Marlon Gerardo Dumas Menjivar (born 22 August 1975) is a Honduran

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, and Professor of Software Engineering at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

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, known for his contributions in the field of

Business Process Management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...

. Born in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

, Dumas received his PhD in Computer Science at the

University of Grenoble The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...

in France in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was Lecturer at the

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in Brisbane, Australia. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Software Engineering at the

. In 2004 and 2007 Dumas was awarded the Queensland Government Fellowship to "undertake research on service-oriented software architectures in collaboration with SAP AG." Dumas is married to an

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, whom he has a daughter with.

Publications

Dumas authored and co-authored numerous publications in the field of computer science.List of Publications - Marlon Dumas
at math.ut.ee. Accessed September 18, 2013 Books: * Marlon Dumas, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Editors), ''Process-Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology'', John Wiley & Sons, September 2005. * Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers. ''Fundamentals of Business Process Management'', Springer, February 2013 Articles, a selection: * Zeng, L., Benatallah, B., Dumas, M., Kalagnanam, J., & Sheng, Q. Z. (2003, May)
Quality driven web services composition
In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 411–421). ACM. * Zeng, Liangzhao, et al.
QoS-aware middleware for web services composition
" Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 30.5 (2004): 311-327.

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Marlon Dumas
at University of Tartu {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumas, Marlon 1975 births Living people Honduran academics Honduran scientists Computer scientists Grenoble Alpes University alumni Queensland University of Technology faculty Academic staff of the University of Tartu Honduran expatriates in Estonia