Business processes face constantly changing context factors like varying
customer behavior or market conditions that force to adapt the
underlying workflows to these evolving situations. Information overload
induced by the diversity of context factors, however, leads to the
inability to provide coherently modeled, comprehensible, and re?usable
workflows, the failure to recognize relevant situations in time, and
finally, the lack of provenance information urgently needed for
optimizing workflows. The main goal of our research project WorkAware is
to leverage situation awareness in all phases of business process
management. WorkAware will be based on a generic ontology?driven
framework for situation perception, comprehension and projection and
will employ aspect?oriented techniques for achieving extensible workflow
models and tracking of provenance information.