BPACC: A Business Process Aware Architecture for Intent-Based Orchestration Across the Compute Continuum
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Orchestration frameworks for the Compute Continuum focus on hardware scheduling and network offloading. They provide no mechanism to interpret high-level business requirements such as data sovereignty constraints or service-level objectives expressed in business process terms. Closing this gap relies on manual translations which is prone to errors. We propose BPACC (Business Process Aware Computing Continuum), an architecture that introduces a transversal Business Process Layer over the standard continuum infrastructure. BPACC provides a design-time pipeline that automatically constructs a semantic Capability Catalog from deployed services and enriches a BPMN model with continuum-aware profiles. At runtime, four components: a Business Intent Converter, a Business Process Execution Engine, a Business Policy Repository, and a Business Communication Bus, translate BPMN task activations into typed execution intents, enforce governance policies before workloads reach the scheduler, and resolve physical placement autonomously. We formalize the Capability Profile as the semantic bridge between business tasks and continuum services and establish an Architectural Compliance Guarantee by design: no non-compliant artifact can reach the infrastructure scheduler. BPACC is validated through a qualitative architectural analysis and a detailed conceptual walk-through of a business workflow spanning a modeled three-tier continuum (Endpoint, Edge, and Cloud) under GDPR constraints.
Institutions: Devoteam (Norway), Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204787473