A process-guide model for task management

Task management (TM) is the automation of a business process for supporting multimedia content in whole or part. To achieve the function of TM, the multimedia business process must be abstracted from the real world and described by a kind of formal method. The result is process model. This paper presents a novel approach, called PGM, for modeling and implementing the process model using a process-guide model (PGM). The PGM constitutes a self-contained piece of multimedia content that indivisibly unites three of the content´s aspects, namely the media aspect, the semantic aspect, and the functional aspect. The model provides means for the integration of ontological knowledge within a PGM. A formal definition is proposed for PGM.