GET Controller and UNICORN: Event-driven Process Execution and Monitoring in Logistics

Abstract Especially in logistics, process instances often interact with their realworld environment during execution. This is challenging due to the fact that events from this environment are often heterogeneous, lack process instance information, and their import and visualisation in traditional process engines is not sufficiently supported. To address these challenges, we implemented GET Controller and UNICORN, two systems that together enable event-driven process execution and monitoring. Their application is shown for a logistics scenario. 1 Overview Process instances often interact with a real-world environment during their execution. This especially holds true in the context of logistics, where transportation activities geographically move goods around the globe. Thus, the monitoring of such processes should leverage on the observation of phenomena that happen outside the typical scope of Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), in order to have a clear understanding of their...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: BPM
• Authors: Anne Baumgrass, Claudio Di Ciccio, Remco M. Dijkman, Marcin Hewelt, Jan Mendling, Andreas Meyer 0001, Shaya Pourmirza, Mathias Weske, Tsun Yin Wong
• Keywords: BPM 2015, Business