Enterprise Inter- and intra-organizational integration : building international consensus : IFIP TC5/WG5.12 international conference on enterprise integration and modeling technology (ICEIMT'02), April 24-26, 2002, Valencia, Spain

The international initiative on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration (EI3-IC) had the objective to increase both international consen­ sus (IC) and public awareness on enterprise integration. In these proceedings we intend to present the current status in inter- and intra-organisational inte­ gration for electronic commerce and thereby to further increase awareness and consensus within academia and industry about enterprise inter-and intra­ organisational integration. The conference proceedings contain the papers presented at the ICEIMT conference in Valencia, Spain, selected papers presented at the different workshops and three papers on the initiative itself: overview, history and results. The proceedings follow the conference structure with each section (Parts 2 to 5) starting with the workgroup reports, followed by a particular view on the section theme and additional papers either presented at the con­ ference or during the related workshop. Section editorials discuss the differ­ ent contributions. As stated in the paper by Nell and Goranson in section 1 the results from all workshops indicate the important role of business processes in the area of e-commerce and virtual enterprises. Sharing relevant knowledge between co­ operating partners and making it available for decision support at all levels of management and across organisational boundaries will significantly en­ hance the trust between the partners on the different levels of partner opera­ tions (strategy, policy, operation and transaction). Clearly business process modelling can significantly enhance establishment, operation and decom­ mission of the required collaboration. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 EI3-IC Overview....Pages 3-6 ICEIMT: History and Challenges....Pages 7-14 Accomplishments of the ICEIMT’02....Pages 15-23 Enterprise Modelling and Integration....Pages 25-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-36 A Merged Future for Knowledge Management and Enterprise Modeling....Pages 37-50 Anchoring Knowledge in Business-Process Models to support Interoperability of Virtual Organizations....Pages 51-60 Managing Processes and Knowledge in Inter-Organisational Environments....Pages 61-70 Ontologies and their Role in Knowledge Management and E-Business Modelling....Pages 71-82 Semantic Bridging of Independent Enterprise Ontologies....Pages 83-90 Active Knowledge Models and Enterprise Knowledge Management....Pages 91-99 Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology....Pages 101-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-112 Agents and Advanced Virtual Enterprises: Needs and an Approach....Pages 113-125 Virtual Enterprise Planning Methods and Concepts....Pages 127-134 Quality of Virtual Enterprise Reference Models....Pages 135-146 The Business Process (Quiet) Revolution....Pages 147-158 Enterprise Architecture and Systems Engineering....Pages 159-166 Proposal of a Reference Framework for Manufacturing Systems Engineering....Pages 167-176 The Users View of Enterprise Integration and the Enterprise Process Architecture....Pages 177-182 Matching Teams to Business Processes....Pages 183-194 Analysis of Perceptions of Personnel at Organisational Levels on the Integration of Product, Functional and Process Orientations....Pages 195-203 Front Matter....Pages 111-112 Challenges to Multi-Enterprise Integration....Pages 205-216 Practices in Knowledge Management in Small and Medium Firms....Pages 217-224 Component-Based Automotive Production Systems....Pages 225-234 The MISSION Project....Pages 235-242 Front Matter....Pages 243-244 System Requirements: Products, Processes and Models....Pages 245-252 Ontologies as a New Cost Factor in Enterprise Integration....Pages 253-263 From Integration to Collaborative Business....Pages 265-271 Enterprise Interoperability: A Standardisation View....Pages 273-282 Interoperability of Standards to Support Application Integration....Pages 283-294 MultiView Program Status: Data Standards for the Integrated Digital Environment....Pages 295-301 Workflow Quality of Service....Pages 303-311 Improving PDM Systems Integration Using Software Agents....Pages 313-324 Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Electronic Commerce....Pages 325-333 Front Matter....Pages 335-336 Steps in Enterprise Modelling....Pages 337-345 New Support Technologies for Enterprise Integration....Pages 347-358 Some Methodological Clues for Defining a Unified Enterprise Modelling Language....Pages 359-369 Common Representation through UEML — Requirements and Approach....Pages 371-379 UML Semantics Representation