WORKAWARE Situation-aware Workflow Management

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, the failure to recognize relevant situations in time, and finally, the lack of provenance information urgently needed for optimizing workflows. The main goal of our research project WorkAware is to leverage situation awareness in all phases of business process management. WorkAware will be based on a generic ontology-driven framework for situation perception, comprehension and projection and will employ aspect-oriented techniques for achieving extensible workflow models and tracking of provenance information.