Research Group:

• TICSw-Tecnologías de Información y Construcción de Software

Interests and Research lines:

My research topics are framed in the following two reserch lines:

1. IT-based Business Activities Automation
My main research topic is on software approaches for business controlling and improving with particular emphasis in the following areas:

• Monitoring and measuring
• Domain-specific Languajes(DSL)
• Simulation enviroments for IT decision-making
• Model-driven engineering MDE)
• Software product lines (SPL)
• Integration architectures
• Workflow management systems (WFMS)

2. Gestión y Gobierno de TI
My main research topic is process measuring and decision-making support with particular emphasis in the following areas:

• IT Governance
• IT Service Management
• IT Value Delivery
• Risk Management
• Enterprise architectures

Oscar González. Monitoring and Analysis of Workflow Applications: A Domain-specific Language Approach. 10th September 2010. Bogotá, Colombia – Brussels, Belgium.(phdthesis_oscargonzalez_sept2010.pdf)

Abstract

With constant changes as a main force, companies have to be organizations that are extremely flexible. To support this flexibility, they tend to organize themselves around (partially automated) business processes. This facilitates the integration of all their human and technological resources and manages the flow and control between them. In this vision it is extremely important to install a Monitoring activity which gives organizations the opportunity to focus on process improvement and quality assurance. Even though several business-process monitoring solutions are already available, these approaches are typically implemented with low-level mechanisms. These mechanisms require specific knowledge about the process implementation that business experts do not necessarily have. Furthermore, even for users with technical skills the implementation of monitoring requirements remains a tedious and complex task. This is mainly because the monitoring statements crosscut the executable specifications and involve information that is not necessarily available in one specific location.

The main goal of this research is the definition of a high-level domain-specific language for expressing monitoring, measurement and control specifications on business processes. The language is targeted at experts that need to assess the quality of a business process. Therefore we provide specialized abstractions at the domain level instead of at the code level. Among others it contains constructs for gathering basic real time and historic process measurements, for creating new high-quality concepts, and for applying control actions over the process domain and monitoring domain. Eventually the goal is to support domain experts in the creation of monitoring requirements without having to know the specifics of the underlying implementation.

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Promoters:

Appendixes

• Workshop for Evaluating the Expressiveness of MonitA
• Questionnaire for Evaluating MonitA Success Factors
• Additional MonitA Requirements for the Workflow Scenarios

Paradigma Journal

	In June of 2007 was created the journal in software construction called PARADIGMA. This journal seeks to support the research group, increasing its recognition at national and international community. In the other hand, we are looking for establish a solid doctoral program with scientific bases and research lines well defined. I am part of the creator committee of the Paradigma journal.

Development in Animation and Video Games (D.A.V.I.D) 2012-2015

I am involved as researcher and manager in the following two projects: (1) Software support for production processes, and (2) Analysis and design of business processes. These projects are framed in program “Programa estratégico de investigación y desarrollo para el sector animación y videojuegos”. This project is developed in agreement with Universidad de los Andes – 4 Animation and videogames enterprises – Colciencias (Bogotá, Colombia).

Consultancy Projects

Testing in a Global Software Development Context

Caramelos Research Project

 Education

Academic experience

Non-academic experience

Certifications or professional registrations

• Colombia, Professional Card
• ITIL V3 Foundation. Issued by EXIN

Current membership in professional organizations

• Miembro del grupo de investigación TICSW (Tecnologías de Información y Construcción de Software) – categoría A (Colciencias 2014).
• Investigador Asociado (Colciencias).

Honors and awards

• Doctor en Ciencias graduado con la más alta distinción (Greatest Disctintion) en la Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruselas, Bélgica.

Service activities (within and outside of the institutions)

• Consulting on Enterprise Architecture – Cooperativa de Educadores de Boyacá
• Consulting on IT Governance – Unidad Nacional de Gestión del Riego de Desastres
• Training on IT Governance – MinTIC

List of the most important publications and presentations from the past five years

12. Ochoa L, Alves J, Gonzalez O, Castro H, Gunter S. (2017) A survey on scalability and performance concerns in extended product lines configuration. International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems pp. 5-12. ACM Digital Library
13. Gonzalez O, Lopez L, Correal D. (2017) Multilevel complexity measurement in enterprise architecture models. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, pp. 1-21.
14. Ochoa L, Gonzalez O. (2017) Program Synthesis for Configuring Collaborative Solutions in Feature Models. LNCS 10034 (-), pp. 98-108.
15. Gonzalez O, Correal D, Camargo M. (2016) ICT capabilities for supporting collaborative work on business processes within the digital content industry. Comp. Ind. 80 (), pp. 16-29.
16. Gonzalez O, Ochoa L, Molina G. (2016) Information security governance: valuation of dependencies between IT solution architectures. LNBIP 261 (0), pp. 220-223.
17. Gonzalez O, Pedraza-Garcia, Correal D, Beltrán G. (2016) MONO+KM: Knowledge management in collaborative project development. Ingenieria y Universidad (ISSN 0123-2126) 20 (2), pp. 359-393.
18. Correal D, Gonzalez O, Camargo M, Pedraza-Garcia. (2016) MONO: A Computer-Supported Cooperative Tool for Digital Content Software Projects. 2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Estados Unidos.
19. Gonzalez O, Beltrán G, Correal D. (2016) Measurement of current and potential non-financial business value delivery of IT investments. Information 19 (7(B)), pp. 2869-2874.
20. Ochoa L, Gonzalez O, Verano M, Castro H. (2016) Searching for optimal configurations within large-scale models: A cloud computing domain. 9975 LNCS (-), pp. 65-75.
21. Gonzalez O, Lesmes S. (2016) Value at risk within business processes: An automated it risk governance approach. LNCS 9850 (NA), pp. 365-380.

List the most recent professional development activities

• Conferencista en eventos de divulgación científica

Percentage of time available for research or scholarly activities

Teaching 50%, Research 25% and Curricular Committee 25%.

Percentage of time committed to the program

100% (Full Time)