Jan Vanthienen

Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen is a full professor from K.U.Leuven (http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/). He got the degree of Licentiaat-Doctorandus in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen en de Beleidsinformatica from K.U.Leuven in 1979 and got his PhD in Applied Economics from K.U.Leuven in 1986. He is currently working at the Faculty of Business and Economics (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/), department of Decision Sciences and Information Management (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/fac/admin/onderz/research_kbi.htm). He is a very active researcher in the information systems fields, such as business rule modeling, rule-based business processes, automation, E-business, business intelligence, knowledge based systems, V&V, decision tables, help desk & service automation. He is a founding member of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS, https://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/tew/academic/liris/general.htm) and was (co-)chairman of the European Conference on Validation and Verification of Knowledge-based Systems (EuroVaV). He is also co-founder and chairman of the Belgian Business Rules Forum (http://econweb3.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/brforum/).

Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen has received many international honors and awards. His paper “Specifying Process-Aware Access Control Rules in SBVR” got the best paper award at RuleML 2007 (http://2007.ruleml.org/), in Orlando, USA, 2007. His session on "How business rules (re)define business processes" received 5 nominations for the Top 3 Speakers at the Business Rules Forum (http://www.businessrulesforum.com/), Washington DC, 2007. The session “Specification, verification and implementation of business rules: some real-world examples” at the European Business Rules Conference (http://www.eurobizrules.org) was rated in the top three for both content (91%) and presentation (95%) in Zürich, 2002.His paper on “Proof running two state-of-the-art pattern recognition techniques in the field of direct marketing” in the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’2002, http://www.iceis.org/iceis2002/), got the best paper nomination.