Internet of Things Architecture

and undeployed from the execution component. As we can see in the figure, the
execution of the process involves the Service Orchestration FC in order to
gather the appropriate services and then also the IoT Service FG, as the
services are then directly called from the Process Execution.

C.1.4 Interface Definition

In this section, the interface definitions between the Process Modeling and
Process Execution components are described.

Interface Definition: operateGUI

Input:
Illustrative
Action

Calling

Component

Called

Component

Name of the

functionality

Parameters Prerequisite

OperateGUI Application
/ Human
Actor

Process

Modelling

OperateGUI

Output:

Functionality
Output

Impacted

Components

Return value Exception

Updated
Process Model
(internally)

Process

Modelling

Process Model Invalid model

Interface Definition: deploy (Model)

Input:
Illustrative
Action

Calling

Component

Called

Component

Name of the

functionality

Parameters Prerequisite

Deploy
process
models to
execution
environments

Process

Modelling

Process

Execution

Deploy Model (the

process

model)

The model is

created in

the

modelling

component

Output:
Functionality
Output

Impacted

Components

Return value Exception

Success return
value

Process

Modelling

Success return

value

Invalid model