COA related projects
Describes R&D projects with participation
of members of the former CIMOSA Association
I-ESA 2020
The I-ESA 2020 Conference with the subtitle Interoperability in
the era of Artificial Intelligence has been held online on November
17th - 20th, 2020 at the Ecole Nationale
d'Ingenieurs de Tarbes (ENIT), 65000 Tarbes, France.
For more details, see https://iesa2020.enit.fr/
The I-ESA
2020 Conference with the subtitle Interoperability in the era
of Artificial Intelligence is addressing efficient collaborations of
enterprises requiring management of interoperability in a dynamic, evolving
production network. An efficient collaboration of organizations requires
continuous adaptation to remain in line with potentially changing objectives,
evolving resources and unexpected events.
Further, the
topics of I-ESA 2020 are aligned with the vision
of the European Framework Program Horizon 2020, regarding
Enterprise Interoperability and Innovation, Interoperability strategies for
Digital and Sensing Enterprise, System Interoperability in Internet of
Everything, Collaborative Manufacturing and Logistics.
I-ESA
2020 has organized 9 Workshops held in close conjunction
with the main conference. The particular goal is to
facilitate an active exchange between the speakers and the audience in order to
encourage further research and to publish the discussion outcomes in the
proceedings. Workshops also address past or present International, European and national research projects in order to promote
the exploitation of the project results.
The I-ESA 2020 Workshop Proceedings of the 9 workshops
have been published online and are freely accessible at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2900/ . The publisher CEUR-WS is a free, open access
publication channel for workshops and conferences from the computer science and
information systems domain.
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I-ESA
2018
Smart
Services and Business Impact of Enterprise Interoperability
Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin: Conference March 22-23,
Workshops March 20-21, Doctoral Symposium March 19, 2018:
http://iesa2018.ipk.fraunhofer.de/4941/
Organised by: Fraunhofer IPK / DFI and INTEROP-VLab
Goal and scope
The I-ESA
series of conferences brings together the world's leading researchers and
practitioners of enterprise interoperability and related domains, including
interoperability aspects of enterprise systems and application. The conference
will connect new business models, smart services, IoT and Cloud technologies.
All these current and future technologies cannot work smoothly without
interoperability. I-ESA is an outstanding opportunity to exchange experiences
and business ideas between researchers, service providers, entrepreneurs and
industrial stakeholders. I-ESA’18 is a forum where industry and research worlds
meet and share experience, ideas and challenges on all aspects of enterprise
systems interoperability and builds upon the seven previous conferences
I-ESA 2018 Workshop Proceedings:
In todays business
world, markets, technologies and ICT stakeholders constantly improve and
develop, making it challenging for single organizations to keep up with the
competition and to implement the upcoming Digital Transformation.
Organizational interoperation will become one key for cooperating enterprises.
The book of the workshop proceedings contains the short papers from 10
workshops organized in the frame of the International Conference on Enterprise
Interoperability (I-ESA 2018) held on 2018-03-19/23 at the Fraunhofer IPK
Institute in Berlin, together with the proceedings of a Doctoral Symposium.
Most of the
presented workshop papers are originating from European or national research
projects. One major goal of the workshop is the exchange of knowledge to encourage new
findings, an
active discussion of issues and the debate of results held between the
presenters and the audience . Below you find a summary
of selected topics from the I-ESA workshops. The workshop titles can also be
found via the weblink below.
1) workshop on Modelling & Simulation to
design Advanced Manufacturing System : the workshop focused on PSS developments in academic and industrial domains, particularly with
examples from European research projects and discussed methods and tools to support the
development of Product Service System (PSS).
2) workshop on
Interoperable ICT solutions in dynamic business environments: four major issues have been
discussed: (i)
howto empower people? (ii) how to enable
effective knowledge sharing across multiple users with different work viewpoints?
