Workpakages
WP1: Semantic Business Process Modeling Ontology
The aim of this workpackage is to develop the Semantic Description Framework for Business Processes in form of a meta-level ontology, hence called the Business Process Modeling Ontology BPMO. By extending the Web Service Modeling Ontology WSMO.

WP2: Semantic Business Process Querying, Discovery, and Composition
The aim of this workpackage is to develop semantically enabled techniques for querying, discovering, and composing business processes that are described semantically by the BPMO. These are the core facilities enabled by semantically driven Business Process Management technology, providing novel and beneficial support for business level BPM. Therefore, existing approaches for semantically enabled querying, discovery, and composition are extended towards the needs for BPM, and prototypical functional components are realized.

WP3: Semantic Business Process Management Suite (SemBiz BPMSuite)
The aim of this workpackage is to develop the SemBiz BPMSuite as a graphical end user tool for enabling business experts?to edit, browse, handle, and manage business processes that are semantically described using the Business Process Modelling Ontology BPMO. While several facilities of the SemBiz BPMSuite will be realized by adapting and re-using existing tools from related developments for Semantic Web Services, the main research task here is to define a graphical user language for specifying the dynamics of business processes and map it to the BPMO descriptions.

WP4: Use Case: CRM and Billing
This workpackage provides a real-worlduse case for testing, evaluating, and demonstrating the SemBiz technology. The objective of the CRM and Billing use case is to provide real-life process and services that are annotated and deployed in the business process library. In this workpackage, we describe existing billing and CRM processes semantically according to the BPMO, define and compose target processes and discover services and processes on the IT level that match the target processes by using and testing the technologies developed in the SemBiz project.
A successful CRM strategy is usually implemented through a software system designed to support these processes. Common problems with available CRM systems interrelate directly with the domain of dynamic business process management. Of particular relevance are (1) the communication with external partners by interleaving of applicable business processes (dynamics in terms of partners) (2) changing requirements of regulatory authorities, necessitating flexible process models (dynamics in terms of governance), (3) detailed monitoring and analysis functionalities needed in CRM tools (dynamics in terms of optimisation potentials).

WP5: Validation and Evaluation
The aim of this workpackage is provide a detailed validation and evaluation of the SemBiz technology. This will include the following aspects. We propose to conduct two case studies, one at the beginning, and one at the end. While the first one is to clarify research topics and investigate alternatives the second one will be to prove the feasibility and suitability of SemBiz as a real production framework.

WP6: Dissemination
In order to ensure outreach and impact of the SemBiz project, this workpackage is to plan, coordinate and implement the dissemination activities scientific conferences, relevant workshops and industrial fairs. As far as possible, we will follow a multi-channel dissemination strategy in order to gain maximum visibility our project environment including academia, the industry and the general public.

WP7: Project Management
This workpackage is devoted to project management (both administrative and technical). It will take care of the administrative management of the project together with the coordination of the project that will evaluate the progress of the project assuring the quality of the work in regard to the planned milestones.

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