This book questions the extent to which the Internet of Things (IoT) and business process management (BPM) paradigms can be combined. The authors discuss emerging challenges and intersections from a research and practitioner's perspective in terms of complex software systems development and process mining methods. The authors demonstrate that while the IoT and BPM have been regarded as separate topics in research and in practice, they strongly believe that, on the one hand, the management of IoT applications will greatly benefit from BPM concepts, methods, and technologies. And on the other hand, the IoT poses challenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current state of the art in the BPM field. Topics explored include behavior-centered design of IoT systems, event-log granularity for IoT process mining, process mining on sensor location event data, and process mining and robotics, among others. The book pertains to researchers, academics, and professionals working in the intersection of IoT and BPM.
Dr. Giancarlo Fortino (FIEEE’22) is Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology (China) and senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute. At UNICAL, he is Rector’s delegate to Int’l relations, chair of the PhD School in ICT, and director of the SPEME lab. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2024 in Computer Science by Clarivate, and has h-index=85 with about 30000 citations in GS. His research interests include wearable computing systems, Internet of Things, business process management, and cybersecurity. He is author of 700+ papers in top-level journals, conferences and series. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems, EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier journals and IEEE transactions. He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal Srl, a UNICAL spinoff developing IoT systems. Fortino is currently the Associate VP of Cybernetics of the IEEE SMC society.
Massimo Mecella holds a PhD in Computing Science and Engineering from SAPIENZA (earned on 21 January 2002). Currently he is associate professor in the School of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics of SAPIENZA, in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Sciences & Engineering ANTONIO RUBERTI (DIAG, formerly DIS - Department of Computer and Systems Sciences). He has recently achieved (April 2017) the Italian National Qualification (ASN) to Full Professor. From March 2005 to August 2006 he has been a Postdoc on Service Oriented Computing: Synthesis and Orchestration of Composite Services at DIS. In the winter semester 2005, he has been a temporary research assistant at CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security) and Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA, hosted by Elisa Bertino. From November 2002 to October 2004 he has been a research fellow in SAPIENZA (in the Latina campus). During the PhD period, in 1999 he has been internship student at Telcordia Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Morristown, New Jersey, USA, hosted by Amjad Umar, Paolo Missier and Francesco Caruso. He has given various tutorials on automatic composition of services, at INFWEST School 2007 (University of Jyvaskyla, Tampere, Finland), ICWS 2006, WWW 2005, ESWC 2005, ICSOC 2004. He has given the invited talk at ProGility 2008 @ WETICE 2008 on adaptivity in process management systems. He has given seminars on Service Oriented Computing and emergency management through process management systems on mobile devices at Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano (2006 and 2007, hosted by Barbara Pernici) and at Information Systems Institute of Wien University of Technology (2006, hosted by Schahram Dustdar). In 2012 he has been invited to give a seminar on Advanced User Interfaces, Services and Processes: Making Sense of All of Them Together at XEROX Europe Research Center (Grenoble,France), hosted by Gregorio Convertino and Antonietta Grasso. In 2008 he has given a seminar on Resources as Synchronizers, Rules as Resources for Adaptive Workflow in MANETs at Technische Universitat Berlin (Berlin, Germany) hosted by Hartmut Ehrig and Kathrin Hoffmann.
