TBPM

Suppporting the management of change in business processes using intelligent task management and coordination technologies

OVERVIEW

The overall aim of the TBPM project is to support the management of change in business processes with the help of intelligent task management and coordination technologies. To provide this support in a realistic business environment integration of existing tools and systems and effective communication must be achieved. In order to make the intelligent task management and coordination technologies feasible, advanced process modelling techniques are required together with an agreed terminology (ontology).

We propose to produce an advanced procedure builder for knowledge acquisition in process models, an ontology as a basis for modelling, integration, and communication, an agent-based architecture for integration together with support for agent development, a task manager for the enactment of processes which directly supports user tasks with the help of advanced task management and coordination technologies, and models of a suitable process to show how our approach addresses issues of business process modelling and to illustrate how our results are applied in a realistic business situation.

AIAI Last updated 10th June 1997
by Ian Harrison