BP-Meet-IoT International Workshop

BP-Meet-IoT

7th International Workshop on BP-Meet-IoT
(affiliated with BPM 2023)

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 two types of contributions:

Articles presenting original research 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

Reports presenting a solution to address an IoT process mining challenge. We want to foster also a more practical-point-of-view solutions provided for real scenarios. For this purpose, we also accept submissions that deal with the mining of a sensor event log of a smart environment (e.g., home, office, factory, retail store, warehouse, etc.). Although we provide a possible dataset (link), we welcome solutions that can obtain interesting insights from any sensor log the authors may possess. The solution can analyze the sensor log using whatever techniques available, in order to find processes executed in the smart environment. We strongly encourage participants to use any available tool, technique, or method to solve the IoT process mining challenge.

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

Coffee and lunch brakes will take place at (DE RECHTBANK)
Workshop sessions will take place at ( Westerdijkkamer, ACADEMIEGEBOUW)

Program

This year, the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Twins for Business Processes will join the BP-meet-IoT workshop. The shared agenda will be the following:

09:00 - 09:15	Opening of the joint BP-Meet-IoT and DT workshops
Session 1: Invited keynote
09:15 - 10:30	Data Models in the Middle. by Wil van der Aalst
10:30 - 10:30	[ Coffe break ]
Session 2: BP-meet-IoT papers
11:15 - 11:40	An Object-centric Approach to Handling Concurrency in IoT-aware Processes. by Florian Gallik, Yusuf Kirikkayis, Ronny Seiger and Manfred Reichert (regular paper)
11:40 - 12:05	An Event-Centric Metamodel for IoT-Driven Process Monitoring and Conformance Checking. by Marco Franceschetti, Ronny Seiger and Barbara Weber (regular paper)
12:05 - 12:20	Process Mining on Sensor Location Event Data. by Dominik Janssen, Felix Mannhardt and Agnes Koschmider (short paper)
12:20 - 12:45	Viola: Detecting Violations of Behaviors from Streams of Sensor Data. by Gemma Di Federico, Andrea Burattin and Giovanni Meroni (regular paper)
12:45 - 13:45	[ Lunch break ]
Session 2: BP-meet-IoT (cont.)
13:45 - 14:10	Analyzing Behavior in Cyber-Physical Systems in Connected Vehicles: A Case Study. by Harry Herbert Beyel, Omar Makke, Oleg Gusikhin and Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (regular paper)
Session 3: Digital Twins
14:10 - 14:15	Digital Twins workshop presentation
14:15 - 14:40	Digital Twin of the Organization for Support of Customer Journeys and Business Processes. by Wolfgang Groher and Uwe V. Riss (regular paper)
14:40 - 15:05	Framing the Digital Business Process Twin: From a Holistic Maturity Model to a Specific and Substantial Use Case in the Automotive Industry. by Markus Rabe and Emre Kilic (regular paper)
Session 4: Joint interactive and closing session
15:05 - 15:15	Joint interactive session presentation
15:15 - 16:00	[ Coffe break ]
16:00-17:15	Joint interactive session
17:15-17:30	Closing

Important Dates

Paper & Challenge submission deadline: ~~May 30, 2023~~ June 10, 2023 (Extended, strict)
Authors notification: June 30, 2023
Camera-ready: July 14, 2023
Workshop date: September 11, 2023

Submissions

Manuscripts (research and industrial papers) submission

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.

Reports submission: solutions to an IoT process mining challenge

Reports should be no longer than 25 pages, including references, figures and tables. The title should clearly mention that the submission is for the Challenge. Reports are judged on the originality and completeness of the analysis as well as on the usefulness of the results. An expert jury will select the best three papers (out of the submitted ones), which then will be evaluated by the audience. The selected reports should be presented at the workshop (having a registered participant) through a poster. On the basis of the committee reviews and the opinion of the workshop audience, a winner will be selected, who will receive a prize certificate.

Both kind of submissions 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 7th 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.

Special Issue Papers

The following four papers of last edition workshop were invited to submit their contributions to our special issue IoT-Based BPM for Smart Environments in the Future Internet journal.

CvAMoS—Event Abstraction Using Contextual Information.
Paper by Gemma Di Federico and Andrea Burattin.

DataStream XES Extension: Embedding IoT Sensor Data into Extensible Event Stream Logs.
Paper by Juergen Mangler, Joscha Grüger, Lukas Malburg, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Yannis Bertrand, Janik-Vasily Benzin, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Estefania Serral Asensio and Ralph Bergmann.

BPMNE4IoT: A Framework for Modeling, Executing and Monitoring IoT-Driven Processes.
Paper by Yusuf Kirikkayis, Florian Gallik, Michael Winter and Manfred Reichert.

An Interactive Method for Detection of Process Activity Executions from IoT Data.
Paper by Ronny Seiger, Marco Franceschetti and Barbara Weber.