The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: A Manifesto
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of connected devices collecting and exchanging data over the Internet. These things can be artificial or natural, and interact as autonomous agents forming a complex system. In turn, Business Process Management (BPM) was established to analyze, discover, design, implement, execute, monitor and evolve collaborative business processes within and across organizations. While the IoT and BPM have been regarded as separate topics in research and practice, we strongly believe that the management of IoT applications will strongly benefit from BPM concepts, methods and technologies on the one hand; on the other one, the IoT poses challenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current state-of-the-art in the BPM field. In this paper, we question to what extent these two paradigms can be combined and we discuss the emerging challenges.
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@article{arxiv.1709.03628,
title = {The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: A Manifesto},
author = {Christian Janiesch and Agnes Koschmider and Massimo Mecella and Barbara Weber and Andrea Burattin and Claudio Di Ciccio and Giancarlo Fortino and Avigdor Gal and Udo Kannengiesser and Francesco Leotta and Felix Mannhardt and Andrea Marrella and Jan Mendling and Andreas Oberweis and Manfred Reichert and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma and Estefania Serral and WenZhan Song and Jianwen Su and Victoria Torres and Matthias Weidlich and Mathias Weske and Liang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03628},
year = {2020}
}