , business process pattern , reuse , service oriented architecture , service design

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