The workshop was held at the EADS Research Facilities, in Paris, France, on 2001-12-05/07, with an attendance of 19 people from academia and industry coming from France (4), Germany (6), Norway (2), South Africa (1), Spain (2), The Netherlands (1), USA (3).

This workshop was the first one of a series of four, held on issues in enterprise inter- and intra-organization integration with the aim to increase international consensus in both academia and industry. Attended by experts on knowledge management and business process modelling, the intentions are to achieve some level of consensus regarding drivers, barriers and enablers for knowledge exchange across cultural boundaries. The workshop had the following objectives:

• Identify requirements for knowledge management in inter- and intra-organizational environments
• Review and assess available technologies
• Identify missing parts of technologies

The presentations covered the fields of knowledge management , enterprise engineering and business process modelling addressing related standards, tools, the impact of agent systems, ontologies, modelling language as well as results from applying knowledge management in industry and through semantic nets. See list of papers below . Abstracts of most of the presentations will be put on the CIMOSA web site.

Three working groups addressed the following themes: A Merged Future for Knowledge Management and Enterprise Modelling (WG1), Relations between Knowledge Management and Business Process Modelling including the Role of Ontologies (WG2) and Managing Processes and Knowledge in Inter-organisational Environments (WG3). The workgroup discussions have been complemented by several plenary feedback sessions on workgroup results and subsequent alignments.
Some of the reports are also available at the KnowledgeBoard Discussion Forum, under 'Business Processes' / Inter- and Intra Organisation Integration, placed  in the internet at http://forum.knowledgeboard.com/~KnowledgeBoard.  Experts are encouraged to review and comment on the current version. The comments will be consolidated and included in the final version, which will be presented at the ICEIMT’02 at Valencia, Spain, 2002-04-24/26.

WG1: The report (available as a local file WSIWG1V3.htm ) identifies problems and limits for both enterprise integration/enterprise modelling and knowledge management and defines short-, medium- and long-term synergies and potential solutions. Short term: deductive trust and process situating. Medium term: fast based decision making. Long term: self organizing enterprises.
Note: Please, deliver your comments to the above report in the Knowledgeboard Discussion Forum under 'Business Processes' / 'Inter- and Intra Organisation Integration' , at http://forum.knowledgeboard.com/~KnowledgeBoard

WG2: The report will become available on an URL tbd. WG2 has focused on mapping the process of enterprise modelling to the one of knowledge management and thereby identifying similarities and differences. The role of ontologies for semantic unification will be analysed further in the forthcoming report.

WG3: The report will become available on an URL tbd. Discussions in WG3 have focussed on guidelines for enterprise modelling, scope and goals, architectures and infrastructures, approaches to implementation. Examples of industrial solutions as well as tool strategies have been subjects of the working group discussions as well.

List of papers presented in the workshop plenary:

1. Standards on Enterprise Integration and Interoperability: A Survey, David Chen, University of Bordeaux, France
2. Enterprise Navigator, Niek du Preez, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
3. Ontological Commitment and Participative Simulation in the Knowledge Creating Enterprise, Jan Goossenaerts, Eindhooven Technische University, The Netherlands
4. ICEIMT evolution, Federation into Agent Systems, Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta, USA
5. Seamless Knowledge Management - Synchronisation of People, Processes and IT, Peter Heisig, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
6. Consensus Ontologies: Reconciling Enterprise Semantics, Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
7. On knowledge management, Bernhard Katzy, CeTim gGmbH der Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany (no abstract available)
8. Knowledge Management and Decision Support for the New Enterprise, Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Association, Germany
9. Active Knowledge Models and Enterprise Knowledge Management, John Krogstie, SINTEF, Frank Lillehagen, Computas AS,Norway
10. EI3-IC Knowledge Representation, Jim Nell, NIST Manufacturing Systems Div., USA
11. UML semantics representation of enterprise modelling constructs, Herve Panetto, UHP Nancy – CRAN, France
12. Practices in Knowledge Management at Smalls and Medium size firms, Raúl Poler Escoto, Guillermina Tormo Carbó, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
13. Knowledge Management based on Semantic, Web technologies, Nenad Stojanovic, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
14. Barriers within the inter-organisational management of knowledge and the proposition of a human-centred solution framework, Michael Wunram, BIBA, Universität Bremen, Germany
15. Enterprise modelling to support knowledge management, Martin Zelm, CIMOSA Association, Germany

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