(iii) which analytic methods and techniques are needed? (iv) how to deploy and
maintain Interoperable ICT applications
3) workshop on enterprise interoperability methods applied to
vertical or horizontal organizational integration: key impact factors are
seamless cooperation between enterprise strategy, tactic and operation,
flexible Value Networks and
implementation of new IT technologies such as Cyber Physical systems and
Internet of Things as well as use of IT service provision and Cloud technologies
5) a combined B1/B2 workshop on Big Data:
discussed challenges for Smart Manufacturing and research definition efforts of
the Big Data Value Association (BDVA). The efforts include data integration and
data analysis challenges of Big Data. Another global challenge is the
development of suitable reference ontologies to enable semantic information
interoperability demonstrated wit examples from the domains logistics and
construction industry.
6) standardisation
workshop: discussions on why
Interoperability should be driven by Agile Integration using Message Standards
concepts resulted inconsideration of the respective needs for standards in
development, deployment and configuration of smart services and applications. Using an example of
message standards in the manufacturing sector, capability profiles in standards for life-cycle management
were addressed
Subsequently, the questions of broad dissemination and use of
such message standards was discussed
7) workshop on Virtual
Factory Operating System: discussion on an Open Environment for
Development of Manufacturing Applications in a novel environment resulted in
proposal of an advanced editor for software developers. The proposed editor
will provide a set of artifacts and libraries including standard connectors and
extension points, debuggers, and tools to optimize the performance of
applications. The approach is built on micro-services, and will be orchestrated
through common REST (REpresentational State Transfer)
web services with special attention on running resources OnPremise
versus purely InCloud.
8) Two workshops on requirements of Predictive
Maintenance in the frame of Industry 4.0:
considered methodologies, tools and Interoperable applications, as well as aspects of
people qualification and
education.
9) workshop on
Interoperability for Crisis Management in Smart Cities: proposed new methods to
cope with crisis management in order to increase the resilience of the
operation in Smart Cities.
10) Doctoral
Symposium: a change in the production process also requires a change in
information systems. The proposed a flexible solution concept built on business
processes that describe the value adding of an enterprise as well as
configuration of the information system in order to obtain the needed information.
Two illustrative use cases were presented.
For more information see the I-ESA 2018 Proceedings with the table of
contents and the titles of all papers at http://www.iste.co.uk/book.php?id=1411
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I-ESA
2016
Pre-conference
March 29th - 30th 2016 with workshops
Conference March
31st- April 1st 2016
GUIMARÃES (PORTUGAL)
Organised by Universidade do
Minho / INTEROP VLab
“Enterprise Interoperability in the digitized and networked Factory of
the Future“
The I-ESA series of conferences has become a forum where industry and research worlds meet and
share experience, ideas and problems
on all aspects of enterprise systems interoperability and associated topics.
Furthermore, the topics of I-ESA 2016
are aligned with the vision presented in the framework program Horizon 2020
regarding interoperability: Enterprise interoperability and Innovation,
Interoperability strategies for Digital and Sensing Enterprise, System
Interoperability in Internet of everything; Collaborative manufacturing and
logistics.
A detailed description is available at
http://www.i-esa.org/
.
I-ESA 2016 Workshops Summary: The papers presented at the 11 workshops were mostly originating from
European or national ICT research projects. They address topics of advanced
Enterprise Interoperability in research and applications in domains like Next
Generation Enterprise Modeling, Product Service Systems, Big Data,
Interoperability of Cloud collaborative networks as well as realisations
in pilot implementations and standardisation
management.
The
Conference Proceedings will be published by SPRINGER. The Workshop Proceedings will be published by
ISTE-WILEY .
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I-ESA 2014
The I-ESA 2014 Conference,
the 7th International Conference on Interoperablity
and Applications, organised by Ecole de Mines Albi-Carmaux
and INTEROP-VLab has taken place at Albi (France) on March
26-28, 2014, with Workshops and a Doctoral Symposium held on March 24-25,
2014.
