ICEIMT'04
The fourth International Conference on Enterprise Integration and
Modeling Technologies (ICEIMT’04) has been held together with the workshop
on Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing (DIISM)
at the University of Toronto, Canada, on October 9-11, 2004. The conference
was attended by about 60 people from around the world. A total of 33 papers
covered enterprise architectures, models, languages, ontologies, human
systems, standardisation and different applications in the area of enterprise
integration.
Standardization for enterprise integration
and interoperability was addressed by 5 papers focusing on Frameworks,
architectures, models and modelling languages:
Richard, principles for construction and use of enterprise architecture
frameworks, including the aspect of interoperability of enterprise models
as a foundation for model interoperability;
Kosanke, standards on framework and modelling languages;
Shorter, thoughts on formal representation of models and model
languages;
Chen et al, the relations between work of the European ATHENA
project and the standards on frameworks and modelling languages; and Richard
et al, current work in standardisation and related activities aiming
on new standards on interoperability of processes and models.
Different topics on Enterprise Integration
relating to enterprise frameworks, architectures, models and modelling
languages have been discussed in 10 papers:
Goranson, semantic distance between intended and perceived meaning
- a problem of common understanding in the area of process and model interchange;
Bernus & Kalpic, role of knowledge categories in knowledge
sharing processes and proposal for extensions to previous work;
Berio, further enhancements to UEML (Unified Enterprise Modelling
Language) starting from the result of the European UEML project presenting
basic theories as well as current improvements based on a data integration
perspective;
Schonherr, adaptability as the main target to solve the problem
of enterprise architecture sustainability through a step by step multi
service integration architecture for handling internal charging routines,
service monitoring and service life cycle management and presenting a prototype
of a service management module;
Noran, collaborative networked organisations (CNO) life cycle
meta methodology for integrating diverse CNO creation and operation knowledge;
Schmitt et al, framework for appraisal, design and simulation
of e-business transactions;
Giachetti et al,research framework to investigate measures of
enterprise integration types like connectivity, information sharing, interoperability,
coordination, and alignment, which allows to identify technology and/or
enterprise integration method best suited in a given situation;
Li & Williams, the modified definition of Enterprise Integration
through studying and reclassifying different approaches based on recent
results from the use of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture has
lead to theories of descriptiveness and prescriptiveness supporting the
newly established concept of Approach 2 Architectures as well as their
general requirements;
Molina et al, the underlying principles and challenges for enterprise
modelling and integration, and its impact on enterprise networking to establish
a coherent vision for future research;
Mendez, on strengthening the enterprise adaptation to changing
markets focusing on the integration between strategic planning and business
processes, as documented in CEN/ISO 19439 and 19440.
Aspects of Human Systems have been described
by 4 authors:
Weston, development of a conceptual model of manufacturing enterprises
which is based on the characterisation of enterprise processes like process
classes, resource system types, product flows, and organisational views;
exemplifying general interoperability needs and to highlight deficiencies
in current enterprise modelling and enterprise integration, addressing
specifically the modelling of human resources; Mausberg, team environment
constituents and a proposal of an educational model/framework to better
foster a team environment aimed on achieving success of projects or business
processes.
Ponis & Koronis, interdisciplinary approach of the education
system’s strategic planning process, leading to a proposal of a high-level
reference model for Human Supply Chain (HSC) integration; and
Byer & Weston, new model of the team systems engineering
life cycle, which includes four main groupings of activities corresponding
to: ‘design’, ‘build’, ‘operate’ and ‘maintain’ life cycle phases through
which a typical team system progresses.
The
subject of Ontology was covered by 3 papers, which present different
topics:
Ohren, an architecture framework ontology providing characteristics
for comparing enterprise architecture frameworks, and presenting results
from the comparison of six existing frameworks (FEAF - US Federal Government,
DoD AF - US Department of Defense, TEAF of US Department of Treasury, TOGAF,
of OMG) GERAM of IFAC/IFIP Task Force and Zachman);
Gruninger, applying ontologies to semantic integration through
the process specification language PSL;
Huang & Fox, proposing knowledge provenance (KP) to address
the problem about how to determine the validity and origin of information/knowledge
on the web.
