LABPMN: Location-Aware Business Process Modeling and Notation

The combination of IoT and BPM enables new possibilities for the use of contextual information during the modeling and execution of process models. Nevertheless, many approaches for the use of location data only exist as concepts, and most existing extensions for BPMN do not fully use the potential gained through IoT. In this paper, we introduce a novel BPMN Extension for location awareness that is, conceptually well-defined and adheres to the BPMN meta-model, and can be used both graphically, and during the execution of a process. We introduce two new main elements: The possibility of dynamically assigning or allocating actors to one or a number of tasks, and different location-based events to be able to react to location changes of active and passive resources during process execution.