TY - JOUR
T1 - The Internet of Things Meets Business Process Management: A Manifesto
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 - Leotta, Francesco
AU - Mannhardt, Felix
AU - Marrella, Andrea
AU - Mendling, Jan
AU - Oberweis, Andreas
AU - Reichert, Manfred
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
AU - Serral, Estefania
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 that collects and exchanges data through the Internet. These things can be artificial or natural and interact as autonomous agents that form 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 in practice, we strongly believe that, on the one hand, the management of IoT applications will greatly benefit from BPM concepts, methods, and technologies. On the other hand, the IoT poses challenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current state of the art in the BPM field. In this article, we question the extent to which these two paradigms can be combined, and we discuss emerging challenges and intersections from a research and practitioner's point of view in terms of complex software systems development.
AB - The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of connected devices that collects and exchanges data through the Internet. These things can be artificial or natural and interact as autonomous agents that form 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 in practice, we strongly believe that, on the one hand, the management of IoT applications will greatly benefit from BPM concepts, methods, and technologies. On the other hand, the IoT poses challenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current state of the art in the BPM field. In this article, we question the extent to which these two paradigms can be combined, and we discuss emerging challenges and intersections from a research and practitioner's point of view in terms of complex software systems development.
U2 - 10.1109/MSMC.2020.3003135
DO - 10.1109/MSMC.2020.3003135
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2333-942X
VL - 6
SP - 34
EP - 44
JO - I E E E Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine
JF - I E E E Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine
IS - 4
ER -