ABSTRACT
In recent years, the concept of situational-awareness has been explored
by the information systems areas in order to analyze contextsensitive
data. This approach seeks to detect a particular state of
interest in reality, that is, a contextual situation and react accordingly,
helping to improve adaptability to changing domain conditions.
In this paper, we describe a conceptual architecture focused on
the representation of contextual situations through business rules
and their integration with business processes. As a proof of concept,
an application for real-time monitoring of medical devices
was implemented. This work has shown that bringing situational
awareness to information systems can reduce the complexity of
business processes as well as increase the reliability of the domain
representation model.