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Business Process Management (BPM) 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. However, with current tools, the management of
business processes has a limited degree of automation, and is heavily
impeded by the heterogeneity of the legacy systems implementing those
processes. Additionally, current representations of processes are not
accessible to machine reasoning, and therefore the process space
cannot be queried by logical expressions, e.g. in order to identify
activities relevant to comply with regulations.
SUPER aims
to develop a technological platform to support the management of
business processes in a scalable and semantically interoperable
manner. SUPER will combine Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology with
Business Process Management to provide a consolidated framework for
the coherent manipulation of processes, through the automated
discovery, substitution, composition and execution of business process
implementations. SUPER will demonstrate the effective deployment of
SWS in realistic, large-volume applications in the telecommunication
industry. The project will deliver:
- horizontal ontologies to describe business processes.
- vertical telecommunications oriented ontologies to support domain specific annotation, and
- a suite of tools based on the results of the SEKT and DIP projects.
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SAP AG
eTel
IBIS Prof. Thome AG
IBM Research
IDS Scheer
Isoco
Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck
MIP – Politecnico di Milano
National University of Ireland, Galway
Nexcom
NIWA
Ontotext Lab, Sirma
Open University
Telefonica
The Poznan University of Economics
TU Eindhoven
University of Stuttgart
Telekomunikacja Polska
CEFRIEL |
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SUPER Website
IRS-III
DIP Website
WSMO Website
The SUPER team at KMi
John Domingue
Liliana Cabral
Pierre Grenon
Barry Norton
Carlos Pedrinaci |
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