Discovered Process-Aware IoT Models Through Semantic Enrichment

Business process management (BPM) is a popular approach that has attracted the attention of many researchers all through the years. BPM has evolved into Business Process Intelligence to provide more intelligence to the management of business processes. Process mining is one of the newest subfields of business process intelligence, which looks for, automatically, and validates and improves business processes. Given the importance of the Internet of Things, we presented contributions aimed at improving business process management in an IoT environment. In this context, the absence of modeling notions that define Internet of Things elements as parts of a business process model is clearly an important obstacle to autonomous business process detection. In this study, we provided an expanded BPMN ontology model for IoT that served as the foundation for a semantic framework.