ProAmbitIon, reloaded: A two-year retrospection Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • The rapid digital transformation of business processes holds significant promise for enhancing process automation, analysis, and optimization. However, digital traces of real-world processes-particularly those involving human activities-are frequently incomplete, thereby constraining the capabilities for automated process analysis. With the ProAmbitIon project, we address this challenge by leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to bridge the gap between real-world process executions and their digital representations. First, by augmenting the process environment with sensors, we enable a fine-grained monitoring and contextualization of process activities. Next, by generating and enriching digital traces from and with IoT data, we enable online conformance checking without depending on traditional information systems. With the development of new approaches for IoT-driven process conformance checking, we also address the issue of ambiguities originating from process-related artifacts. The project is validated through real-world scenarios from healthcare and manufacturing. We report on the results and insights from the first two years of the project, and outline current work and next steps. © 2025 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

publication date

  • January 1, 2025