BP-Meet-IoT International Workshop

BP-Meet-IoT

8th International Workshop on BP-Meet-IoT
(affiliated with BPM 2024)

The arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) has put into play a huge amount of interconnected and embedded computing devices with sensing and actuating capabilities that are revolutionizing the way we manage business processes. While IoT actuators can be used for process task automation, sensors can be used to collect real time data that can create unprecedent opportunities for discovering and exploiting new process insights, e.g., for timely diagnosis of process executions, efficient process prediction or to gain improvements into systems. As such, the incorporation of IoT into the Business Process Management (BPM) field will allow the development of business processes with higher levels of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness, providing as a result a better support to the evolving business requirements. Furthermore, the proper combination of these two fields can foster the development of innovative solutions not only in the business domain where the BPM emerged, but also in many different application areas in which the IoT can be applied (e.g., smart cities, smart factories, smart homes, smart agriculture, or e-health). While the integration of IoT and BPM has plenty of potential, it also imposes many challenges that need to be addressed.

BP-Meet-IoT wants to attract novel research at the intersection of these two areas by bringing together practitioners and researchers from both communities that are interested in making IoT-based business processes a reality. BP- Meet-IoT will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and practical experiences by welcoming contributions on topics such as:

Modeling IoT-aware business processes
Dealing with context in IoT-aware business processes
Privacy and security in IoT-aware business processes
Connection of analytical processes with IoT
Dealing with unstructured environments
Specifying the autonomy level of IoT things
Improving resource monitoring and quality of task execution
IoT and ubiquitous technologies supporting BPM
Sensor-based task management in BPM
Business examples of IoT technologies applied to ubiquitous BPs
IoT log preprocessing techniques

Manifesto

Some of the topics pointed out in this workshop have been already discussed in the manifesto entitled "The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: Mutual Benefits and Challenges”. This manifesto has been published by the organizers of this workshop together with the growing up BPM-IoT community as a result from the "Fresh Approaches to Business Process Modeling"(16191) seminar held in Dagstuhl in May 2016.

Location

Workshop sessions will take place in Room 113, Building C7, at the AGH University of Krakow

Program

The planned agenda for the 8th edition of the workshop is the following:

09:00 - 09:10	Opening
09:10 - 10:00	Invited keynote "Visualizing Business Process Distribution over Time and Space" by Jan Mendling
10:00 - 10:25	Check my Flow: Distributed Conformance Checking at the Source. by Julia Andersen, Patrick Rathje and Olaf Landsiedel (regular paper)
10:25 - 11:00	[ Coffe break ]
11:00 - 11:15	Sustainability in and through IoT-enhanced Business Processes. by Antoni Mestre, Manoli Albert, Ronny Seiger, Victoria Torres and Pedro Valderas (short paper)
11:15 - 11:40	From IoT Event Logs to Human Routines via Community Detection Algorithms. by Massimo Callisto De Donato, Fabrizio Fornari and Abel Armas-Cervantes (regular paper)
11:40 - 12:05	LLM-based event abstraction and integration for IoT-sourced logs. by Mohsen Shirali, Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Zahra Ahmadi and Estefanía Serral (regular paper)
12:05 - 12:30	Machinery activity recognition in the industry based on heterogeneous data. by Marta Podobińska-Staniec, Marek Kęsek and Edyta Brzychczy (regular paper)

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline (extended): ~~June 7, 2024~~ June 14, 2024
Authors notification: July 12, 2024
Camera-ready: July 19, 2024
Workshop date: September 2, 2024

Submissions

Manuscripts (research and industrial papers) submission

The articles should be no longer than 12 pages including references, figures and tables. The title page must contain a short abstract and a short list of keywords. Relevant members of the international community working on IoT and BPM topics will review all submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 PC members in order to guarantee that only high-quality papers are accepted.

The article must be formatted in accordance with the LNCS/LNBIP format specified by Springer (available for both LaTeX and MS Word) and should be submitted electronically through EasyChair by selecting the 8th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet the Internet-of Things track.

Publication & Registration

All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. It is mandatory that at least one author will register and present the paper during the workshop.