Enabling situational awareness of business processes

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore the ways of integrating situational awareness into business process management for the purpose of realising hyper automated business processes. Such business processes will help improve their customer experiences, enhance the reliability of service delivery and lower the operational cost for a more competitive and sustainable business.Design/methodology/approachOntology has been deployed to establish the context modelling method, and the event handling mechanisms are developed on the basis of event calculus. An approach on performance of the proposed approach has been evaluation by checking the cost savings from the simulation of a large number of business processes.FindingsIn this research, the authors have formalised the context presentation for a business process with a focus on rules and entities to support context perception; proposed a system architecture to illustrate the structure and constitution of a supporting system for intelligent and situation aware business process management; developed real-time event elicitation and interpretation mechanisms to operationalise the perception of contextual dynamics and real-time responses; and evaluated the applicability of the proposed approaches and the performance improvement to business processes.Originality/valueThis paper presents a framework covering process context modelling, system architecture and real-time event handling mechanisms to support situational awareness of business processes. The reported research is based on our previous work on radio frequency identification-enabled applications and context-aware business process management with substantial extension to process context modelling and process simulation.

Improvement of Smart Farm by using IoT for Ornamental Fishes and Aquatic Animals Store

Ornamental fishes and aquatic animals have long been popular pets that can be easily bought and maintained. In contrast, it is not an easy task for a store that sells or a farming farm. These fish need to be well-kept to survive before customers come to buy. But it is unlikely that these fish will be looked after thoroughly, especially the issue of water quality used in fish farming or store. IoT can help operators manage and maintain water quality automatically instead of a human. This paper proposes to develop and improve the aquarium system maintenance automatically by using IoT and sensors devices. The ESP32 board is used to control the aquarium system and sent the alert message which is related to the critical situation and event handling action to farmer or entrepreneur on social media in real-time monitoring. All data from sensors are kept in microSD and central server. User can config, adjust the threshold value, and control the aquarium system directly. The developed aquarium system has high efficiency with accuracy value at 98.75%. It helps and automatically improves the water quality for the ornamental fishes and aquatic animals at the stores and smart farms.

Techniques of the tactile body: A cultural phenomenology of toddlers and mobile touchscreens

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped with and through the interfaces, materiality and mobility of haptic media. This article explores these embodied dimensions of young children’s mobile media use, drawing on research from (1) ethnographic observation of young children’s play practices in family homes, (2) analysis of videos of young children’s tactile media interaction shared on YouTube and (3) analysis of user interface (UI) and mobile app developer literature, such as the ‘Event Handling Guide for iOS’, which encodes touchscreen interaction through the design constraints and possibilities of gesture input techniques. Taking as its starting point Marcel Mauss’ famous reflection on body techniques, this article draws on past and present research on mobile technologies, tactility and everyday life, to explore what might be involved in developing a ‘cultural phenomenology’ of mobile touchscreens. This research and analysis reveals the emergence of what we term a haptic habitus or cultivation of embodied dispositions for touchscreen conduct and competence.