Conceptual results of the PICTURE consortium activities have been presented at several European and international conferences.
A preliminary version of the PICTURE prototype was presented in the exhibition area of eChallenges 2007 which was held in The Hague (Netherlands) on October 24-26, 2007. eChallenges 2007 had approximately 600 participants who had the possibility to visit the exhibition during all breaks (coffee and lunch). In addition to that a networking reception was held on the first evening in the exhibition area to give attendees the possibility to visit the exhibition booths. The PICTURE consortium made some interesting contacts and was able to disseminate project results.
IRIS 2007
In February 2007 ERCIS attended the 10th International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS2007) in Salzburg, Austria. ERCIS presented a paper titled “Aufbau eines verwaltungsübergreifenden Prozessregisters für öffentliche Verwaltungen mit der PICTURE-Methode” (Translation: Construction of an overall process catalogue for public administrations with PICTURE). The paper and the presentation dealt with the chances and challenges of a process catalogue for public administrations. Furthermore the paper describes the contribution PICTURE can deliver for an efficient construction of such a structuring process catalogue.
BPMGOV 2007
In September 2007 ERCIS attended the 1st International Workshop on Management of Business Processes in Government – collocated with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management in Brisbane, Australia. The presentation with about 70 attendants mainly from the Australian Government was entitled with “Local, Participative Process Modelling - The PICTURE-Approach.” It dealt on the one hand with the advantages, PICTURE serves in comparison to classical modelling approaches regarding the elements Direction of Modelling, Modelling Scope, Relevant Interaction Object, and Involvement of the Employees, and on the other hand with this specific view of knowledge acquisition in mind, PICTURE is compared with the workflow patterns of van der Aalst et al. in order to identify similarities and differences. Based on this analysis, suggestions for the further development of the PICTURE method are derived to create a new methodology which is compatible to established approaches.
The University of St. Gallen (IWI-HSG), responsible Swiss research partner for the development of the standardised Process Building Blocks, participated in two conferences in 2007.
The Sixth International EGOV Conference focusing on research and practice in the public sector took place from September, 3rd to 7th in Regensburg (Germany). IWI-HSG contributed a foundational analysis on applicability and usability of the building block-based modelling approach in the public sector from a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspective. After the authors’ presentation, the audience lively discussed about the described concept and reference modelling in general. These discussions confirmed that Process Building Blocks are a suitable approach to improve process modelling in public administrations.
Furthermore, IWI-HSG presented a publication entitled “Measuring Impacts of ICT on the Process Landscape of Public Administrations” at the Third International Conference on e-Government hosted by the University of Quebec in Montréal, Canada. At the conference the first results of the research that IWI-HSG and SAP contributed to the PICTURE methodology and tool for measuring qualitative and quantitative impacts of ICT on the process landscape of public administrations were discussed. The concept of using Process Building Blocks to enable an administration-wide analysis of processes was well received by the peers and the following discussion provided input for further advancements of the methodology.
On June 18-19, 2007 in Rochna near Łódź took place the XV Polish Conference on Electronic Data Interchange & Electronic Commerce. This conference was directed to the scientists and users of EDI-EC systems.
One of the conference sessions regarded the e-government applications problems. PICTURE overview and process oriented approach in Public Administration were presented.
Six papers were presented during this session:
These papers (among others) were included into the monograph Selected Problems in the Electronic Economy (ed. Marian Niedźwiedziński, Łódź 2007).
During this session the panel discussion dedicated to the possibilities and barriers of implementation of the new organizational and technical solutions to the Public Organizations took place. The main conclusions of the panel discussion are as follows: