Acknowledgment
Many thanks are due to Gerrit Muller, Buskerud University College and the Embedded
Systems Innovations by TNO, for joining us in a one-day intense discussion on
architecture methodology and architecture propaedeutics in January 2013. This event
helped us with assessing the quality of our work and also it opened our eyes to ways of
improving the accessibility of this document with rather simple measures. Many of of
the structural changes in this manuscript were triggered by our discussion with Gerrit
Muller. One of these changes is the introduction of a ―red-thread‖ example that now nits
the many parts of the IoT ARM together.
Special thanks goes to Miguel-Ángel Monjas from Ericsson who, as part of the
BUTLER project, did a deep analysis of the ARM, also taking into account related
documents from other IoT-A work packages. He provided a large number of review
comments, including for example the proposal to provide some examples for
interactions between applications and different functional components to realize a use
case, which we have taken up as part of the Guidelines section.
We would also like to thank Cosmin-Septimiu Nechifor from Siemens who greatly
supported our reverse mapping activities in the context of the IERC AC1 discussions at
NEC in Heidelberg in April 2013. Also, we would like to thank Ivana Trickovic from SAP
who guided our BPMN extensions in a way that they have a chance of becoming part
of the official standard. Patrick Garrell and Yves David from Groupe Casino have
contributed significantly to the final definition of the cold chain use case that
implements many of the features and architectural constructs developed in IoT-A.
Furthermore, we would like to thank Stefan Ferber for the opportunity of organizing a
workshop at Bosch in Waiblingen. The attendees from different Bosch departments
engaged in interesting discussions and valueable feedback towards the ARM.
Last but not least we would like to thank the former IoT-A participants, Ralf Kernchen,
Martin Strohbach, Stephan Haller and Alexandru Serbanati for their valueable
contributions.