SUPER
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| SUPER | |
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| Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises | |
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| Keywords | Semantic Web, Web Services |
| Project type | Integrated project |
| Funding agency | European Union |
| Reference | FP6-26850 |
| Project coordinator | SAP AG |
| Participants | eTel Austria AG,
IBIS Prof. Thome AG, |
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| Duration | 1 April 2006 – 31 March 2009 |
| Website | http://www.ip-super.org |
SUPER or Semantics Utilised for Process management within and between EnteRprises is an integrated project funded by the European Sixth Framework Program, under the Information Society Technologies thematic. SUPER is a member of the European Semantic Systems Initiative (ESSI) cluster.
The major objective of SUPER is to raise Business Process Management to the business level from the Information Technology level where it mostly resides now. This objective requires that BPM is accessible at the level of semantics of business experts. To reach this objective, the project aims at providing a framework based on Semantic Web Services technology, able to acquire, organise and share the knowledge embedded both in business processes, systems and software, and human expertise.
Aims & Gains
SUPER aims to create the technological framework constituting BPM enriched with machine readable semantics by employing Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services accompanied by universal reference implementation for mechanized BPM.
Gains from this project will consist of:
- further automation of the business process life cycle
- adding a layer designed for business professionals to handle the BPM on their own
- demonstration of successful deployment both of SWS and SBPM in industrial-strength applications applied repetitively in the field of telecommunications.
As the limitations of traditional BPM are most visible in the telecommunication sector it came as a natural testbed of the SUPER project achievements.
Objectives
Scientific objectives
- construction and assessment of technological framework for SBPM,
- acquiring new generic languages suited for representation of processes, different process models and goal *description having in mind all aspects of system behaviour (e.g. costs, dependencies, constraints, other data flows, time limitations),
- creation of automated annotation techniques of already existing BPs, their fragments, IT components etc,
- development of process query tools
- adjustment existing reasoners to the specific needs of SUPER
- elaboration of industrial-strength mediation procedures for automated coupling between business and IT perspectives
- augmentation of SWS foundations on the basis of new experiences obtained from their deployment to large-scale test environments.
Technical objectives
- building horizontal ontologies in aim to annotate both complete BPs and their fragments,
- assembling vertical ontologies for the chosen implementation domain,
- complete inventory of tools supporting every stage of SBPM.
See also web-enabled showcases on project objectives.