Enterprises and
organizations in today's economic environment are strongly dependent on their
ability to interoperate in collaborations. The concept of interoperability has
been defined by INTEROP-VLab as the ‘Ability
of an enterprise system or application to interact with others’ at a
low cost in a flexible approach. Consequently, interoperability of
organisations appears as a major issue to succeed in building on the fly
emerging enterprise networks. The conference is addressing in particular Interoperability for Agility, Resilience and
Plasticity of collaborations.
I-ESA 2014
defines the concept of Enterprise Agility for interoperability with three
objectives, namely to:
- supervise the environment to detect
any elements requiring agility,
- control the enterprise structure and
behaviour to adapt to the changed situation,
- proceed with
detection and adaptation in an innovative, efficient manner
At I-ESA 2014, a total of 47
papers including key notes have been presented and published in the conference
proceedings by SPRINGER, ISBN 978-3-319-04947-2
Preceded by the conference,
seven workshops have been held. The workshop proceedings will be published by
ISTE-WILEY in July 2014. Two workshops have addressed standardisation with the
workshop titles, Standardisation Developments for Enterprise Interoperability and the Manufacturing Service Domain and Corporate Standardisation Management.
The presentation slides from both workshops are available at interop-vlab.eu .
Read more at http://www.2014.i-esa.org
I-ESA 2012
The
International Conference I-ESA’12 , Interoperability
for Enterprise Systems and Applications, "Shaping Enterprise
Interoperability in Future Internet" will take place at
Valencia/Spain on March 22-23, 2012, preceded by a Pre-Conference with
Workshops and a Doctoral Symposium, on March 20-21, 2012 .
Scope:
Today, companies maximise flexibility and speed of response to changing market
conditions, by focusing on core innovation and information centred activities,
outsourcing labour intensive activities to less advanced economies. They
develop knowledge and links with other companies with which they can
collaborate to provide the products and services that the market demands – the
networked enterprise, or virtual organisation.
The International
Conference I-ESA 2010 Interoperabilkity
for Enterprise Software and Applications - Making the Internet of the
Future the Furure of the Entreprise
was held at Coventry, UK on April 13/15, 2010. The conference with 43
papers and 165 participants was addressing in seven parts the topics: Business
Interoperability, Enterprise Modelling for Enterprise Interoperability,
Semantics for Enterprise Interoperability, Architectures and Frameworks for
Interoperability, Platforms for Enterprise Interoperability, Interoperability
Scenarios and Case Studies, Standards for Interoperability. The conference
proceedings have been published by Springer, ISBN 978-1-184996-256-8 . Find a Summary of the conference and the papers.
Scope: Today,
enterprises/organisations maximise flexibility and speed of response to
changing external conditions. They develop knowledge and links with other
Enterprises/Organisation with which they can collaborate to provide the
products and services that the users demands. The issue of
interoperability within the enterprise/organisations is therefore no longer
limited to the interoperability between silos of systems within single
companies, but has become one of interoperability throughout a network of
enterprise/organisation.
It is now recognised that interoperability of systems and thus sharing of
information is not sufficient to ensure common understanding between
enterprises. Knowledge of information meaning and understanding of how is to be
used must also be shared if decision makers distributed between those
enterprises in the network want to act consistently and efficiently. Enterprise
interoperability must therefore now embrace sharing of collaboration knowledge
and core competencies as well as the administration of such shared knowledge knowledge oriented collaboration. Find related information
at http://interop-vlab.eu
As a Pre-Conference day,
I-ESA 2010 has featured a programme consisting of workshops and tutorials. A
workshop titled “Standards
– a foundation for Interoperability” (link to workshop report)
organised by the I-VLab Standardisation Group was
held on 2010-04-13. The Conference offered several exhibits and a brokerage
event, including a hands-on "industrial use case challenge".
