Making Workflows Situation Aware - An Ontology-Driven Framework for Dynamic Spatial Systems

Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Stefan Mitsch, Wolfgang Gottesheim, Birgit Pröll, Gustavo Rossi, Norbert Baumgartner, Robert Hutter

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Abstract

Business processes face constantly changing context factors like varying customer behavior or market conditions that force to adapt the underlying workflows to these evolving situations. Information overload induced by the diversity of context factors, however, leads to the inability to provide coherently modeled, comprehensible, and re-usable workflows and the failure to recognize relevant situations in time. The main goal of our research project ProFlow is to leverage situation awareness in all phases of workflow management especially focusing on dynamic spatial systems as encountered, e.g., in the domain of road traffic management. ProFlow thereby bases on a generic ontology-driven framework for situation perception and comprehension. This paper details on the corresponding ontological representations especially addressing extension points that allow developers to extend and configure our framework for their own application domains. This forms the basis for the overall system architecture, which is laid out along its prototypical implementation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2011)
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102015 Information systems

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics

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