Dr. Niko Kleiner

Former member of the department of programming methodology and compiler construction.
Since December 2004 working for DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology.

e-mail: Öffnet ein Fenster zum Versenden einer E-Mailniko.kleiner (at) web.de

Academic Curriculum Vitae

January 2005 Ph.D. in computer science (Dr. rer. nat.)
since December 2004 Staff member of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Berlin
1999-2004 Scientific research assistant at University of Ulm
Guest researcher at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Ulm
June 1999 Diploma in computer science (Dipl.-Inf.)
1994-1999 Student of computer science at University of Ulm
From 1997-1998 student of applied mathematics at San Diego State University, USA

Research

In general, I'm interested in topics related to business process management and software engineering. The last years I have focused on some specific aspects:

  • workflow design
  • process mining
  • empirical software engineering
  • requirements engineering

My current research interest is workflow design support, in particular delta-analysis with workflow-logs: The introduction of new business processes is nowadays supported by an information system which helps to drive the new process by steering people through it. A workflow-log contains event-data that was logged by such a system about activities that were executed with it. This data can be used to partly compare actual work practice with a model of the prescribed business process. See also my list of publications for recent results.

Journal Publications

  • Niko Kleiner
    Delta Analysis with Workflow Logs: Aligning Business Process Prescriptions and their Reality
    Requirements Engineering Journal: Special Issue on Coordinated Development of Business Processes and their Support Systems, pages 212-222, volume 10, issue 3, November 2005
  • Markus Hammori, Joachim Herbst, Niko Kleiner
    Interactive Workflow Mining: Requirements, Concepts and Implementation
    Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal: Special Issue on Business Process Management, pages 41-63, volume 56, issue 1, January 2006

Theses

  • Niko Kleiner
    Verbesserungsstrategien für den Workflow-Designprozess
    Dissertation, University of Ulm, August 2004
  • Niko Kleiner
    Formale Überlegungen zu pragmatischen Methoden des Requirements Engineering
    Diploma Thesis, University of Ulm, 1999

Invited Papers/Presentations

  • Niko Kleiner, Joachim Herbst
    A Model for Business Process Supporting Web Applications
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR2002s), pages 101-107, L'Aquila, Italy, July 2002
  • Niko Kleiner, Johannes Bumiller
    Distributed Software Development at DaimlerChrysler
    Presentation at the Software Experience Center (SEC), Distributed Development Session, Nokia Research, Helsinki, Finland, 2000

Refereed Conference Publications

  • Olga Jaufman, Axel Dold, Tobias Häberlein, Claudia Schlumpberger, Michael Stupperich, Niko Kleiner
    Requirements for Flexible Software Development Processes within Large and Long Taking Projects
    Proceedings of the 5th Meeting for Quality in Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC'04), Porto, Portugal, October 2004
  • Niko Kleiner
    Supporting Usage-Centered Workflow Design: Why and How?
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'04), LNCS 3080, pages 227-243, Potsdam, Germany, June 2004
  • Markus Hammori, Joachim Herbst, Niko Kleiner
    Interactive Workflow Mining
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'04), LNCS 3080, pages 211-226, Potsdam, Germany, June 2004
  • Niko Kleiner
    Can Business Process Changes be Cheaper Implemented with Workflow Management Systems?
    Proceedings of the 2004 Information Resources Management Association Conference (IRMA'04), pages 529-532, New Orleans, USA, May 2004
  • Niko Kleiner
    The Focus of Requirements Engineering in Workflow Application Development
    Workshop Proceedings (Requirements Engineering for Business Process Support - REBPS'03) of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'03), pages 372-377, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 2003
  • Joachim Herbst, Niko Kleiner
    Workflow Mining: A Case Study from Automotive Industry
    Proceedings of the 10th European Concurrent Engineering Conference (ECEC'03), Plymouth, UK, April 2003
  • Niko Kleiner, Joachim Herbst
    Engineering a DMU-Resultmanagement System
    Proceedings of the 9th European Concurrent Engineering Conference (ECEC'02), pages 169-172, Modena, Italy, April 2002
  • Niko Kleiner, Stefan Sarstedt
    Einsatz von Standardprozessen bei der Gestaltung von Lehrveranstaltungen
    Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen (SEUH'01), pages 99-108, Zürich, Switzerland, 2001

Further Activities

  • Program committee member of IRMA (Information Resource Management Association Conference)
  • Reviewer for ECEC 2002 (European Concurrent Engineering Conference)
  • Reviewer for ESEC 2001 (European Software Engineering Conference)
  • Co-reviewer for ACM TOPLAS 2000 (Transactions on Programming Languages)
  • Reviewer for GROUP 1999 (International Conference on Supporting Group Work)
  • Fellow of Cusanuswerk