Biography
Haluk Demirkan
Arizona State University
Haluk Demirkan is an assistant professor in the Department of Information
Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His research
interests include business intelligence topics such as information logistics,
analytics, business engineering and project management. His recent focus is on
BI project pattern representations using ontologies. That work is being
conducted in conjunction with research grants from American Express and Intel.
This work has resulted in what has come to be known as the "ASU Services
Ecosystem," a prototype ontology-structured environment and the "DISCO!" process
model for managing and orchestrating business services, business workflows, and
workflow choreographies on virtualized resources. Haluk has presented his
research in a number of academic/industry journals and conferences, such as Inf.
Systems and e-Business Management, Information Systems Frontiers, the
Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, AMCIS, HICSS and DSI.
He has more than ten years of professional experience in information
logistics and supply chain management, including roles as a software process
engineer, project manager and technical principal consultant with
AT&T/Citibank Universal Card Services and MicroStrategy, Inc. He currently
provides management and technical advisory services to a number of Fortune 100
U.S. and international firms in a variety of industries on how to maximize the
return on the companies' resources.