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Semantic business process management: a vision towards using semantic Web services for business process management
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Conference
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IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05) e-Business Engineering e-Business Engineering, 2005. ICEBE 2005. IEEE International Conference on. :535-540 2005
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Business process management (BPM) is the approach to manage the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's view rather than from a technical perspective. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is still very limited, creating inertia in the necessary evolution and dynamics of business processes, and BPM does not provide a truly unified view on the process space of an organization. We trace back the problem of mechanization of BPM to an ontological one, i.e. the lack of machine-accessible semantics, and argue that the modeling constructs of semantic Web services frameworks, especially WSMO, are a natural fit to creating such a representation. As a consequence, we propose to combine SWS and BPM and create one consolidated technology, which we call semantic business process management (SBPM).