Contemporary BPM systems fit very well with traditional architectures that are based on a pull invocation principle, such as SOA. The proliferation of sensors and streams of events has led to event driven architectures that decouple event producers and consumers. EDAs are push-based and support different control structures. Future BPM systems must therefore deal both with pull and push-based architectures. In this talk we will analyze the interplay of the different architectures, their components and the desirable and achievable correctness notions and non-functional properties.

The usage of RFID and sensing technologies in Supply Chain Management applications requires the automatic conversion of large amounts of raw data into manageable business process information. This has led to many performance and scalability issues in existing RFID infrastructures. We present an approach to alleviate these shortcomings based on a flexible system architecture that partially migrates business data processing towards the periphery.

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Abstract-In this paper we suggest a multiagent based middleware architecture that is particularly suitable for supporting wireless sensor network deployments in industrial environments like mines and chemical processing plants. Our intention is to make the proposed middleware architecture to be as closely aligned to the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents standards as possible. The existing agent based solutions for wireless sensor networks lack some important features that these standards mandate and thus reduce their interoperability with other existing or upcoming agent based systems. These standards that we choose for our middleware have the potential of providing a more reliable event reporting mechanism than the one supported by existing agent based middleware.

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