The proposed tutorial explains and demonstrates how the combination of Business Process Management (BPM) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) can eliminate the deficiencies that current BPM technology exhibits. The tutorial will present the state of the art in both areas (business process management and process execution, the SOA concept in BPM, the SWS approach and frameworks, etc.), motivate the need for explicit use of semantics to overcome the current challenges in BPM, and present a consolidated technical framework that integrates SWS into BPM technology.

The tutorial will be held by BPM and SWS experts that actively work on integration of both technologies in the EU-funded SUPER project. Information on the previous SUPER tutorials (as well as tutorial materials) is available at: http://www.ip-super.org/content/view/114/63/