Business Process Technology
Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske
Within the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program we have started a joined project with chair for Systems Analysis and Modeling. Design Thinking is a set of methods and techniques to enable innovation processes. It is used in companies like IDEO and D-LABS to create new products. In this project we want to explicitly support D-LABS in their software requirements engineering projects.
The goal is to integrate other types of models with BPM models. The main application will be the collection scenario descriptions which can be integrated with other information and ultimately refined to come to process models. We work on this project together with D-LABS.
The goal of the Adaptive Services Grid project is to develop an architectural blueprint and a proof-of-concept reference implementation of an open platform for the development and provision of adaptive services. The aimed platform offers functionality for the whole service lifecycle, starting from discovery of already existing services, continued by the composition and binding of these services, enactment, and monitoring of the composed service enactment in order to detect faults and handle them either by re-binding or re-composition. A key concept of ASG is the usage of semantic information about services to fulfil user requests. Services in ASG are thus described not only syntactically (the technical interface to invoke a service) but also semantically. These semantics are represented by formal semantic service specifications, which include functional and non-functional properties and rely on ontologies from industrial domains. ASG components make use of this information about what a service does in addition to how it does it for the already mentioned discovery and composition of services.
To achieve its goal, ASG addresses scientific and technological issues making use of the knowledge and expertise of major European research institutions with significant contributions from the software, telecommunications, and telematics industry. ASG provides the integration of its sub-projects in the context of an open platform, including tool development by small and medium sized enterprises.
ASG is an integrated project of the 6th frame work programm funded by the European Union. Our tasks in the project are:
The objective of PESOA is to develop an approach for the product line based development of process oriented software (Product Family Engineering), which is validated by developing a platform prototype for Process Family Engineering. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Our major roles in the project are:
