CaPE - Context-adaptive Process Execution in Industrial Environments
Project Description
In an emerging cyber-physical world, process management technology faces new challenges regarding the digitization of business processes. For example, the construction of pharma packaging machines requires the execution of thousands of data- and knowledge-intensive tasks. The business processes coordinating these tasks need to be aligned with the physical world, which raises demanding requirements for any process-aware information system, e.g., in respect to process flexibility in general and process variability support in particular.
Due to the dissemination of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in many areas (e.g. manufacturing), devices and systems are equipped with numerous sensors producing an enormous amount of data. Although these sensor data constitute valuable contextual data of the business processes running in a cyber-physical world, there is a lack of integration between the digital processes executed within a process-aware information system and these cyber-physical data. As a consequence, a huge gap between the real-world processes, taking place in the cyber-physical world, and their digital counterparts run within a process-aware information system might exist.
The CaPE project aims to support digital processes in a cyber-physical environment by enabling a tighter integration of these digital processes with physical contextual data. In particular, CaPE shall provide sophisticated concepts, methods and technologies that enable intelligent data acquisition across pervasive networks, advanced data analytics, and context- as well as process-aware information systems.
As application scenario CaPE will consider predictive maintenance processes. In the context of the latter, service technicians are supported by a context-aware, adaptive process execution across their work tasks.
Context-aware Process Injection (CaPI) Screencast
Project Details

Project Team
Ulm University | |
![]() | ![]() Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems |
![]() | ![]() Ulm University, Institute of Media Informatics |
![]() | ![]() Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems |
![]() | ![]() Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems |
Uhlmann Pac-Systeme | |
![]() | Kevin Sommer Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG |
![]() | Alexander Reisser Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG |
![]() | Jörg Riekenbrauck Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG |
Project Partners
University of Ulm, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
Duration
The CaPE project has been running since 2016.
Publications
2020
Kammerer, Klaus and Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred (2020) Context-Aware Querying and Injection of Process Fragments in Process-Aware Information Systems. In: 24th Int'l Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2020), Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC'20), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 5 - 8 October 2020, IEEE Computer Society Press. (Accepted for Publication) | ![]() |
Kammerer, Klaus and Pryss, Rüdiger and Hoppenstedt, Burkhard and Sommer, Kevin and Reichert, Manfred (2020) Process-Driven and Flow-Based Processing of Industrial Sensor Data. Sensors, 20(18), MDPI, 10.3390/s20185245. | ![]() |
2019
Kammerer, Klaus and Hoppenstedt, Burkhard and Pryss, Rüdiger and Stökler, Steffen and Allgaier, Johannes and Reichert, Manfred (2019) Anomaly Detections for Manufacturing Systems Based on Sensor DataInsights into Two Challenging Real-World Production Settings. Sensors, 19(24), MDPI, 10.3390/s19245370. | ![]() |
2018
Kammerer, Klaus and Pryss, Rüdiger and Sommer, Kevin and Reichert, Manfred (2018) Towards Context-aware Process Guidance in Cyber-Physical Systems with Augmented Reality. In: 4th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-Adaptive, Collaborative, and Cyber Physical Systems (RESACS'18), RE Workshops 2018, Banff, Canada, 20-24 Aug 2018 , IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 44-51. | ![]() |
2017
Kammerer, Klaus and Mundbrod, Nicolas and Reichert, Manfred (2017) Demonstrating Context-aware Process Injection with the CaPI Tool. In: Proceedings of the BPM Demo Session 2017 (BPMD 2017), co-located with the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2017), Barcelona, September 10-15, 2017, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1920, CEUR-WS.org. | ![]() |
2015
Mundbrod, Nicolas and Grambow, Gregor and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Context-Aware Process Injection: Enhancing Process Flexibility by Late Extension of Process Instances. In: 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2015), Rhodes, Greece, 28 - 30 October 2015, LNCS 9415, Springer, pp. 127-145. | ![]() |
Master & Bachelor Theses
2020
Schwer, Dominik (2020) Privacy Threat Modeling with LINDDUN in the Context of the General Data Protection Regulation. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
2019
Biro, Kristijan (2019) Objekterkennung mit ARKit und TensorFlow: Anwendungsfälle, Konzepte, Evaluierung. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Jäckle, Michael (2019) Semantic Machine Twins: Use Cases, Concepts, Prototype. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Jäckle, Michael (2019) Semantic Machine Twins: Use Cases, Concepts, Prototype. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Palazzolo, Ivo (2019) Konzept und Implementierung eines Modellierungswerkzeugs zur Sensordatenverarbeitung. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Reiner, Jens (2019) Chatbots zur Unterstützung von industriellen Serviceprozessen. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Stenske, Irina (2019) Konzeption und Implementierung von Multi-Device Interaktionen zur Unterstützung industrieller Wartungsprozesse. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
2018
Bihlmaier, Sven (2018) Konzept und Implementierung eines Frameworks zur Verwaltung von Digital Twins. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Bötticher, Moritz (2018) Erhebung, Modellierung und Implementierung von Wareneingangs- und Qualitätssicherungsprozessen auf Basis von Liferay Enterprise Portal. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Jann, Julius (2018) Fast Transfer of 3D Models in Web Configuration Systems. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
von Schwerin, Clemens (2018) Time Series Analysis in the Context of the Internet of Things: Classic Solutions vs New Approaches for Typical Problem Situations. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
2017
Göster, Manuel (2017) Concept and Implementation of a Factory Simulation. Bachelor thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Roschat, Christian (2017) Augmented Reality for Machine Maintenance Applications. Master thesis, Ulm University. | ![]() |
Sommer, Kevin (2017) Evaluierung und Implementierung einer Plattform für divergente Daten im pharmazeutischen Umfeld. Master thesis, Universität Ulm. | ![]() |