TY - JOUR
T1 - The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: Mutual Benefits and Challenges
AU - Janiesch, Christian
AU - Koschmider, Agnes
AU - Mecella, Massimo
AU - Weber, Barbara
AU - Burattin, Andrea
AU - Di Ciccio, Claudio
AU - Fortino, Giancarlo
AU - Gal, Avigdor
AU - Kannengiesser, Udo
AU - Mannhardt, Felix
AU - Marrella, Andrea
AU - Mendling, Jan
AU - Oberweis, Andreas
AU - Reichert, Manfred
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
AU - Serral, Estefanía
AU - Song, WenZhan
AU - Su, Jianwen
AU - Torres, Victoria
AU - Weidlich, Matthias
AU - Weske, Mathias
AU - Zhang, Liang
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Internet of Things
KW - Sensors
KW - Business
KW - Adaptation models
KW - Analytical models
KW - Monitoring
KW - Process control
U2 - 10.1109/MSMC.2020.3003135
DO - 10.1109/MSMC.2020.3003135
M3 - Article
VL - 6
SP - 34
EP - 44
JO - IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine
JF - IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine
IS - 4
ER -