The workshop was held at Gintic, in Singapore, on 2002-01-23/25, with an attendance of 17 people coming from Australia (1), Germany (3), Japan (1), Singapore (8 - some only part time), Spain (1), UK (1), USA (2).

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 in virtual enterprise 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 enterprise inter- and intra-organizational engineering and integration
• Review and assess available technologies
• Identify missing parts of technologies

The presentations covered the field of enterprise engineering and business process modelling addressing related standards, tools, and the impact of agent systems, modelling language as well as results from applying ICT in industry, see list of papers below..

Two working groups addressed the themes of ‘New model requirements/needs for advanced VEs’ and ‘General VE planning concepts’.  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 working group focused on agent technology and evaluated its impact on enterprise modelling for virtual enterprises. Relying on existing notions as well as on results from the first workshop in Paris on knowledge management the group selected an agent type to evaluate needs for technology advancements. The work lead to the definition of a self adapting agent mechanism, which includes an actor- and a sender-receiver model concept. New research work areas have been identified. The report is available on  http://cimosa.lrt.unibw-muenchen.de/cimosa/EI3-IC/WS2WG1V1.pdf .
Note: Please, deliver your comments to the above report in the public KnowledgeBoard Discussion Forum, under 'Business Processes' / Inter- and Intra Organisation Integration, at http://forum.knowledgeboard.com/~KnowledgeBoard

WG2: The relations between the VE life cycle and the GERAM life cycle have been analysed trying to identify the contents of the higher levels of the life cycle models (GERAM identification and concept phase). Structure and contents of high level VE planning processes have been identified that allow to model the establishment of VEs on the business planning level as well as the planning of the collaboration and the operation (tactical and operational planning)..

List of presentations in the workshop plenary:

1. Feasibility study of virtual integration of SMEs in the printing industry, Ang, Cheng Leong, Gintic, Singapore
2. Methodologies and reference models for building virtual enterprises, Bernus, Peter, Australia
3. High fidelity discrete event simulation for supply chain optimisation, Lendermann, Peter, Gintic, Singapore
4. BPR for enterprise integration, Seow, Yit Yuee, Gintic, Singapore
5. EPC-IT next generation business collaboration and management solution, Lee, Ivan, Gintic, Singapore
6. Model integration, Fukuda, Yoshiro, Hosei University, Japan
7. ICEIMT history, Goranson, Ted, Sirius-Beta, USA
8. Enterprise engineering – needs for interoperability, Jochem, Roland, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
9. Enterprise inter- and intra-organisational engineering and integration, Kosanke, Kurt, CIMOSA Association, Germany
10. Inter- and intra-organisational commerce, Nell, Jim, NIST Manufacturing Systems Div., USA
11. Microregional knowledge cluster, Tormo Carbó, Guillermina, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
12. Enterprise modelling and enterprise integration as enablers for engineering component-based systems, Weston, Richard, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
13. Construct types and presentation of user oriented enterprise modelling constructs, Zelm, Martin, CIMOSA Association, Germany
 

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