On the Expressiveness of BPMN for Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Applications

Caracaş, Alexandru; Kramp, Thorsten

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25160-3_2

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“…There are multiple model-driven approaches with different modeling and execution languages. There is another approach which uses standard BPMN without any extensions [CK11]. Caracas et al proposes that standard BPMN can be used to model WSN integrated business processes without any extensions.…”

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Extending BPMN for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sungur¹,

Spieß²,

Oertel³

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 15th Conference on Business Informatics

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As the Wireless sensor/actuator networks (WSNs) started to be deployed in enterprise scenarios, the need of integration of WSN applications with enterprise business processes has emerged. Creation of the WSN applications in enterprises, however, requires much low-level programming, and this causes the loss of focus on the high level goals. Therefore a model-driven approach is needed. As Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the de-facto standard of modeling business processes, it is suitable for companies to use BPMN for the model-driven approach. In this work, first we analyze the WSN properties, which distinguish them from traditional IT systems. Thereafter, we analyze the general properties of BPMN which need to be preserved to keep the common understanding that BPMN brings. As a result, we end up with some properties that are relevant with modeling WSN processes in BPMN. From these properties, we derive the requirements for modeling WSNs and propose some extensions to standard BPMN. These extensions include a new type of task, a new type of pool and a new grouping structure to set performance goals of the corresponding WSN. Afterwards, we analyze the current state of art to compare our approach with other possible approaches. Specifically, we compare our approach with standard BPMN, BPM4People extensions with respect to requirements and show that why our proposals provide a more comprehensive and suitable approach.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending BPMN for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sungur¹,

Spieß²,

Oertel³

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 15th Conference on Business Informatics

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“…To render our ideas concrete, we use BPMN to specify the behavior of WSNintegrated business processes. In addition to the aforementioned standardized nature and wide tool support of BPMN, its expressiveness is already recognized as apt to WSN applications [37]. These aspects motivate our choice of BPMN, even though our approach is generally applicable to workflow-based business process notations [6].…”

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makeSense: Simplifying the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes

Mottola

Picco

Oppermann³

et al. 2019

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Abstract-A wide gap exists between the state of the art in developing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) software and current practices concerning the design, execution, and maintenance of business processes. WSN software is most often developed based on low-level OS abstractions, whereas business process development leverages high-level languages and tools. This state of affairs places WSNs at the fringe of industry. The makeSense system addresses this problem by simplifying the integration of WSNs into business processes. Developers use BPMN models extended with WSN-specific constructs to specify the application behavior across both traditional business process execution environments and the WSN itself, which is to be equipped with application-specific software. We compile these models into a high-level intermediate language-also directly usable by WSN developers-and then into OS-specific deployment-ready binaries. Key to this process is the notion of meta-abstraction, which we define to capture fundamental patterns of interaction with and within the WSN. The concrete realization of meta-abstractions is application-specific; developers tailor the system configuration by selecting concrete abstractions out of the existing codebase or by providing their own. Our evaluation of makeSense shows that i) users perceive our approach as a significant advance over the state of the art, providing evidence of the increased developer productivity when using makeSense; ii) in large-scale simulations, our prototype exhibits an acceptable system overhead and good scaling properties, demonstrating the general applicability of makeSense; and, iii) our prototype-including the complete tool-chain and underlying system support-sustains a real-world deployment where estimates by domain specialists indicate the potential for drastic reductions in the total cost of ownership compared to wired and conventional WSN-based solutions.

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“…They also target for using SOA principles aiming towards the integration with BPEL, nonetheless their approach is based on WSDL and covers only the pure technical aspects of SOA. Carracas [10] concentrates on WSN integration via BPMN and compiling corresponding code for running it on the mote.…”

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“…The temperate here would have to be within an temperate range of [4,10] degrees Celsius. Within business analytics there are already many solutions available which work with near-realtime information.…”

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Linked Services for Enabling Interoperability in the Sensing Enterprise

Thoma

Antonescu

Mintsi

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. In future, the so called "sensing enterprise", as part of the Future Internet, will play a crucial role in the success or the failure of an enterprise. We present our vision of an enterprise interacting with the physical world based on a retail scenario. One of the main challenges is the interoperability not only between the enterprise IT systems themselves, but also between these systems and the sensing devices. We will argue that semantically enriched service descriptions, the so called linked services will ease interoperability between two or more enterprises IT systems, and between enterprise systems and the physical environment.

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On the Expressiveness of BPMN for Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Applications

Cited by 26 publications

References 16 publications

Extending BPMN for Wireless Sensor Networks

Extending BPMN for Wireless Sensor Networks

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