Enhancement of Semantic Business Processes with Information Profiles: Application of Mobile Context Information

Business Process Management (BPM), acknowledging business processes to be key assets of business actors, provides a number of techniques and approaches for improving various aspects of these processes. Recently the concept of Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) appeared leveraging BPM to the next level by adding the semantic layer to the traditional BPM approach. Still, processes definitions are static and thus pose risk that instances of such processes may not take into consideration the changed business circumstances. Therefore being able to actively modify instances of semantic business processes based on the changes in their economical environment opens for much better efficiency and higher value added of these processes. Using mobile context information can be one of ways of gathering information about the changed economical context.