Digital Twins of Business Processes: A Research Manifesto
Modern organizations necessitate continuous business processes improvement to maintain efficiency, adaptability, and competitiveness. In the last few years, the Internet of Things, via the...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Service Discovery: Chunking Strategies and Benchmarking
Integrating multiple (sub-)systems is essential to create advanced Information Systems. Difficulties mainly arise when integrating dynamic environments, e.g., the integration at design time of not...
Advanced System Integration: Analyzing OpenAPI Chunking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Integrating multiple (sub-)systems is essential to create advanced Information Systems (ISs). Difficulties mainly arise when integrating dynamic environments across the IS lifecycle. A traditional...
Counter-terrorism in cyber-physical spaces: Best practices and technologies from the state of the art
Context: The demand for protection and security of physical spaces and urban areas increased with the escalation of terroristic attacks in recent years. We envision with the proposed...
Towards Intelligent Robotic Process Automation for BPMers
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a fast-emerging automation technology that sits between the fields of Business Process Management (BPM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and allows...
Automated Discovery of Process Models from Event Logs: Review and Benchmark
Process mining allows analysts to exploit logs of historical executions of business processes to extract insights regarding the actual performance of these processes. One of the most widely...
The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: A Manifesto
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of connected devices collecting and exchanging data over the Internet. These things can be artificial or natural, and interact as autonomous agents...
The TESTMED Project Experience. Process-aware Enactment of Clinical Guidelines through Multimodal Interfaces
Healthcare is one of the largest business segments in the world and is a critical area for future growth. In order to ensure efficient access to medical and patient-related information, hospitals...
Cognitive Business Process Management for Adaptive Cyber-Physical Processes
In the era of Big Data and Internet-of-Things (IoT), all real-world environments are gradually becoming cyber-physical (e.g., emergency management, healthcare, smart manufacturing, etc.), with the...
Is there a future for models in the LLM era?
In an era where software development is deeply tied with Large Language Models, does Model Driven Engineering (MDE) still make sense? This raises the question of the extent to which MDE can be...