Abstract
The wireless sensor network represents distributed environment that consists of sensors and actuators to monitor and control real-world objects and devices. Web services and service-oriented architecture are fundamental elements to provide on-demand applications. The integration of business processes with wireless sensor network and service-oriented architecture will result in a better alignment of enterprise applications. This article uses multiple-domain matrix extensions called the business process model and notation–multiple-domain matrix to analyze structures of and relations among processes modeled in the business process model and notation with wireless sensor network elements and services. By applying an organization-activity multiple-domain matrix partitioning algorithm, different organizations and coupled activities with cyclic relations are identified to provide process structure information in a matrix perspective, which promote business process analysis and optimization. The partitioning analysis results can be used to form an initial software architecture which includes subsystems or packages so that the architecture-centric software engineering practice can be applied to help the development of wireless sensor network applications. Two process examples of wireless sensor network applications were used and analyzed for illustration and validation purposes.
Highlights
Various organizations have different business processes to cope with commercial tasks and project problems
The business process model and notation (BPMN)-multiple-domain matrix (MDM) can be used to identify the elements of processes modeled in the BPMN and capture the relations among those elements for further process analysis
This article defines extensions of the MDM, called the BPMN-MDM, to analyze structures of and relations among processes modeled in the BPMN with wireless sensor network (WSN) elements
Summary
Various organizations have different business processes to cope with commercial tasks and project problems. To analyze the structure of and relations among processes, this study extended the MDM for describing elements and relations among business processes modeled using BPMN notations. According to ubiquitous business process model and notation (uBPMN) in Yousfi et al.[1] and WSN task in Tranquillini et al.,[2] we provide activity DSM representation of WSN elements for modeling and analyzing business processes of WSN applications. This article proposes an organization-activity MDM partitioning algorithm to analyze the processes modeled in the BPMN. We describe background information in section ‘‘Background work,’’ detail the main features of this work in section ‘‘MDM extensions using BPMN and WSN elements,’’ verify the BPMN-MDM extensions using workflow patterns in section ‘‘Verification of BPMN-MDM using workflow patterns,’’ show an example demonstrating the proposed approach in section ‘‘Process analysis of WSN applications,’’ discuss the related work in section ‘‘Related work,’’ and summarize the benefits and present the conclusion in section ‘‘Conclusion.’’
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