MODELS 2024
Sun 22 - Fri 27 September 2024 Linz, Austria
Thu 26 Sep 2024 16:06 - 16:24 at HS 7 - Applications (2) Chair(s): Timothy Lethbridge

The capability to integrate Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into business processes (BPs) has emerged as a transformative paradigm, offering unprecedented opportunities for organisations to enhance their operational efficiency and productivity. Interacting with the physical world and leveraging real-world data to make more informed business decisions is of greatest interest, and the idea of IoT-enhanced BPs promises to automate and improve business activities and permit them to adapt to the physical environment of execution. Nonetheless, combining these two domains is challenging, and it requires new modelling methods that do not increase notation complexity and provide independent execution between the process and the underlying device technology. In this work, we propose FloBP, a model-driven engineering approach separating concerns between the IoT and BPs, providing a structured and systematic approach to modelling and executing IoT-enhanced BPs. Applying the separation of concerns through an interdisciplinary team is needed to ensure that the approach covers all necessary process aspects, including technological and modelling ones. The FloBP approach is based on modelling tools and a microservices architecture to deploy BPMN models, and it facilitates integration with the physical world, providing flexibility to support multiple IoT device technologies and their evolution. A smart canteen scenario describes and evaluates the approach’s feasibility and its possible adoption by various stakeholders. The performed evaluation concludes that the application of FloBP facilitates the modelling and development of IoT-enhanced BPs by sharing and reusing knowledge among IoT and BP experts.

Thu 26 Sep

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15:45 - 17:30
Applications (2)Tools and Demonstrations / Technical Track / Journal-First at HS 7
Chair(s): Timothy Lethbridge University of Ottawa
15:45
18m
Talk
Requirement-Driven Generation of Distributed Ledger ArchitecturesFT
Technical Track
Noor Mohammed Sabr Al-Gburi Budapest University of Technology and Economics, András Földvári , Kristóf Marussy Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Oszkár Semeráth Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Imre Kocsis
Pre-print
16:06
18m
Paper
FloBP: a model-driven approach for developing and executing IoT-enhanced business processes
Journal-First
Arianna Fedeli University of Camerino, Fabrizio Fornari University of Camerino, Italy, Andrea Polini , Barbara Re University of Camerino, Victoria Torres Universitat Politècnica de València, Pedro Valderas Universitat Politècnica de València
Link to publication DOI
16:27
18m
Talk
EpiMDE: A Model Driven Engineering Platform for Epidemiological ModelingPT
Technical Track
Bruno Curzi-Laliberté , Marios-Eleftherios Fokaefs , Michalis Famelis Université de Montréal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal
16:48
18m
Talk
AutoMW: Model-based Automated Medical WritingPT
Technical Track
Asha Rajbhoj TCS Research, Ajim Pathan TCS Research, Tanay Sant , Vinay Kulkarni Tata Consultancy Services Research, Padmalata Nistala , Rajesh Pandey , Sabarinathan Narasimhan , Geetha Thiagarajan
17:09
18m
Talk
Nautilus: Implementation of an Evolution Approach for Graph Databases
Tools and Demonstrations
Dominique Hausler University of Regensburg, Meike Klettke Universität Rostock