PiE – Processes in Events: Interconnections in Ambient Assisted Living

by M. Vitali, B. Pernici

accepted for publication at

10th OTM/IFAC International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N’2015)

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), sensors distributed in the environment and contained in devices can provide essential information to be exploited. In this work we aim to exploit the advantage of a sensor enriched environment for supporting the processes of several cooperating organizations. Our approach, PiE (Processes in Events), aims to identify and exploit interconnections between processes, without demanding the restructuring of their inner structure. Starting from a set of events generated by sensors and business processes (BPs), we propose a methodology for multiple process annotation. From the analysis of the events correlations, we can discover interconnections among processes of several organizations involved in the same goal. An example with an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenario is studied, where several organizations cooperate to provide social and health care to a subject.