Semantically-Oriented Business Process Visualization for a Data and Constraint-Based Workflow Approach

This paper introduces a novel approach which unifies a datacentric and a constraint-based workflow principle to support the requirements of knowledge intensive business processes. By the integration of a knowledge-based system, process definition and execution relevant data coincide on an ontology-based semantic net. The data, mainly driving the process, can be delivered by different sources or can be the result of an inference step by the underlying ontology. In such a case, AI technology plays an active role during the process execution and result in a division of labor with human actors. This paper presents a concept for a semantically-oriented process visualization for the introduced unified approach.