A Semantic Web Service-Oriented Model for Project Management

Project management (PM) plays an important role in any organization for saving money and utilizing time efficiently. With growing number of methods and tools for project management, need for an integrated environment to facilitate project planning, execution and control according to project stages seems crucial. Management of changes that happen in various stages of project is another challenge of project management. In this paper, we propose a semantic Web service-oriented model for project management, aiming to integrate different project management-related Web services and provide flexible project management by using a central decision making component. The proposed model is based on Web service modeling ontology and its execution environment (WSMX), furthermore we use PROMONT as our reference ontology to represent project management domain.