The major goal of this project is the development and implementation of basic concepts of a comprehensive approach for the specification, control and monitoring of time-aware processes in adaptive process-aware information systems. Thereby, special attention will be payed to the execution of temporal processes under real world conditions, and to the dynamic adaptation of such temporal process instances. In particular, it must be possible to execute temporal processes in a real process management system without having to make compromises in ensuring the correct execution of temporal process instances, or the performance of the respective process management system.

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Coordinating complex process structures is a fundamental task for enterprises. Such process structures have in common, that they consist of hundreds up to thousands of interdependent processes forming large process structures. Engineering a car, for example, requires the coordination of development processes for hundreds of components. Each of these development processes itself comprises a number of interdependent processes for designing, testing, and releasing the respective component. Typically, the resulting process structure is data-driven; i.e., it is characterized by a strong relation with the assembly of the product. We utilize this relation for automatically creating process structures based on data structures. The strong relation is used for adapting process structures at a high level of abstraction. Further, we provide exception handling mechanisms for managing dynamic adaptations. Altogether, COREPRO provides a new paradigm for IT support which reduces efforts for modeling and dynamic adaptation of data-driven process structures significantly.

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In the C3Pro project we analyze flexibility and adaptivity of collaborative business processes in connection with business process compliance. Hence, consistency and correctness will be of central interest as well as the provision of change propagation methods to business partners with respect to autonomy, security, and trust constraints.

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An important goal of any Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is to increase the flexibility of IT-supported business processes. In particular, it should be possible to quickly implement new business processes and business services, and to flexibly adapt the corresponding IT applica-tions to changing business needs. In addition, it is crucial to adequately cope with changes in the SOA environment itself. Examples of such changes include modifications of IT services or business objects that are used by IT-supported business processes.

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Research focus of MARPLE is to enable a tight integration of process management technology and mobile computing. Our overall vision is to provide sophisticated mobile process support; i.e., to realize generic process management features on mobile devices including support for process changes,  process instance migrations, etc.

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So far, adaptive process management technology has not addressed the fundamental question what we can learn from process instance changes and how to derive optimized process models from this information. Process mining techniques offer promising perspectives, but have focused on the analysis of pure execution logs so far. The MinADEPT project will close this gap and provide a comprehensive approach for the intelligent mining of adaptive processes.

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The goal of the niPRO project is to use innovative semantic technology to integrate relevant process information in intelligent, user-adequate process information portals (also denoted as process cockpits). A niPRO process cockpit shall supply knowledge workers with both structured and unstructured process information in the right place in due course. Thereby, structured process information is typically provided by enterprise information systems by means of logged execution data. Examples of unstructured process information include textual process descriptions, procedural requirements, forms, guidelines, and checklists.

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Our basic mission in this project is to develop concepts, methods and tools for realizing object- and process-aware application systems. In particular, we aim at a flexible integration of business data, business processes, and thus want to overcome limitations known from activity-centered Workflow Management Systems.

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One goal of the PROCEED project is the integration of the different, available IT systems, which are involved in the life cycle of E/E product data.

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Today business processes are characterized by a high degree of distribution what makes it difficult to keep track of their progress. Proviado aims at providing an integrative presentation of processes whose activities are distributed among several systems and include steps that are carried out within legacy systems or even done by hand. The visualization will be personalized taking into account the user’s needs regarding the level of detail. Another goal is giving users an overview of the processes running in a distributed environment and monitoring the status. The knowledge gained will be transfered to the industrial partners by an implemented tool allowing us to present complex processes using recent internet graphic formats.

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Collaborative knowledge work (CKW) is becoming the predominant type of work in highly developed countries. Leveraging their expertise, skills, and experiences, knowledge workers daily deal with demanding, complex situations. Today, tehre is a lack of an appropriate context- and process-aware support for knowledge workers, reducing their productivity and hindering the reuse as well as the continuous improvement of elaborated solutions.

The procollab project aims at developing such a support through a new, innovative solution in order to significantly facilitate knowledge workers' daily workload.

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The proView project develops a framework that enables stakeholders to business process models based on personalized process views - a personalized process view abstracts a business process model in a stakeholder-centered way, e.g., by only displaying those activities the stakeholder is involved in. Such process abstraction not only increases model comprehensibility, but also foster model changes and evolution. Furthermore, the proView approach provides alternative process representations to stakeholders (e.g., process graphs, forms or trees) such that they can choose the one most favorable in their current working context. The overall goal is to assist stakeholders in understanding and adapting business processes they are involved in.

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Provop deals with advanced issues related to the configuration and management of process variants. It provides full life cycle support and allows for flexible process configuration resulting in a maintainable collection of process variants.

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Using applied research and new perspectives, this project will enable the benefits of automated software engineering to be used in conjunction with software quality management, thereby bringing software development processes to a new level. A powerful proof-of-concept prototype will be developed using the AristaFlow BPM Suite.

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Our objective in the SeaFlows project is to devise a general framework for supporting business process compliance along the complete process lifecycle.

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Funded by the 7th Framwork Programme of the European Commission, SustainHub is a collaborative project encompassing 15 partners from seven European countries. SustainHub is supposed to proved a network solution and efficient approach to collect sustainability data for products and processes along the supply chain. Thereby the management of sustainabilty data in the supply chain will be facilitatedas well as the eco-efficiency of products and production processes will be increased.

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