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的无处不在业务流程建模模式

无处不在的业务流程是新一代的流程，它可以在不占用任何人力的情况下，遍及物理空间并与其环境进行交互。尽管它们现在已经在行业中广泛部署，但是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施的。没有可靠的建模阶段来支持该实现会产生许多漏洞，这些漏洞在文献中都有所强调。在这里，我们解决了对普遍存在的业务流程进行建模的问题。我们提出了一些模式来代表最新的无处不在的计算功能。这些模式是我们在人机交互领域进行的分析结果，以检查功能的实际部署方式。模式的可理解性，易用性，有用性，通过用户实验来检查其完整性和完整性。结果表明这四个指数处于正轨道上。因此，这些模式可能是工业应用程序中普遍存在的业务流程建模的基础。