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Pnina Soffer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their work focuses extensively on the intersection of business and computer science, particularly in the domains of business process modeling, data quality, and information systems.

The main fields of study for Soffer include Business, Management and Accounting, Computer Science, and Decision Sciences. Their work spans several subfields such as Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Key research topics addressed by Soffer cover Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Data Quality and Management, Semantic Web and Ontologies, ERP Systems Implementation and Impact, and Data Visualization and Analytics.

Notable recent publications authored by Soffer include:

  • "Why Work Around the Process? Analyzing Workarounds Through the Lens of the Theory of Planned Behavior" (2023), published in Business & Information Systems Engineering

Other relevant publications in the broader network of their research community involve works such as:

  • "Process-Data Quality: The True Frontier of Process Mining" (2023), Journal of Data and Information Quality
  • "Detecting cross-case associations in an event log: toward a pattern-based detection" (2023), Software & Systems Modeling
  • "How well did it recover? Impact-aware conformance checking" (2020), Computing
  • "Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities" (2024), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Soffer collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Barbara Weber, Irit Hadar, Arava Tsoury, Gal Engelberg, and Iris Reinhartz-Berger.

Their research has been published in various scholarly venues, with repeated contributions to Software & Systems Modeling, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Information Systems, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the Journal of Data and Information Quality.

In addition to journal articles, Soffer has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including "Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops" (2023) and "Process Mining Workshops" (2024).

Best Publications

  • Process Mining Manifesto

    Wil van der Aalst;Wil van der Aalst;Arya Adriansyah;Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros;Franco Arcieri

  • ERP modeling: a comprehensive approach

    Pnina Soffer;Boaz Golany;Dov Dori

  • Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

    Terry Halpin;Selmin Nurcan;John Krogstie;Pnina Soffer

  • Declarative versus imperative process modeling languages : the issue of understandability

    Dirk Fahland;Daniel Lübke;Jan Mendling;Hajo A. Reijers

  • On the notion of soft‐goals in business process modeling

    Pnina Soffer;Yair Wand

  • Taxonomy of Flexibility in Business Processes.

    Gil Regev;Pnina Soffer;Rainer Schmidt

  • Improving business process decision making based on past experience

    Johny Ghattas;Pnina Soffer;Mor Peleg

  • The role of domain knowledge in requirements elicitation via interviews: an exploratory study

    Irit Hadar;Pnina Soffer;Keren Kenzi

  • Modelling Off-the-Shelf Information Systems Requirements: An Ontological Approach

    Pnina Soffer;Boaz Golany;Dov Dori;Yair Wand

  • Variations in Conceptual Modeling: Classification and Ontological Analysis

    Irit Hadar;Pnina Soffer

  • Aligning an ERP system with enterprise requirements: An object-process based approach

    Pnina Soffer;Boaz Golany;Dov Dori

  • Goal-Driven Analysis of Process Model Validity

    Pnina Soffer;Yair Wand;Yair Wand

  • Styles in business process modeling: an exploration and a model

    Jakob Pinggera;Pnina Soffer;Dirk Fahland;Matthias Weidlich

  • Understanding Declare models: strategies, pitfalls, empirical results

    Cornelia Haisjackl;Irene Barba;Stefan Zugal;Pnina Soffer

  • Assessment of a personalized and distributed patient guidance system

    Mor Peleg;Yuval Shahar;Silvana Quaglini;Tom Broens

  • Information Systems Evolution

    Pnina Soffer;Erik Proper

  • Goal-Driven Multi-Process Analysis.

    Pnina Soffer;Yair Wand

  • Investigating expressiveness and understandability of hierarchy in declarative business process models

    Stefan Zugal;Pnina Soffer;Cornelia Haisjackl;Jakob Pinggera

  • Applying ontology-based rules to conceptual modeling: a reflection on modeling decision making

    Pnina Soffer;Irit Hadar

  • Extending the Adaptability of Reference Models

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger;Pnina Soffer;Arnon Sturm

  • Learning from Context to Improve Business Processes

    Karsten Ploesser;Mor Peleg;Pnina Soffer;Michael Rosemann

  • Using Eye Tracking to Expose Cognitive Processes in Understanding Conceptual Models

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  • From event streams to process models and back: Challenges and opportunities

    Pnina Soffer;Annika Hinze;Agnes Koschmider;Holger Ziekow

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Weber
Barbara Weber University of St. Gallen
Mor Peleg
Mor Peleg University of Haifa
Yair Wand
Yair Wand University of British Columbia
John Krogstie
John Krogstie Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jan Mendling
Jan Mendling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dirk Fahland
Dirk Fahland Eindhoven University of Technology
Matthias Weidlich
Matthias Weidlich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Manfred Reichert
Manfred Reichert University of Ulm
Marcello La Rosa
Marcello La Rosa University of Melbourne
Henderik A. Proper
Henderik A. Proper Association for Computing Machinery

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