Companies increasingly adopt process-aware information systems (PAISs) to provide operational support for their business processes. At the same time, temporal aspects play a crucial role in today's business life. In our fast paced world, where even small delays might cause severe problems, for companies it is essential to be aware of the temporal properties of their business processes and to control and monitor them. Unfortunately, contemporary process-aware information systems lack a comprehensive support for temporal aspects, which restricts their applicability in practice significantly.
Hence, the major goal of our 
ATAPIS project is to develop a comprehensive framework for the specification, control and monitoring of time-aware processes in adaptive PAISs. Thereby, special attention is paid to the correct execution of time-aware processes under real world conditions, as well as to their dynamic adaptation. In particular, it must be possible to execute time-aware processes in a PAIS without affecting its robustness or performance.
In his talk, Andreas Lanz will discuss some of the issues and challenges faced when implementing time support for adaptive process-aware information systems. This includes run-time support of time-aware processes as well as the dynamic adaptation of such processes either at the process instance or at the process schema level. He will also present some of our recent research results in the context of temporal aspects of business processes and discuss some ideas on future research directions.