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Description |
Business Process Management focuses on managing the execution of IT-supported business
operations from a business expert's process view rather than from a technical perspective.
The underlying motivation for BPM is that organizations need to continuously align
their running business processes, as executed within multiple heterogeneous systems,
with the required processes as derived from business needs. BPM has gained significant
attention in both research and industry, and a range of BPM tools are available.
However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is currently very limited. The major obstacle
preventing a coherent view on business processes is that the business processes are
not accessible to machine reasoning. Additionally, businesses cannot query their process
space by logical expressions, e.g. in order to identify activities relevant to comply
with regulations.
Founded on ontologies Semantic Web technology provides scalable methods and tools
for the machine-readable representation of knowledge. Semantic Web Services (SWS)
make use of Semantic Web technology to support the automated discovery, substitution,
composition, and execution of software components (Web Services). BPM is a natural
application for Semantic Web and SWS technology, because the latter provide large-scale,
standardized knowledge representation techniques for executable artefacts. The goal
of the project is to combine Semantic Web services and Business Process Management,
and develop one consolidated technology.
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