Carbon-Aware Process Execution for Green Business Process Management

Philipp Hehnle, Maximilian Behrendt, Luc Weinbrecht, Carl Corea

2024

Abstract

Traditional business process management (BPM) focuses on the improvement of performance dimensions such as time, costs, and quality. Ecological aspects are usually not considered as an equal performance dimension. In this context, Green BPM approaches have been proposed to strengthen the awareness among people and organisations about the impact of business processes on the climate. However, little research in Green BPM covers the runtime of digitised processes, or provides concrete means to reduce carbon emissions during process execution. Therefore, we present an approach for carbon-aware process execution, which allows to automatically postpone energy-intensive activities to times when energy with low CO 2 emissions, e.g. solar energy, is better available. Importantly, our approach considers and complies with external regulations such as Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when postponing activities. Our approach is implemented in Camunda and has been evaluated in interviews with domain experts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hehnle P., Behrendt M., Weinbrecht L. and Corea C. (2024). Carbon-Aware Process Execution for Green Business Process Management. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 659-666. DOI: 10.5220/0012557100003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Philipp Hehnle and Maximilian Behrendt and Luc Weinbrecht and Carl Corea},
title={Carbon-Aware Process Execution for Green Business Process Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={659-666},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012557100003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - Carbon-Aware Process Execution for Green Business Process Management
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Hehnle P.
AU - Behrendt M.
AU - Weinbrecht L.
AU - Corea C.
PY - 2024
SP - 659
EP - 666
DO - 10.5220/0012557100003690
PB - SciTePress