Storytelling integration of the internet of things into business processes

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. This paper discusses the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) into Business Processes (BPs). To define the business logic of thing-aware BPs, existing approaches extend traditional workflow languages (i.e., who does what, why, when, and where) with constructs like things’ roles. However, this way of defining the business logic restricts things’ operations and, thus, hinders them from initiating ad-hoc/opportunistic collaboration with peers. To overcome this limitation, we tap into the storytelling principles to introduce the concept of Process of Things (PoT) as a new way of integrating IoT into BPs. A PoT is specified as a story whose script indicates the characters that things will play as well as the scenes that will feature these things. A PoT, also, allows things to collaborate by offering value-added services to end-users. For demonstration purposes, a hospital scenario is implemented using a combination of real and simulated sensors along with different IoT technologies and communication protocols.

ISBN

9783319986500

ISSN

1865-1348

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Volume

329

First Page

127

Last Page

142

Disciplines

Business | Computer Sciences

Keywords

Business process management, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Storytelling

Scopus ID

85053501561

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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