DFI Industry Workshop
The DFI (Deutsches Forum fuer Interoperabilitaet the German INTEROP-VLab Pole, www.dfi-ev.de) has invited researchers and
practitioners interested in interoperability to a workshop held in cooperation
with the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, on April 2, 2009. The
workshop titled Produktivität im Vertriebsprozess durch Interoperabilitaet -
Interoperability for productivity in the marketing process has taken place
at Konstanz, Germany. The workshop was attended by 78 participants from
research and from industry and was rated very successful in building a bridge
between these two areas as well as providing a common vision of interoperation
developments. You find a workshop
report here.
I-ESA China 2009
The International
Conference I-ESA China 2009 Interoperabilkity
for Enterprise Software and Applications - Promoting collaboration of
enterprises through interoperability, to link China and Europe and the
world - was held in Bejing, China on 2009-04-21/23
with 130 participants, among them officers from DG INFSO of the European
Commission and from MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology of China),
conference website http://www.i-esa.org.cn
Objectives and scope of the
conference:
Enterprise Interoperability is the ability of an Enterprise or more generally
one Organisation to work with other Enterprises or Organisations without
special effort. The capability to interact and exchange information both
internally and with external organisations- partners, suppliers, customers,
citizens - is a key issue in the economic and
public sector. Today, Enterprises/Organisations maximise flexibility and speed
of response to changing external conditions. They develop knowledge and links
with other Enterprises/Organisation with which they can collaborate to provide
the products and services that the users demands. Enterprise
interoperability must therefore now embrace sharing of collaboration knowledge
and core competencies as well as the administration of such shared knowledge
-knowledge oriented collaboration.
INTEROP-VLab
INTEROP-VLab
has grown to eight poles, with the Italian Pole and the North Pole (Finland,
Norway and Sweden) as new partners, enlarging the VLab
to an organisation with more than 300 interoperability researchers in 70
organisations. At the 2nd General Assembly held on 2008-05-15 in Brussels, the
following major achievements were presented:
- VLab is recognised as the Single Entry point of
State of the Art for Enterprise Interoperability. All public deliverables
developed in the FP6 and FP7 projects related to Enterprise Interoperabil-ity
provided by the European commission are accessible via the INTEROP-VLab platform ,
- the Research Agenda of the INTEROP-VLab scientific
group has been introduced into the EI roadmap of the European Commission,
- the INTEROP-VLab services including the knowledge
map as the dynamic interoperability Asset of INTEROP-VLab
to facilitate finding of world wide Interoperability
Experts, Interopera-bility approaches and artefacts
as well as all re-lated documents in an integrated
environment.
More details about ongoing activities, also reported in the regular Newsletters
can be found on the VLab portal (http://www.interop-vlab.eu).
The I-ESA 2008 Conference : The 4th International Conference on
Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications was held at
Fraunhofer IPK in Berlin, Germany, on 2008-03-25/28. Organised in 3 parallel
sessions and with 8 workshops, the I-ESA'2008 conference brought together 180
experts in Enterprise Interoperability and e-Business research with industry
users, presenting to the audience the forefront of interoperability research as
well as industry positions and viewpoints in this domain. Interoperability in
this context of enterprise applications is the ability of a system or a product
to interact and exchange information both internally and with external
organisations (partners, suppliers, customers) is a key issue in the entire
economy.
I-ESA´2008 was jointly
organized by the INTEROP VLab (http://www.interop-vlab.eu)
and the EIC (Enterprise Interoperability Centre) the follow-on of the ATHENA
project (http://www.eic-community.org).
A summary of all presented
papers, grouped according to the main subjects is available at, I-ESA'2008
Conference papers .
INTEROP-VLab has the goal to develop a large scale networked research community in
Europe and beyond. It has been established in March 2007 as follow-on
organisation of the INTEROP-NoE project (Network of
Excellence). The VLab will co-ordinate, develop and
promote research on Enterprise Interoperability (EI) through a number of newly
established regional partner organisations called Poles. So far Poles
in France, Germany, UK and China have been
established, four more in preparation. The German Pole, DIF (Deutsches Forum fuer Interoperabilitaet) is located at the Fraunhofer IPK in
Berlin. The CIMOSA Association is a partner of the Deutsches
Forum fuer Interoperabilitaet .
