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Prof. Dr. Wilfried Lemahieu

 

Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS)

 

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management

Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
 

Office: 03.109

Phone: +32 (0)16 32 68 70

Fax: +32 (0)16 32 67 32

Email: wilfried.lemahieu@econ.kuleuven.be

Web: www.econ.kuleuven.be/wilfried.lemahieu/public

Teaching

  • D0H17 Grondslagen van de Beleidsinformatica (HIR)

  • D0T06 Grondslagen van de Beleidsinformatica (TEW)

  • D0I62 Principles of Database Management (in English)

  • D0I72 Geavanceerd databasemanagement & content management

  • I0D42 Database Management (Msc Bioinformatics program, in English)

(All courses are in Dutch, unless noted otherwise)

 

All online course material is accessible through Toledo

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Research

Research interests:

  • Service orientation, webservices and Business Process Management
  • Data integration and database management
  • Hypermedia modeling and navigation

Research Projects:

Some key publications by topic (for a more detailed publication list, click here):

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  • Web services, event based coordination and process modeling (see also the BECO site at beco.econ.kuleuven.be):

G. Monsieur, M. Snoeck and W. Lemahieu, A pattern language for service input data provisioning, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) (2010) (pdf)

M. De Backer, M. Snoeck M, G. Monsieur, W. Lemahieu and G. Dedene, A scenario-based verification technique to assess the compatibility of collaborative business processes, Data & knowledge engineering 68(6) (2009)

R. Haesen, S. Goedertier, K. Van de Cappelle, W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck and S. Poelmans, A Phased Deployment of a Workflow Infrastructure in the Enterprise Architecture, Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 4928, pp. 268 - 278 (2008)

R. Haesen, M. Snoeck, W. Lemahieu and S. Poelmans, On the Definition of Service Granularity and its Architectural Impact, Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 5074, pp. 375 - 389 (2008)

G. Monsieur, M. Snoeck and W. Lemahieu, Coordinated Web Services Orchestration, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), Salt Lake City, USA (2007) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck, F. Goethals, M. De Backer, R. Haesen, G. Dedene and J. Vandenbulcke, Coordinating COTS applications via a Business Event layer, IEEE Software 22(4) (2005) (pdf)

M. Snoeck, W. Lemahieu, F. Goethals, G. Dedene, J. Vandenbulcke, Events as atomic contracts for application integration, Data & Knowledge Engineering 51(1) (2004) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck, C. Michiels, F. Goethals, G. Dedene and J. Vandenbulcke, Event Based Web Service Description and Coordination, Proceedings of the “Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web” Workshop of the CaiSE’03 Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3095 (2003) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck en C. Michiels, An Enterprise Layer Based Approach to Application Service Integration, Business Process Management Journal 9(6), Special issue on "Process Outsourcing & Application Service Providers" (2003) (pdf)

  • Extended enterprise infrastructures:

F. Goethals, W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck and J. Vandenbulcke, The data building blocks of the enterprise architect, Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on 'Information Engineering and Enterprise Architecture in Distributed Computing Environments', pp. 269 - 274 (2007)

F. Goethals, M. Snoeck, W. Lemahieu and J. Vandenbulcke, Management and Enterprise Architecture Click, Special issue of Information Systems Frontiers on Enterprise Architecture, Vol. 8, pp. 67-79 (2006)

F. Goethals, M. De Backer, W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck and J. Vandenbulcke, Identifying Dependencies in Business Processes, Proceedings of the LAP-CCBP (Communication and Coordination in Business Processes) workshop, Kiruna, Sweden, pp. 17-31 (2005)

F. Goethals, J. Vandenbulcke, W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck and B. Cumps, Two Basic Types of Business-to-Business integration, International Journal of E-Business Research, 1(1), pp. 1-15 (2005)

F. Goethals, J. Vandenbulcke, W. Lemahieu, M. Snoeck, Setting up extended enterprises: A data aspects framework, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB), Hong-Kong, China (2005)

F. Goethals, J. Vandenbulcke, W. Lemahieu and M. Snoeck, Structuring the development of inter-organizational systems, Proceedings of the Web Information Systems Engineering conference (WISE), Brisbane, Australia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3306, pp. 454-465 (2004)

  • Hypermedia modeling and navigation (MESH):

W. Lemahieu, Encapsulation and information hiding as the keys to enhanced hypermedia development and maintenance, Data & Knowledge Engineering 46(1), pp. 65-96 (2003) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, Context-based navigation in the Web by means of dynamically generated guided tours, Computer Networks 39(3), pp. 311-328 (2002) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, MESH: A Model-Based Approach to Hypermedia Design, in: Chen, Q. (ed.) Human-computer interaction: Issues and challenges, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 167-184, ISBN 1-878289-91-8 (2001) (pdf)

W. Lemahieu, Improved navigation and maintainance through and object-oriented approach to hypermedia modeling, Doctoral dissertation, K.U.Leuven, Dept. of Applied Economics, Leuven (1999) (pdf)

  • Database systems:

J. Vandenbulcke and W. Lemahieu, Databasesystemen voor de praktijk, 8th edition, SDU Uitgevers, Den Haag, 662 pp., ISBN 90-12-10799-7 (2005)

J. Vandenbulcke and W. Lemahieu, Databasesystemen voor de praktijk, 7th edition, tenHagenStam, Den Haag, 560 pp., ISBN 90-440-0147-7 (2001)

PhD Committees:

  • Geert Monsieur, 2010, KULeuven: Integration and coordination of business processes and their supporting information system components (promotor)
  • Raf Haesen, 2009, KULeuven: Designing service-oriented information systems architectures (co-promotor)
  • Lotte De Rore, 2009, KULeuven: Measuring productivity and improving efficiency in software development environments
  • Frederik Gailly, 2008, UGent: Operationalization of Business Ontologies: Representation, Formalization and Application
  • Stijn Goedertier, 2008, KULeuven: Declarative techniques for modeling and mining business processes
  • Manu De Backer, 2007, KULeuven: The use of Petri net theory for business process verification
  • Frank Goethals, 2006, KULeuven: Classifying and assessing extended enterprise integration approaches
  • Birgit Hay, 2003, UHasselt: Sequence Aligment Methods in Web Usage Mining

Brief resume

Education
  • Commercial Engineer in Management Informatics - K.U.Leuven (1993)
  • Doctor in Applied Economics – K.U.Leuven (1999)

Academic career at K.U.Leuven

  • Research assistant (1993-1999)
  • Post-doctoral researcher (1999-2002)
  • Associate professor (docent) (2002-2005)
  • Associate professor (hoofddocent) (2005-2009)
  • Professor (hoogleraar) (2009-present)

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