Minutes of the EI3-IC workshop on
Common Representation of Enterprise Models
The workshop was held at IPK, in Berlin, on 2002-02-20/22, with an attendance of 18 people (some only part time) coming from Belgium (1), France (2), Greece (1), Germany (6), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Spain (2), UK (2), USA (2).
This workshop was the last 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 ontologies, systems engineering, virtual enterprise and business process modelling, the inten-tions were to achieve some level of consensus regarding drivers, barriers and enablers for knowledge exchange across organisational boundaries. The workshop had the following objectives: enablers for knowledge exchange across organisational boundaries. The workshop had the following objectives:
WG1: main focus was on user enabled process modelling trying to identify the pros and cons of model re-engineering for decision support by the people involved in the process to be changed. The different types of support envisioned for this evolution of enterprise modelling application have been discussed and a first proposal for R&D projects has been drafted. Such support includes methodologies, user guidance and ICT support for user enabled process modelling. Focus is on system consistency assurance and adaptation of model representation to the users way of thinking. In addition, the needs for a formal underpinning had been stated and potential solutions have been addressed.
WG2: The workgroup focused on radical, but practical strategies for greatly improving enterprise modelling and process modelling in an enterprise context. The group’s work centred on improving user benefits in the context of common models, enterprise context and enterprise views. Major problems addressed were: multiworld views, soft modelling and meta-modelling theories. Several discrete research projects were proposed.
The working group reports will be consolidated and included in the final version, which will be presented at the ICEIMT’02 at Valencia, Spain, 2002-04-24/26.
List of papers presented in the workshop plenary:
1. ARIS. Its content and use, Mathias Beer, IDS Scheer,
Germany
2. Modelling of distributed business processes, Thorsten
Engel, FZI Germany
3. ICEIMT History, Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta, USA
4. Mission Project: Modelling and Simulation Environments
for Design, Planning and Operation of Globally Distributed Enterprises,
Frank-Walter Jaekel, IPK, Germany
5. Common Representation through UEML, Roland Jochem,
IPK, Germany
6. Requirements and Rules for Enterprise Modelling ,
Harald Wiedenmann, IPA, Germany, presented by K Kosanke, CIMOSA Association,
Germany
7. Language Semantics: Towards a Common Underlying Domain
Theory, Iannis Kotsiopoulos, ZENON, Greece
8. Implementation to simplify the User Understanding,
Juan Carlos Mendez, AdN International, Mexico
9. Methodologies: A Survey in the EI Field, Angel Ortiz
Bas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
10. UML semantics representation of enterprise modelling
constructs, Hervé Panetto, UHP Nancy – CRAN, France
11. Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology,
Chris Partridge, LADSEB-CNR – BORO Program, Italy
12. Methodological clues for the design of a standard
enterprise modelling language, Michael Petit, Univ. Notre-Dame de la Paix,
Belgium
13. Modelling PSA Peugeot Citroen and its suppliers interactions,
Patrick Raynaud, PSA, France
14. Business Process Modelling at Macro level with GERAM,
Francisca Sempere Ripoll, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
15. Applying UML in the revision of ENV 12204, Constructs
for Enterprise Modelling, David Shorter, IT Focus, UK
16. Enterprise Architecture/Systems Engineering – A need
for UEML, Peter Webb, BMT, UK
17. Constructs types and presentation of user oriented
enterprise modelling constructs, Martin Zelm, CIMOSA Association, Germany