Toward Semantic Framework for Internet of Things-Aware Business Process Discovery

The Internet of Things (IoT) is often considered a disruptive technology [1]. By using smart devices, it has the potential to change everyone's daily life. With large sets of advanced sensors and actuators, it can create opportunities for commercial organizations to establish new business models. A fundamental barrier to automatic business process sensing is the lack of modeling concepts that explicitly express Internet elements as components of a business process model. Thus, there is a clear need to model these processes associated with IoT elements in a formal and unambiguous manner. However, in the context of business processes, there is a lack of formalized and explicit descriptions of IoT elements, which hinders their effective modeling and management. This article proposes a semantic formalization of the business process management perspective in an IoT environment by proposing Extended BPMNO for IoT and Domain Ontology. It uses standard semantic technologies to give a semantic representation that allows us to describe concepts relating to the IoT and the elements of an executable business process described in BPMN.