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Matthias Ehrendorfer

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arXiv2026

Design and Implementation of Agentic Orchestrations and Orchestration of Agents

Agentic Business Process Management has gained momentum recently. The prospect is that the autonomy of AI agents, i.e., predominantly LLM-based agents, can be balanced with a certain level of robustness, tractability, and traceability through a combination with process technology. In this paper, we provide a classification framework for agentic orchestration options along properties such as task specificity, traceability and tractability, autonomy and reactivity, and correctness assurance and present qualitative decision criteria for realizations of different scenarios. We also provide metrics for the quantitative assessment of realization properties and show them through different agentic implementations of a predictive light sensing scenario. Altogether, this work aims at providing properties, criteria, and metrics for the design and implementation of agentic orchestrations and orchestration of agents.

cs.AI↗

arXiv2025

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs

Advances in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have prompted the integration of IoT devices with business processes (BPs) in many organizations across various sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare and smart spaces. The proliferation of IoT devices leads to the generation of large amounts of IoT data providing a window on the physical context of BPs, which facilitates the discovery of new insights about BPs using process mining (PM) techniques. However, to achieve these benefits, IoT data need to be combined with traditional process (event) data, which is challenging due to the very different characteristics of IoT and process data, for instance in terms of granularity levels. Recently, several data models were proposed to integrate IoT data with process data, each focusing on different aspects of data integration based on different assumptions and requirements. This fragmentation hampers data exchange and collaboration in the field of PM, e.g., making it tedious for researchers to share data. In this paper, we present a core model synthesizing the most important features of existing data models. As the core model is based on common requirements, it greatly facilitates data sharing and collaboration in the field. A prototypical Python implementation is used to evaluate the model against various use cases and demonstrate that it satisfies these common requirements.

cs.SE↗

arXiv2024

From Internet of Things Data to Business Processes: Challenges and a Framework

The IoT and Business Process Management (BPM) communities co-exist in many shared application domains, such as manufacturing and healthcare. The IoT community has a strong focus on hardware, connectivity and data; the BPM community focuses mainly on finding, controlling, and enhancing the structured interactions among the IoT devices in processes. While the field of Process Mining deals with the extraction of process models and process analytics from process event logs, the data produced by IoT sensors often is at a lower granularity than these process-level events. The fundamental questions about extracting and abstracting process-related data from streams of IoT sensor values are: (1) Which sensor values can be clustered together as part of process events?, (2) Which sensor values signify the start and end of such events?, (3) Which sensor values are related but not essential? This work proposes a framework to semi-automatically perform a set of structured steps to convert low-level IoT sensor data into higher-level process events that are suitable for process mining. The framework is meant to provide a generic sequence of abstract steps to guide the event extraction, abstraction, and correlation, with variation points for plugging in specific analysis techniques and algorithms for each step. To assess the completeness of the framework, we present a set of challenges, how they can be tackled through the framework, and an example on how to instantiate the framework in a real-world demonstration from the field of smart manufacturing. Based on this framework, future research can be conducted in a structured manner through refining and improving individual steps.

cs.SE↗

arXiv2019

Combining Conformance Checking and Classification of XES Log Data for the Manufacturing Domain

Currently, data collection on the shop floor is based on individual resources such as machines, robots, and Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs). There is a gap between this approach and manufacturing orchestration software that supervises the process of creating single products and controls the ressources' interactions. This creates the need to save resource-based data streams in databases, clean it, and then re-contextualize it, i.e., by connecting it to orders, batches, and single products. Looking at this data from a process-oriented analysis point of view enables new analysis prospects. This paper utilises these prospects in an experimental way by creating BPMN models for the manufacturing of two real-world products: (1) a low volume, high complexity lower-housing for a gas-turbine and (2) a high volume, low complexity, small tolerance valve lifter for a gas turbine. In contrast to the resource-based data collection, 30+ values are modeled into the BPMN models and enacted by a workflow engine, creating execution logs in the XES standard format. Conformance checks are carried out and interpreted for both scenarios and it is shown how existing classification and clustering techniques can be applied on the collected data in order to predict good and bad parts, ex-post and potentially at run-time.

cs.OH↗