Blockchain-based business process management (BPM) framework for service composition in industry 4.0

Wattana Viriyasitavat (), Li Xu (), Zhuming Bi () and Assadaporn Sapsomboon ()
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Wattana Viriyasitavat: Chulalongkorn University
Li Xu: Old Dominion University
Zhuming Bi: Purdue University Fort Wayne
Assadaporn Sapsomboon: Chulalongkorn University

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2020, vol. 31, issue 7, No 11, 1737-1748

Abstract: Abstract Business process management (BPM) aims to optimize business processes to achieve better system performance such as higher profit, quicker response, and better services. BPM systems in Industry 4.0 are required to digitize and automate business process workflows and support the transparent interoperations of service vendors. The critical bottleneck to advance BPM systems is the evaluation, verification, and transformation of trustworthiness and digitized assets. Most of BPM systems rely heavily on domain experts or third parties to deal with trustworthiness. In this paper, an automated BPM solution is investigated to select and compose services in open business environment, Blockchain technology (BCT) is explored and proposed to transfer and verify the trustiness of businesses and partners, and a BPM framework is developed to illustrate how BCT can be integrated to support prompt, reliable, and cost-effective evaluation and transferring of Quality of Services in the workflow composition and management.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; Business process management (BPM); Block-chain technology (BCT); Internet of things (IoT); Trustworthiness; Service selection and composition; Smart contracts; Quality of Services (QoS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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