Semantics Utilised for Process Management within and between Enterprises

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SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process Management within and between Enterprises)

This project is to get answers on two urgent issues from BPM.
- Process management transmission from IT specialist to business specialist
- Management of new complicated business process

Key objective of SUPER is to improve business process management from the level of IT specialist to the level of business specialist. The objective needs to approach to the semantic level of business specialist for BPM.




1. Project background
SUPER is targeted to create technical framework constituting BPM for machine to read the semantics using semantic web and semantic web service through materialization of common reference cases for BPM before adaptability period.
This project includes the following:
Automation of business process life cycle
Addition of designed layer to operate BPM for business specialist
Success story demonstration of SWS and SBPM with industrial advantages of application in telecommunication area

2. Project objectives
Scientific objectives
Design and evaluation of technical framework for SBPM
Acquirement of new general language to explain the process expression and issues of other process models and targeted objective system such as cost, dependability, restricted condition, flow of data, time limitation, etc.
Automatic footnote creation technology of existing components of already BP
Process query tool development
Correction of existing reasoner to meet with attributes of SUPER
Relaying process for automated connection of business and IT points of view
Construction of large scale test environment based on SWS

Technological objectives
Horizontal ontology design for footnotes of perfect BP and their parts
Construction of vertical ontology about selected materialized domain
Perfect list supporting all the steps of SBPM

3. Consortium
SAP AG
CEFRIEL
Etel
Hanival Internet Services GmbH
IBIS Prof. Thome AG
IBM Research GmbH
IDS Scheer
iSOCO-Intelligent Software Components S.A.
Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck
MIP
National University Ireland in Galway
Nexcom
Ontotext Lab, Sirma AI Corp
Open University
Saltlux Inc.
Telefonica
Telekomunikacja Polska
Poznan University of Economics
TU Eindhoven
University of Stuttgart

4. European Project SUPER
SUPER is the project supported by Information Society Technologies (IST) under European Union 6th Framework Programme.
SUPER is a member of European Semantic Systems Initiative (ESSI) in addition to the following projects.
1. Adaptive Services Grid (ASG)
2. Data Information and Process Integration (DIP)
3. Knowledge Web
4. Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies (SEKT)
5. Triple Space Communications (TripCom)

5. Knowledge
Ontologies
Methodology for SWS Ontologies (DIP)
e-Government Ontology (DIP)
Ontology 101
Ontology Engineering [ppt]
Ontology-based Business Process Management
Translating a Typical Business Process Modeling Language to a Web Services Ontology through Lightweight Mapping
Semantic Web Services
According to WC3, web service is a software system designed to be able to mutually operate between computers on network. Semantic web service was born by combination of semantic web and web service. It is sure that semantic web service will bring expansion of web service expression through semantic web annotation and linkage automation between services (discovery, synthesis, choice, and call). Recently, studies on OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S that are focused on semantic creation of service expression are going on. SUPER is being developed based on WSMO.

Business Process Management
State of BPM
Business processes in a Web services world
Business processes and workflow in the Web services world
The Institute of Business Process Management
 Active Journal of Business Process Management
Business Process Management Journal
The Multiple Dimensions of Business Process Modelling and Standardization

Languages
From UML to BPEL
Business Process Execution Laguage for Web Services
BPEL Repository
Reference guide for creating BPEL4WS documents
WS-BPEL Extension for People
BPML BPEL4WS
WfMC
XPDL
BPMN
Web-enabled show cases - WSMO and DIP tutorials
Web-enabled show cases - BPEL
BPEL Resource Guide

References
http://www.ip-super.org