Experience:

• Standards, advanced development, and research in modeling and ontologies for process, composite objects, and systems.
  
• Government research in knowledge systems and languages.
  
• Manager and architect for process and object-oriented development tools.
  
• Senior product and applications engineer.
  

Trained at Stanford, Mr. Bock began his career developing parts of a best-of-breed expert system shell, and applying it to the domains of gene-splicing, nuclear power, and truck configuration. While one of these applications was spun off in a separate company, he participated in government research in knowledge systems, inventing new techniques and languages that were later included in commercial products. Based on these products, he led a group producing a tool for a major process and object-oriented method. This attracted investment from SAP, and he joined methodologists from SAP and Microsoft in developing unified business process models.

Mr. Bock is at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division as:

• Project leader for ontology development, focusing on representation of processes and composite objects, and facilitating the capture of implicit knowledge. His work leverages the Process Specification Language (PSL), a first-order axiomitization of processes supporting automated consistency checking of rules against processes, as well as RDF/S and OWL.

• One of the primary contributors to the Unified Modeling Language at the Object Management Group. He is workgroup lead for process models in UML 2, for driving business process and enterprise integration systems. He is also the workgroup lead for UML 2/UML 1.5 actions, for modeling the coded parts of a system, and enabling UML to completely describe an executable system and support retargetable compilation (MDA).

• Contributor to the systems engineering extension to UML (SysML), for requirements-based design of hardware, software, and human systems. He is responsible for the process modeling extension, and contributes the requirements and allocation models.

• One of the primary contributors to the Business Process Definition Metamodel at the Object Management Group (BPDM), the first enterprise process model with an integrated and modeler-extensible execution semantics, compatible with the Process Specification Language (PSL). He was responsible for developing the semantic framework, and writing the model element specifications.

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