Academic Journal
Modelling and executing IoT-enhanced business processes through BPMN and microservices
| العنوان: | Modelling and executing IoT-enhanced business processes through BPMN and microservices |
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| المؤلفون: | Valderas, Pedro, Torres Bosch, Maria Victoria, Serral Asensio, Estefanía |
| المساهمون: | Universitat Politècnica de València. Escuela Politécnica Superior de Gandia - Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia, Universitat Politècnica de València. Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Informàtica, AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Universitat Politécnica de Valencia: RiuNet / Politechnical University of Valencia |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | IoT, BPMN, Microservices, LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS |
| الوصف: | [EN] The Internet of Things enables to connect the physical world to digital business processes (BP) and allows a BP to (1) consider real-world data to take more informed business decisions, (2) automate and/or improve BP tasks, and (3) adapt itself to the physical execution environment. We refer to these processes as IoT-enhanced BPs. Although numerous researchers have studied this subject, there are still some challenges to be faced. For instance, the need of a modelling solution that does not increase the notation complexity to facilitate further analysis and engineering decision making, or an execution approach that provides a high degree of independence between the process and the underlying IoT device technology. The objective of this work is defining an approach that (1) considers important intrinsic characteristics of IoT-enhanced BPs at modelling level without growing the complexity of the modelling language, and (2) facilitates the execution of the IoT-enhanced BPs represented in models independently from IoT devices' technology. To do so, we present a modelling approach that uses standard BPMN concepts to model IoT-enhanced BPs without modifying its metamodel. It applies the Separation of Concern (SoC) design principle: BPMN is used to describe IoT-enhanced BPs while low-level real-world data is captured in an ontology. Finally, a microservice architecture is proposed to execute BPMN models and facilitate its integration with the physical world. This architecture provides high flexibility to support multiples IoT device technologies as well as their evolution and maintenance. The evaluation done allows us to conclude that the application of the SoC principle using BPMN and ontologies facilitates the definition of intrinsic characteristics of IoT-enhanced BPs without increasing the complexity of the BPMN metamodel. Besides, the proposed microservice architecture provides a high degree of decoupling between the created models and the underlying IoT technology. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. ; This ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0164-1212 |
| Relation: | Journal of Systems and Software; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-114480RB-I00/ES/INGENIERIA DEL SOFTWARE AVANZADA PARA LA CONSTRUCCION DE SISTEMAS Y MICROSERVICIOS AUTO-ADAPTATIVOS. INCLUYENDO TECNICAS DE IA Y DE HUMANS-IN-THE-LOOP/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.111139; urn:issn:0164-1212; http://hdl.handle.net/10251/190198 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jss.2021.111139 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10251/190198 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.111139 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.71A0D3B3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 01641212 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jss.2021.111139 |