Enterprise Interoperability

by Doumeingts, Guy; Muller, Jorg; Morel, Gerard; Vallespir, Bruno

• ISBN13: 9781846287138
• ISBN10: 1846287138
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production of goods and services quickly and at low cost at the same time as maintaining levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is achieved if internal and external collaborators can interact on at least three levels: data, applications and business enterprise (through the architecture of an enterprise model and making allowance for the semantics of both partners). Not only a problem of software and IT technologies, it implies support for communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared business references. Today, a new and important consideration must be taken into account - economic business evaluation and the definition of dissemination policy. Composed of over 50 papers, Enterprise Interoperability ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial and administrative experience of interoperability. The international nature of the authorship continues to broaden. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas. The I-ESA'06 conference from which this book is drawn was sponsored by the European Union via the INTEROP network of excellence and the ATHENA integrated project (in the frame of the 6th IST Framework Research Program). It is also supported by the International Federation for Information Processing, the International Federation of Automatic Control and various national associations. A concise reference to the state of the art in software interoperability, Enterprise Interoperability will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in the academic environment.

Author Biography

Prof. Doumeingts has a long career in the domain of Enterprise Integration, has developed the GRAI Model and the Grai method which are today a reference for Enterprise Integration and Enterprise Interoperability. He has supervised more than 20 PhD on the subject and was Project Manager of more than 20 European projects on the subject. Prof. Doumeingts act also as consultant for European Companies and give International seminars on the subject.Prof. Dr. J+¦rg P. M++ller holds a Chair for Business Information Technology at Technical University of Clausthal. Previously, J+¦rg was Principal Researcher with Siemens AG, John Wiley & Sons, Zuno Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric, and the German Artificial Intelligence Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. from Saarbr++cken University and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kaiserslautern University. Within the last fifteen years, he has published more than 100 papers on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, business information systems and distributed computing. His current research interests include technologies for interoperability, model-driven business process automation, and business applications of agent technology, peer-to-peer and grid computing.Professor Gerard Morel is currently Head of the research programme of CRAN University H. Poincare Nancy on 'Manufacturing Engineering and Automation'. He is currently chairman of the IFAC TC 5.1. on 'Manufacturing Plant Control', Europe Editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Expert-evaluator for the European Commission IST programme.

Table of Contents

Service-oriented Interoperability Approaches
Development of Dynamic Composed Services Based on the Context	p. 3
Semantics of Interoperable and Outsourced Information Systems	p. 13
A Platform Independent Model for Service Oriented Architectures	p. 23
Enterprise Interoperability Architecture
Formalizing Analysis of Enterprise Architecture	p. 35
To Adapt or Not to Adapt, That is the Question: Towards a Framework to Analyze Scenarios for Aligning Legacy and Business Components	p. 45
Value object analysis and the transformation from value model to process model	p. 55
Activity Diagram Based Process Family Architectures for Enterprise Application Families	p. 67
Model-driven Approaches to Interoperability
An Integrated Model-driven Service Engineering Environment	p. 79
UML for Enterprise Modelling: basis for a Model-Driven Approach	p. 91
Solving Problems in the Parameterisation of ERPs Using a Model-Driven Approach	p. 103
A Decentralized Broker Architecture for Collaborative Business Process Modelling and Enactment	p. 115
Methods, Models, Languages and Tools for Enterprise Interoperability
Discretization of Continuous Features by Using a Kernel	p. 129
Designing and Implementing Cross-Organizational Business Processes - Description and Application of a Modelling Framework	p. 137
Quality Criteria for Enterprise Modelling in the Context of Networked Enterprises	p. 149
The UEML Approach to Modelling Construct Description	p. 159
A Roadmap for UEML	p. 169
An Interoperable Platform to Implement Collaborative Forecasting in OEM Supply Chains	p. 179
Service- and Process-Matching - An Approach towards Interoperability Design and Implementation of Business Networks	p. 189
Achieving Enterprise Model Interoperability Applying a Common Enterprise Metamodel	p. 199
Interoperability Characterization Using Enterprise Modeling and Graph Representation	p. 209
Semantics and Ontology-based Interoperability
Semantic Service Modeling: Enabling System Interoperability	p. 221
Supporting Scientific Collaboration in a Network of Excellence Through a Semantically Indexed Knowledge Map	p. 231
Mapping XML Schema to OWL	p. 243
Extending OWL-S to Solve Enterprise Application Integration Issues	p. 253
Practical Issues in Ontology Modeling: The Case of Defence Conceptual Modeling Framework-Ontology	p. 265
Digital Resource Discovery: Semantic Annotation and Matching Techniques	p. 275
A Model for Assessing the Impact of Enterprise Application Interoperability in the Typical European Enterprise	p. 287
Ontology-based Transformations for Achieving Interoperability in AmI	p. 297
Interoperability of Decision Models
A Decentralized Approach for Inter-Enterprise Business Process Collaboration	p. 309
Towards a Conceptualization of Decisional Interoperability	p. 321
Interoperability and Synergism of Decision, Information and Flexibility to Improve Performances of Enterprise Systems: KM Implications	p. 331
Inter-organisational Interoperability
Service Typing in Collaborative Systems	p. 343
Decentralized Metadata Development for Open B2B Electronic Business	p. 355
The TrustCoM Approach to Enforcing Agreements between Interoperating Enterprises	p. 365
Organisational Inter-operability: Towards Enterprise Urbanism	p. 377
An Integrated Approach for Organizational Data Interoperability	p. 387
Managing the Lifecycle of Cross-organizational Collaborative Business Processes	p. 397
Interoperability through Model-based Generation: The Case of the Collaborative Information System (CIS)	p. 407
A Natural Basis for Interoperability	p. 417
Designing a Modular Infrastructure for Exploratory Integration of Interoperability Approaches	p. 427
Interoperability of Manufacturing Enterprise Applications
Supply Chain Management System and Interoperability through EAI Platform	p. 441
Enhancing Interoperability of Manufacturing Software Units Using Capability Profiling	p. 451
Towards a Product Oriented Process Modelling for Enteriprise Applications Synchronisation and Interoperability	p. 461
Business Models Interoperability
Developing Interoperable Business Processes Using Web Services and Policies	p. 475
Talea: An Extensible Framework for E-Business Integration	p. 489
A Complexity Based Approach to Collaborations in the Tool and Die Industry	p. 499
Modelling Inter-organizational Workflow Security in a Peer-to-Peer Environment	p. 509
Enterprise Software with Half-Duplex Interoperations	p. 521
e-Proc a TO BE Scenario for Business Interoperability	p. 531
Standards for Interoperability
ICT Standards Development - Finding the Best Platform	p. 543
Experts on Causes of Incompatibility between Standard-Compliant Products	p. 553
Achieving Influence on Standardisation Bodies	p. 565
Interoperability in Healthcare: Standards for the French Project of a National Personal Medical Card	p. 575
Index of Contributors	p. 585
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