Michael Adams

Michael Adams is a Researcher at the School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology. His work focuses on Business Process Management (BPM), Workflow Systems, and Cloud Computing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from QUT (2007), specializing in dynamic workflow adaptation. Adams is a core contributor to the YAWL open-source workflow management system, which he has advanced through research on scalability, blockchain integration, and cloud deployment. His research spans over two decades, with notable contributions to workflow exception handling, robotic process automation (RPA), and federated architectures for distributed systems. He has collaborated internationally, publishing in top journals like Knowledge and Information Systems and Computers in Industry. His recent work explores blockchain applications in publishing and healthcare, emphasizing practical solutions for industry challenges. Adams has co-edited influential books on BPM automation and contributed to standards for process mining and organizational modeling.