More
details about VLab are provided in a summary of the first
INTEROP-VLab Newsletter or can be found at the portal http://interop-vlab.eu.
INTEROP-NoE Results
and Dissemination
Besides the scientific
results at the end of the project, described in the deliverables (http://interop-vlab.eu.)
and the network building, INTEROP has created early pilot products from its
research activities:
- Knowledge map (KMap)
a knowledge base providing information on organizations, projects and
results of the enterprise interoperability community. KMap
is employing a query interface to capture recent research results in the
area of Enterprise Modelling, Collaborative platforms, Semantic Web, Text Mining,
and Ontology Enrichment.
- Taxonomy Validator (TAV), a tool to
browse, update and validate a taxonomy with functions to create, delete
and search concepts; and add conceptual relations
- Potential products might be derived from
a) The INTEROP Glossary, b) the Interoperability Explicit Knowledge
Repository) (IEKR), a virtual library of publications about
interoperability, c) Tutorials and Web courses for education about
selected interoperability topics.
With the project
emphasis on network building, dissemination of the project results has been an
activity of major importance. The following list provides an overview of the
different activities that have been carried out:amonmg
it the I-ESA International INTEROP Conferences, held in Geneva 2005, Bordeaux
2006 and Funchal 2007 with a total of 800 participating researchers from
academia and industry.
- 62 sessions and scientific workshops
- 70 papers in international journals
- 8 special issues of international journals
- 20 books or proceedings
- 309 communications in international recog-nised conferences
63 national articles on dissemination
The results
of the project activities have reached an estmated
2500 researchers worldwide
The I-ESA 2007 Conference
More than 400 people
attended the I-ESA'07 Conference on March 26-30, 2007
at Funchal, Portugal, with 32 sessions, 12 workshops, 12 tutorials, 16 courses
of the School in Interoperability and the PhD symposium, among them the world’s
leading researchers and practitioners in the area of Enterprise
Interoperability and e-Business. The I-ESA has been successfully proven as a
unique forum to present and discuss research results and industrial experiences
of interoperability research for business, enterprise applications and software.You will find here a Press
Release about the Conference with further details and the I-ESA'07
announcement with the conference scope, topics,
co-sponsors and committees.
Further, there is a condensed
version of all papers of the I-ESA'07 proceedings available.
WHAT: I-ESA 2007 is one in a series of
advanced conferences about Interoperability for Enterprise Software and
Applications. Interoperability is a new discipline of complex business
relationships. We define it as the ability of a system or a product to work
with other systems in order to produce goods and services quickly and at lower
cost.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE: Both academic personnel from
applied interoperability research as well as experts and development managers
from industry working in Enterprise Software Applications (ERP, CRM,
Decisional….), system integrators, business and IT consultancies.
You are invited to contribute presenting your results and viewpoint in a forum
for exchange of solutions and new requirements.
The conference is focussing
on the topics under the aspect of interoperability: Business and Organisational
Models, Collaboration, Co-design, , Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks, Product
Data Management, Ontologies based methods, Services, Architectures and
Platforms as well as Standardisation and Security. Besides a pre-conference
workshops and symposia, I-ESA’07 will include an exhibition programme and an
additional brokerage event, including hands-on "industrial use case
challenges".
BACKGROUND: Initiated in 2003 by two major
European research projects of the 6th Framework R&D Programme of the
European Commission, the ATHENA Integrated Projectand
the INTEROP
Network of Excellence, both with participating world class European
enterprises, research organisations and universities but also specialists round
the world (USA, Japan, China, ….).The previous I-ESA conferences in 2005 and
2006 have been recognized to lead and generate an extensive research and
industrial impact and were attended by more than 300 participants.
