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Business Processes in organizations usually involve real-world objects. A tight integration of these elements from the physical world into business process can improve process automation. This paper introduces a software architecture that allows this integration. The presented architecture is defined following an architectural process that decouples architectural concepts from technological solutions and stresses the relevance of automating the development process. Several case studies have been developped using the introduced architecture to experiment their benefits. In addition, modelling techniques have been used to automate the development of this kind of systems.
This work has been developed with the support of MEC under the project SESAMO TIN2007-62894 and cofinanced by FEDER.
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Giner, P., Pelechano, V. (2008). An Architecture to Automate Ambient Business System Development. In: Aarts, E., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5355. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89617-3_16
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