of Enterprise Modelling Constructs....Pages 381-387 Language Semantics....Pages 389-397 Modelling of Distributed Business Processes....Pages 399-405 Front Matter....Pages 335-336 Needs and Characteristics of Methodologies for Enterprise Integration....Pages 407-415 Argumentation for Explicit Representation of Control within Enterprise Modelling and Integration....Pages 417-424 Back Matter....Pages 425-426 1. Overview and Results EI3-IC Overview ICEIMT: History and Challenges Accomplishments of the ICEIMT'02 Enterprise Modelling and Integration 2. Knowledge Management in Inter- and Intra-Organisational Environments A Merged Future for Knowledge Management and Enterprise Modeling Anchoring Knowledge in Business-Process Models to support Interoperability of Virtual Organizations Managing Processes and Knowledge in Inter-Organisational Environments Ontologies and their Role in Knowledge Management and E-Business Modelling Semantic Bridging of Independent Enterprise Ontologies Active Knowledge Models and Enterprise Knowledge Management Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology 3. Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Engineering and Integration Agents and Advanced Virtual Enterprises: Needs and an Approach Virtual Enterprise Planning Methods and Concepts Quality of Virtual Enterprise Reference Models The Business Process (Quiet) Revolution Enterprise Architecture and Systems Engineering Proposal of a Reference Framework for Manufacturing Systems Engineering The Users View of Enterprise Integration and the Enterprise Process Architecture Matching Teams to Business Processes Analysis of Perceptions of Personnel at Organisational Levels on the Integration of Product, Functional and Process Orientations Challenges to Multi-Enterprise Integration Practices in Knowledge Management in Small and Medium Firms Component-Based Automotive Production Systems The MISSION Project 4. Interoperability of Business Process and Enterprise Models System Requirements: Products, Processes and Models Ontologies as a New Cost Factor in Enterprise Integration From Integration To Collaborative Business Enterprise Interoperability: A Standardisation View Interoperability of Standards to Support Application Integration MultiView Program Status: Data Standards for the Integrated Digital Environment Workflow Quality of Service Improving PDM Systems Integration Using Software Agents Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Electronic Commerce 5. Common Representation of Enterprise Models Steps in Enterprise Modelling New Support Technologies for Enterprise Integration Some Methodological Clues for Defining a Unified Enterprise Modelling Language Common Representation through UEML Requirements and Approach UML Semantics Representation of Enterprise Modelling Constructs Language Semantics Modeling of Distributed Business Processes Needs and Characteristics of Methodologies for Enterprise Integration Argumentation for Explicit Representation of Control within Enterprise Modelling and Integration Authors Index. The new organizational paradigms of global cooperation and collaboration require new ways and means for their support. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can and will play a significant role in this support. However, the many currently available and seemingly conflicting solutions, the confusing terminology, the lack of business justification, and last but not least the insufficient understanding of the technology by the end user community has significantly hampered the large scale application of the relevant ICT support and thereby the acceptance of the new paradigms. Many of these issues have been addressed in the workshops of the international initiative on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration, which has been supported by the European IST Programme and NIST. The main subjects of the initiative: relations between knowledge management and business process modeling, interoperability of business processes and process models, enterprise engineering and integration, and representation of process models. Ontologies and agent technologies - the latter with their relations to ontologies and models - have been further subjects of discussions in several workshops. Results of the initiative are reported in this volume, which comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology (ICEIMT'02). The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Valencia, Spain in April 2002. Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building International Consensus provides not only a wealth of information on the state of the art of the subjects of the initiative, it also identifies opportunities for research and development. Potential projects are identified in the work group reports and some of those will be taken up by organizations involved.