LOCATION: Funchal,Madeira Island, Portugal, March 27-30,
2007. For more information, please see the Call for Proposal (CfP), and the overview on
the I-ESA'07 at http://www.i-esa.org/i-esa2007
INTEROP-ESA
2006 Conference Report
The I-ESA 2006 conference
has been held in Bordeaux, 2006-03-22/24. The conference was organised by
two of the European interoperability cluster projects – INTEROP and ATHENA and
held jointly with the eGovernment conference of the eGov
project and attended by 240 particpants. A total of
76 papers together with 6 keynote papers have been presented during the I-ESA
conference in plenary and parallel sessions, the latter including
well-organised poster sessions.
Starting with a view on the
changing context of enterprise interoperability research by G. Santucci, Head
of the Unit ‘ICT for Enterprise Networking’ at the DG ‘Information Society and
Media’ of the European Commission, the keynote sessions continued with 4 papers
presenting the view of industrial users (Verizon, Siemens) and software
providers (Microsoft, SAP). Two papers presented by INTEROP and ATHENA on their
efforts on community building - Virtual Lab and Enterprise Interoperability
Centre, respectively - completed the keynote sessions.
The emphasis of the
research papers was on the main areas of the INTEROP and ATHENA projects:
Enterprise Modelling, Ontologies and Platforms. Papers on standardisation and
trust completed the research on interoperability efforts. A short summary
of all papers is provided in the linked I-ESA 2006 Report,
which follows the same sequence as above, but introducing a few sub-headings to
structure the papers according to their main content. The conference
proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag. Via the following links,
more details of the I-ESA 2006 Conference programme and of the preceeding workshops are provided .
INTEROP Project Organisation
The main results of INTEROP
- with its focus on the interoperability and synergy between the domains of
Enterprise Modelling, Ontology and Architecture & Platform - can be
summarised in three clusters of project work packages:
1.) Integrating activities
(WP1 to WP4): Selection and installation of a collaboration platform (www.interop-noe.org);
Design of a Knowledge Map with a query function for interoperability research,
a classification framework (taxonomy) and a prototype for data collection
(Protégé); Definition of a model for the definition of the Virtual Laboratory
to persist after the termination of the project.
3.)
Dissemination and spreading of excellence activities (WP10 to WP12): Initial
elaboration of a glossary of interoperability terms; Definition of a list of
Web courses and tutorials to be developed; Initial rules for the creation of an
Interoperability Master Program; Co-ordinated organisation of and participation
in a large number of events like international conferences and workshops, the
most significant of them being the First International Conference on
Interoperability for Enterprise Applications and Software (I-ESA), Geneva,
February 2005. Most of the results are available as public deliverables
INTEROP-ESA'2005 Conference Report
INTEROP-ESA’05,
1st International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise
Software and Applications, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005-02-23/25, 56 papers
have been presented in 12 general sessions and 6 special industry sessions and
on R&D in the IST programme. Conference attendance was about 150
people.
The
conference was preceded by a two-day doctoral symposium presenting and
discussing 23 interoperability related papers, 2 tutorials on tools for B2B
transaction analysis and web services and 4 workshops addressing enterprise
integration, interoperability and networking, related standards, web services
and interoperability and industry needs and requirements, respectively.
Three
plenary session addressed various aspects of interoperability with the four
keynote speakers addressing the need for future developments with an emphasis
on applications in areas like health, transport, energy, materials
entertainment, education etc.; eGovernment interoperability for regional
governments; the OMG Model Driven Architecture; and the view of the European
Commission on interoperability. Three invited papers presented contributions
from the ATHENA project (IST
50 78 49), from
the CEN/ISSS eBusiness Interoperability Forum and fro Microsoft. Focus of
the ATHENA presentation was on CommunityBuilding
and the Enterprise Interoperability Centre (EIC). The latter is foreseen as
follow-on for the ATHENA project and shall be established, as an independent,
permanent organisation to outreach to individual industry sectors for
disseminating, catalysing and mobilising the development and use of
interoperable solutions that meet business needs. Microsoft presented their
view on Service-Oriented Architecture and how they could be employed in
realising trusted, interoperable, pan-European e-government services.
