Hosting the 18th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Objects Computing Conference (EDOC’14) in Ulm, the Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) is delighted to have won three well renowned researchers for the conference’s keynotes. Managed by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert as the General Chair, this year’s main theme of the prestigious EDOC conference is "Utilizing Big Data for the Enterprise of the Future".

Prof. Dr. Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology) will initially introduce the audience to the conference’s main theme through his keynote on "Process Mining as the Superglue Between Data Science and Enterprise Computing". As one of the most cited computer scientists in the world, Prof. van der Aalst is recognized as a mastermind in the research field of Business Process Management. In particular, he is well known for long-lasting and profound research in the areas of Petri Nets, Workflow Management and Process Mining.

On Thursday, 4 September 2014, Dr. Heiko Ludwig (IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose, USA) will convey important practical insights to the conference participants through his keynote on "Managing Big Data Effectively - A Cloud Provider and a Cloud Consumer Perspective“. Dr. Ludwig is heading the Cloud Management Services team in IBM’s Computing-as-a-Service organization. While he has been doing research in the field of Service Management for a long time, he especially focuses on service and storage management at the moment.

Rounding off the conference on Friday, 5 September 2014, Prof. Dr. Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck) will present her keynote "Investigating the Process of Process Modeling: Towards an in-depth understanding of how process models are created" to the audience. Leading the Business Process Management Research Cluster in Innsbruck, she has been carrying out long-term research on empirical methods to gain in-depth understanding of how business processes can be effectively supported.

The speakers’ résumés as well as the keynote abstracts may be found on the corresponding EDOC’14 website.