SUPER

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SUPER
Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises
Keywords Semantic Web, Web Services
Funding agency European Union
Project type Integrated project
Reference FP6-26850
Objective
Participants SAP AG (coordinator),

eTel Austria AG, IBIS Prof. Thome AG,
IBM Research GMBH,
Intelligent Software Components,
IDS Scheer AG,
University of Innsbruck,
MIP Consorzio per l'Innovazione nella Gestione delle Imprese e della PA,
National University of Ireland - Galway,
NEXCOM Bulgaria EAD,
HANIVAL Internet Services GmbH,
Ontotext,
The Open University,
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal,
Poznan University of Economics,
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,
Universität Stuttgart,
TELEKOMUNIKACJA POLSKA S.A.,
CEFRIEL - Società consortile a Responsabilità Limitata
Budget Overall: 16.3

Funding:
Duration 1 April 2006 - 31 March 2009
Web site 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.

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[edit] Project 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.

[edit] Project 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.

[edit] Project Advantages

SUPER is set in the environment composed of finite number of entities, thus it does not concern itself with issues currently discussed in SW community.

Its great strength comes from inheriting results of many EU funded projects such as SEKT, DIP, SWWS and IBROW to name a few. As a representation of BP SUPER chooses the WSMO SWS, requirements of business experts are described by WSMO goals and coupling between the two bases on extended WSMO mediators.

Further advantages of SUPER are especially important when it comes to the business ground and direct handling of its most important challenges.

The provision of framework allows for integration of heterogeneous BPs, construction of supporting ontologies enables rapid response to the change of external and internal environment, mediation layer enhances the collaboration between organizations, carefully scrutinized flow of knowledge leaving company extended by means of selective sharing of the before mentioned asset.


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