The papers
presented in the general session addressed a wide range of subjects relevant
for enterprise software and application interoperability including frameworks,
architectures, metamodels, ontologies, infrastructures and tools.
An overview
of relevant research projects was presented in the two sessions on R&D in
the European IST program. Seven projects present themselves and their
contributions to interoperability. The areas addressed: Semantic Web,
cross-organisational collaboration, standardisation, research in
interoperability, enterprise systems and integration and eGovernment.
Industrial
applications have been presented in four consecutive special sessions of the
Industrial Track addressing topics of interoperability in the domains
of architecture, frameworks and infrastructures. Objective of the
Industrial Track was 1) to bring together researchers, users and practitioners
working on various issues of interoperability to share their knowledge and
experiences, 2) to reach an improved common understanding, across industry and
research, on interoperability and 3) to identify requirements for further
research.
The
Collaborative Platform as the focus of knowledge exchange offers
- asynchronous
collaboration methods to allow topics discussion among geographically
distributed researchers,
- synchronous
collaboration methods to allow web-conferences and application sharing and
- knowledge
management methods to allow knowledge dissemination between partners and
long-distance learning and training.
The
Joint Programme of Activities of INTEROP and ATHENA in the 6FP aims to:
- integrate
and generate knowledge in Ontology, Enterprise Modelling, and
Architectures to give sustainable sense to interoperability,
Why
is interoperability so important
- Ontology
to identify interoperability semantics in the enterprise,
By
participating in a Workpackage or joining one of the Open Workshops.
Prof.
JP Bourrièrres, University Bordeaux 1, bourrieres@lap.u-bordeaux.fr
Internet:
For INTEROP www.interop-noe.org and for ATHENA www.athena-ip.org/
Unified Enterprise Modelling Language
(UEML)
- creating a European consensus on a common modelling
language and to facilitate inter-operability within the frame of ongoing
standardisation efforts. The common language representing this consensus
will be defined in terms of a core set of modelling constructs.
- building an UEML demonstrator to promote, test, and
collect comments, validate and improve the
proposed Modelling Language Constructs.
- preparing the launching of a project to define,
implement, and promote the complete UEML.
- provide the business community with a common visual,
template based language founded on formal mathematical methods
- support the implementation of open and evolutionary
enterprise model repositories to leverage enterprise knowledge engineering
services and capabilities
- offer standardised mechanisms for sharing knowledge
models and exchanging entreprise models among
projects
- enable distributed modelling in the Web on top of most
commercial EM and workflow software tools
Results (at
the end of the project, May 30, 2003):
Enterprise Inter-and Intra
Organisational Integration - International Consensus
(EI3-IC)
- CIMOSA Association, Germany,
- Fraunhofer Institute IPK (Institute for Production
Systems and Design Technology), Germany,
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
USA and
- Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- four workshops with international experts reviewing
and consolidating a set of issues in enterprise inter and
intra-organisational integration.
- the ICEIMT’02 (International Conference on Enterprise
Integration and Modelling Technologies) that is aimed on state of the art overview and presentation of the
workshop results.
- Workshop 1, Knowledge management in inter- and
intra-organization environments (EADS, Paris, France, 01-12-05/06)
- Workshop 2, Enterprise inter- and intra-organization
engineering and integration (Gintic, Singapore,
02-01-23/25)
- Workshop 3, Interoperability of business processes and
enterprise models (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)
- Workshop 4, Common representation of enterprise models
(IPK, Berlin, Germany, 02-02-20/22)
More details can be found in this Web Site at http://www.cimosa.de/EI3-IC/index1.html
Tim Oake, Project Co-ordinator
& Bernhard Katzy (+), Technical Director