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A BPMN-Based Approach for IoT Systems Engineering

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The management of IoT systems is often challenging, requiring advanced skills, especially in ensuring loosely coupled coordination of heterogeneous devices. Model-driven approaches facilitate modeling, enacting, and monitoring interacting IoT devices’ behavior. Indeed, the state of the art provides contributions addressing crucial aspects of the model-driven approach applied to IoT systems. This chapter explores how to exploit the BPMN notation to manage IoT systems, focusing on a case study concerning a smart agriculture IoT system. Finally, we point to possible directions for future work.

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    Flavio Corradini, Fabrizio Fornari, Sara Pettinari, Barbara Re & Lorenzo Rossi

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Corradini, F., Fornari, F., Pettinari, S., Re, B., Rossi, L., Tiezzi, F. (2024). A BPMN-Based Approach for IoT Systems Engineering. In: Zambonelli, F., Fortino, G., Re, B., Viroli, M. (eds) Fluidware. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62146-8_5

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