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Since ITU-T announced Internet-of-Things (IoT) in 2005, we are witness enormous flooding of things into our everyday lives end entering the fourth industrial revolution where smart autonomous devices are wirelessly connected to a cloud and kept on a coordinated mission to reach an objective. For example, a just-in-time production comprising flexibly configured smart workstations is supplied with system components from 1st- and 2nd tier suppliers to construct trucks. Gartner predicts that connected things will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. Recently, a novel software-engineering paradigm has evolved: Internet-of-Everything (IoE) that comprises all existing and future living- and non-living things over the Internet that should be able to connect at any time, cooperate, and learn from each other. The questions that arise are: How do these new opportunities affect Business Process Management (BPM)? What are the gaps in the existing state of the art in research and industry? How to manage security and trust for IoE configurations? |
