Abstract
  This tutorial explains and demonstrates how the introduction of Semantic Web Services (SWS) to process aware software systems and to Business Process Management (BPM) in general can eliminate the deficiencies that current BPM technology exhibits. The tutorial starts with a thorough discussion of the underlying concepts, Service Oriented Architectures, ontologies, business process management systems and its relevance for today’s system developers. The tutorial will further present the state of the art of current process management systems and Semantic Web Service frameworks. It will motivate the need for explicit use of Semantics to overcome the current weaknesses in BPM, and present a consolidated technical framework that integrates SWS into BPM technology.
The first session will cover the foundations and theoretical aspects, while the second session will be dedicated to a software demonstration and a hands-on session wherein the attendees actively model Business Processes and Semantic Web Services with the respective software tools. Therewith attendees will gain a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in semantically enriched BPM technology, which is one of the central trends in BPM research and development. The tutorial will be held by BPM and SWS experts that actively work on integration of both technologies.BiographyArmin Haller (www.armin-haller.com) is a PhD-Student in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University Ireland, Galway in Ireland.
He is currently working in the Semantic Integration in Business (SIB) cluster and is co-managing the m3pe project, to design a process ontology to formally capture different process execution models. He is further involved in the EU funded SUPER project, which aims to extend existing generic models for the representation of processes with semantic information capturing all aspects of system behaviour.
His research interests are Business Process Integration and Semantic Web Services, where he published around 10 scientific articles in International conferences and workshops and co-edited the Business Process Management Workshops Proceedings in 2005.
Marin Dimitrov is a senior project manager at Ontotext Lab, the R&D division of Sirma Group, with more than 8 years of experience in the company. His work experience includes software and research in various areas, such as enterprise integration systems, e-commerce, information retrieval and extraction, ontology management, semantic web services and semantic business process management as well as experience in 5 EU IST research projects.
Marin Dimitrov has a MSc degree in Computer Science and his research interests include human language technologies, semantics for business processes management and web services. He has more than 15 publications in different research areas. |
