ProAmbitIon: Online Process Conformance Checking with Ambiguities Driven by the Internet of Things Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • The ongoing digitization of processes in everyday life shows great potential for process automation, analysis, and optimization. However, digital traces of processes in the physical world, especially those involving human interactions, are often incomplete. This limits the possibilities for an automated process monitoring and analysis. ProAmbitIon proposes to use the Internet of Things (IoT) to bridge the gap between physical world process executions and their digital traces. In this project we leverage software-controlled sensors and actuators to enable a fine-grained monitoring and contextualization of process activities. Digital traces of executed processes can be created from and enriched with IoT data, and used for conformance checking to detect deviations¿even at runtime and without relying on a Business Process Management System (BPMS). In developing new approaches for IoT-driven process conformance checking, we also address the issue of potential ambiguities originating from 1) informal process descriptions and 2) the lack of process-related data in IoT data. The project is conducted using real-world scenarios from smart healthcare and smart manufacturing. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

publication date

  • January 1, 2023