Another 11 papers presented different applications in the area of
enterprise integration:
Chapurlat et al, work in progress, which aims at associating
a systemic reference modelling approach with formal verification concepts
in order to improve the user’s risk assessment toolbox to be used in manufacturing
processes;
Nishioka, object model for planning and scheduling integration
in system development on discrete manufacturing, dealing with frequent
changes of the market being much more agile than the traditional models
for production management;
Bézivin et al, some insights into transformations between
some specific Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) particularly relevant to
Business-to-Business (B2B) applications;
Bischoff & Graupner,3-D laser scanning providing an optimum
solution for quick, simple and realistic data acquisition for exact and
consistent 3-D factory and equipment models using new development of object
recognition in unordered and incomplete laser scan point clouds;
Weisman,overview about the e-Government implementation process
in the Canadian government;
Molina et al,the implementation of Business Process Management
based on a Reference Framework based on Enterprise Integration Engineering
concepts. The latter includes the following components: strategy definition
(competitive, supply chain, operational), performance evaluation system,
process design/re-design, and enabling technologies;
Ortiz et al, landscape of current problems in Enterprise Engineering
and Integration, the strategies, solutions and vision about future trends;
Schmidt & Braun, development of an appropriate business
model associated with B2B transactions, designed according to the newly
introduced ebXML standards, thereby achieving a better definition of the
economic value associated with a B2B transaction;
Jagannathan, reports on the different succeeded and failed approaches
for enterprise integration used in the field of healthcare over the past
decade, ending with the new approach just launched through the Health Level
7 standards organization with support from the Health and Human Services
in the US;
Wattky & Neubert,process optimisation using both the supply
chain operation reference (SCOR) model and the business process reengineering
methodology (BPR);
Berger et al, two approaches aiming at overcoming interoperability
barriers arising in communication process among humans and machines: an
ontological approach, which focuses on computer supported human collaboration
and human-machine interaction by means of natural languages, and an approach
for machine data exchange and sharing, applying standards as highly extruded
common knowledge (paper not presented).
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INTREROP
Workshop at EDOC 2005An INTEROP Dissemination Workshop addressing alignment
issues of IT solutions with business and IT aspects of inter-enterprise
collaboration was held at the EDOC 2005 Conference at Enschede, The Netherlands
on September 19, 2005 . Read more
in the workshop report.
IFAC
World Congress 2005
The 16th IFAC World Congress will be held in Prague,
Czech
Republic, from July 4 to July 8, 2005. The Congress will be
a good opportunity for presenting new results and directions of Automatic
Control theory, technology and applications. As such, it mainly will concentrate
on the following key topics:
- Emphasis on invited lectures including plenaries, surveys and tutorials
- Industry participation promotion
- Attract young people to study and work in the field
During the IFAC World Congress, an Invited Session, is organized by the IFAC Technical Area 5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking” and sponsored by the INTEROP-NoE (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software, FP6-IST-508011 www.interop-noe.org), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission, that regroups more than 50 research organisations working in areas related to Enterprise interoperability.
Fore more information visit www.ifac.cz
INTEROP-ESA'2005The First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprises Software and Applications, February 22-25, 2005, Geneva, Switzerland is organised by the INTEROP-NoE (FP6-IST-508011) and supported by IFIP.
Conference Scope
Interoperability in enterprise applications can be defined as the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the customer or user. The possibility to interact and exchange information with internal and external collaborators is a key issue in the enterprise sector. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and services quickly, at lower cost, while maintaining higher levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is considered achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account the semantics. It is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared business references.
The INTEROP-ESA conference aims at bringing together researches, users and practitioners dealing with different issues of Interoperability of Enterprise Applications and Software. The conference will focus on interoperability related research areas ranging like Enterprise Modeling to define interoperability requirements, Architecture and Platforms to provide implementation frameworks and Ontologies to define interoperability semantics in the enterprise.
The INTEROP-ESA'2005 conference also encourages the submission of invited sessions with sets of six invited papers on well-defined subjects of current interest belonging to the scope of the conference.
An invited session will be accepted only if the session and its 6 papers are accepted. Accepted papers of a non-accepted invited session will be transferred into regular sessions
Conference Topics
- Papers are invited in the areas of interoperability, presenting original work and not previously published from academics and professionals. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:Enterprise and networked enterprises Modeling Methods, Tools and frameworks
- Methods, Models and Tools for intra and inter-organizations interoperability
- Interoperable Inter-enterprise Workflow Systems
- Knowledge Management, Metadata and ontologies for interoperability solutions
- Requirements Engineering for Interoperable Enterprise ontologies
- Design principles and patterns for interoperability
- Good practices and solutions for interoperability development
- Standards for enterprise integration and interoperability
- Theory and practice of modeling languages
- Management of Distributed Enterprise Models
- Synchronisation and Interoperability of Distributed Enterprise Models
- Support of Co-operative Work
- Enterprise Applications Analysis and semantic elicitation
- Architectures and platforms for interoperability
- Ubiquity, Mobility, Open Architectures and large scale interoperability
- Model Driven Architectures
- Experiments and case studies of systems’ interoperability
- Interoperability of autonomous systems
- Service oriented Architectures
- Interoperability of Digital Rights Management Systems