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Business Process Management (BPM) focused on managing IT-supported business operations from a business expert’s process view, rather than a technical perspective. The motivation for BPM was the need for organisations to continuously align their running business processes, executed within multiple heterogeneous systems, with processes required by business needs. However, current tools offered limited automation and were hindered by the heterogeneity of legacy systems implementing those processes. Additionally, process representations were not accessible to machine reasoning, preventing the querying of processes for compliance with regulations.

The SUPER project aimed to develop a technological platform to manage business processes in a scalable and semantically interoperable manner. It combined Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology with BPM to provide a framework for the automated discovery, substitution, composition, and execution of business process implementations. SUPER demonstrated the effective deployment of SWS in large-scale applications in the telecommunications industry. The project delivered horizontal ontologies to describe business processes, vertical telecommunications-oriented ontologies for domain-specific annotations, and a suite of tools based on the SEKT and DIP projects.

Project Participants

SAP AG (Germany)
eTel (Austria)
IBIS Prof. Thome AG (Germany)
IBM Research (Switzerland)
IDS Scheer (Germany)
Isoco (Spain)
Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck (Austria)
MIP – Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
Nexcom (Bulgaria)
NIWA (Austria)
Ontotext Lab, Sirma (Bulgaria)
Open University (UK)
Telefonica (Spain)
The Poznan University of Economics (Poland)
TU Eindhoven (Netherlands)
University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Telekomunikacja Polska (Poland)
CEFRIEL (Italy)

Team

John Domingue
Liliana Cabral
Pierre Grenon
Barry Norton
Carlos Pedrinaci

Publications

Pedrinaci, C., Domingue, J. and Sheth, A. (2011) Semantic Web Services, in eds. John Domingue, Dieter Fensel and James Hendler, Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies, 2, Springer.

Cabral, L. and Domingue, J. (2009) Translating Semantic Web Service Based Business Process Models, Workshop: Semantic Web Services in Practice (SWSIP) 2009 at IEEE APSCC 2009, Singapore, IEEE Computer Society.

Cabral, L., Norton , B. and Domingue, J. (2009) The Business Process Modelling Ontology, Workshop: Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009) at European Semantic Web Conference – ESWC 2009, Greece, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. ACM Press.

Grenon, P. and Francisco-Marcos, D. (2009) Ontology-Strength Industry Standards – The Case of the Telecommunication Domain, Workshop: 4th Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI 2009) at 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management (EKCM 2009), Vicenza, Italy Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, eds. R. Ferrario and A. Oltramari, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 189, IOS Press.

Domingue, J. and Fensel, D. (2009) PSMs in a Global Networked Age, AIEDAM Special Issue Problem Solving Methods: Past, Present and Future, 23, 3, Cambridge University Press.

Liu, D., Pedrinaci, C. and Domingue, J. (2009) Semantic Enabled Complex Event Language for Business Process Monitoring, Workshop: The 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM2009) at The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Greece.

Pedrinaci, C. and Domingue, J. (2009) Ontology-based Metrics Computation for Business Process Analysis, Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM2009) at The 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Greece.

Francisco-Marcos, D. and Grenon, P. (2009) Enhancing Telecommunication Business Process Representation and Integration with Ontologised Industry Standards, Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management at 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Crete, Greece.

Norton, B., Cabral, L. and Nitzsche, J. (2009) Ontology-based Translation of Business Process Models, The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2009), Venice, Italy, IEEE Computer Society.

Pedrinaci, C., Markovic, I., Hasibether, F. and Domingue, J. (2009) Strategy-driven Business Process Analysis, 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznan, Poland.

Pedrinaci, C., Lambert, D., Wetzstein, B., Lessen, T., Cekov, L. and Dimitrov, M. (2008) SENTINEL: A Semantic Business Process Monitoring Tool, Workshop: Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI2008) at 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), Karlsruhe, Germany.

Pedrinaci, C., Brelage, C., Lessen, T., Domingue, J., Karastoyanova, D. and Leymann, F. (2008) Semantic Business Process Management: Scaling up the Management of Business Processes, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) 2008, IEEE Computer Society.

Medeiros, A., Aalst, W. and Pedrinaci, C. (2008) Semantic Process Mining Tools: Core Building Blocks, 16th European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, Ireland.

Pedrinaci, C., Domingue, J. and Medeiros, A. (2008) A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis, 5th European Semantic Web Conference 2008, Tenerife, Spain, eds. Sean Bechhofer, Manfred Hauswirth, Joerg Hoffmann, Manolis Koubarakis.

Abramowicz, W., Filipowska, A., Kaczmarek, M., Pedrinaci, C., Starzecka, M. and Walczak, A. (2008) Organization Structure Description for the Needs of Semantic Business Process Management, Workshop: 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2008) at 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), CEUR.

Medeiros, A., Carenini, A., Celino, I., Valle, E., Facca, F., Oppitz, M., Pedrinaci, C., Zeissler, G. and Zoller, S. (2008) Using Semantics to Aid Scenario-Based Analysis, Workshop: 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management at 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), CEUR.

Tanasescu, V. and Domingue, J. (2008) A Differential Notion of Place for Local Search, Workshop: First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008) at First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008) in conjunction with the WWW 2008 Conference, Beijing, China.

Norton, B., Pedrinaci, C., Domingue, J. and Zaremba, M. (2008) Semantic Execution Environments for Semantics-Enabled SOA, it – Methods and Applications of Informatics and Information Technology, eds. Dimka Karastoyanova,Frank Leymann, 2, pp. 118-121, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag.

Galizia, S., Gugliotta, A., Pedrinaci, C. and Domingue, J. (2007) Applying Semantic Web Services, Workshop: 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop – Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari – Italy.

Medeiros, A., Pedrinaci, C., Aalst, W., Domingue, J., Song, M., Rozinat, A., Norton, B. and Cabral, L. (2007) An Outlook on Semantic Business Process Mining and Monitoring, Workshop: 3rd International IFIP Workshop On Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS ’07) at On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops.

Pedrinaci, C. and Domingue, J. (2007) Towards an Ontology for Process Monitoring and Mining, Workshop: Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007) at 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007).

Norton, B. and Pedrinaci, C. (2006) 3-Level Service Composition and Cashew: A Model for Orchestration and Choreography in Semantic Web Services, Workshop: 2nd International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe’06) at OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM’06), Montpelier, FR.

Hepp, M., Leymann, F., Bussler, C., Domingue, J., Wahler, A. and Fensel, D. (2005)  Semantic Business Process Management: A vision towards Using Semantic Web Services for Business Process Management, IEEE International Conference on e Business Engineering, Beijing, China Proceedings of the IEEE ICEBE 2005.