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Modelling Notations for IoT-Aware Business Processes: A Systematic Literature Review

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The term IoT-aware business processes refers to the interplay of business processes and Internet of Things concepts. Several studies have been carried out on such a topic, so a better awareness of the current state of knowledge can be beneficial. In particular, in a given application domain, this can help the choice of the most suitable modelling approach. This paper reports on the results of a systematic literature review with the aim of developing a map on modelling notations for IoT-aware business processes. It includes 48 research works from the main computer science digital libraries. We first present a description of the systematic literature review protocol we applied, then we report a list of available notations, discussing their main characteristics. A focus has been devoted to modelling tools and application scenarios. Finally, we provide a discussion on the capability of the identified modelling notations to represent requirements of scenarios enriched by IoT adequately.

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    All the details of our SLR are available at http://pros.unicam.it/BP-meet-IoT-2020.

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    For more details see the Graphical BPMN extension sheet available at http://pros.unicam.it/BP-meet-IoT-2020.

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Acknowledgement

The research has been partially supported by the MIUR projects PRIN “Fluidware” (A Novel Approach for Large-Scale IoT Systems, n. 2017KRC7KT) and “SEDUCE” (Designing Spatially Distributed Cyber-Physi-cal Systems under Uncertainty, n. 2017TWRCNB).

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Compagnucci, I., Corradini, F., Fornari, F., Polini, A., Re, B., Tiezzi, F. (2020). Modelling Notations for IoT-Aware Business Processes: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Del Río Ortega, A., Leopold, H., Santoro, F.M. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66498-5_9

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