Ubiquitous business processes are the new generation of processes that pervade the physical space and interact with their environments using a minimum of human involvement. Although they are now widely deployed in the industry, their deployment is still ad hoc. They are implemented after an arbitrary modeling phase or no modeling phase at all. The absence of a solid modeling phase backing up the implementation generates many loopholes that are stressed in the literature. Here, we tackle the issue of modeling ubiquitous business processes. We propose patterns to represent the recent ubiquitous computing features. These patterns are the outcome of an analysis we conducted in the field of human-computer interaction to examine how the features are actually deployed. The patterns' understandability, ease-of-use, usefulness, and completeness are examined via a user experiment. The results indicate that these four indexes are on the positive track. Hence, the patterns may be the backbone of ubiquitous business process modeling in industrial applications.

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迈向基于 uBPMN 的模式来对无处不在的业务流程进行建模


无处不在的业务流程是新一代的流程，它们遍布物理空间并通过最少的人工参与与环境进行交互。尽管它们现在在业界得到了广泛部署，但它们的部署仍然是临时的。它们是在任意建模阶段或根本没有建模阶段之后实现的。由于缺乏支持实施的实体建模阶段，会产生许多文献中强调的漏洞。在这里，我们解决对普遍存在的业务流程进行建模的问题。我们提出了代表最近普遍存在的计算特征的模式。这些模式是我们在人机交互领域进行的分析的结果，以检查这些功能的实际部署方式。通过用户实验来检查模式的可理解性、易用性、有用性和完整性。结果表明，这四项指标均处于正轨。因此，这些模式可能是工业应用中普遍存在的业务流程建模的支柱。