Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches (Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences Book 2)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Development of Dynamic Composed Services Based on the Context....Pages 3-12 Semantics of Interoperable and Outsourced Information Systems....Pages 13-22 A Platform Independent Model for Service Oriented Architectures....Pages 23-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Formalizing Analysis of Enterprise Architecture....Pages 35-44 To Adapt or Not to Adapt, That is the Question....Pages 45-54 Value object analysis and the transformation from value model to process model....Pages 55-65 Activity Diagram Based Process Family Architectures for Enterprise Application Families....Pages 67-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 An Integrated Model-driven Service Engineering Environment....Pages 79-89 UML for Enterprise Modelling: basis for a Model-Driven Approach....Pages 91-101 Solving Problems in the Parameterisation of ERPs Using a Model-Driven Approach....Pages 103-113 A Decentralized Broker Architecture for Collaborative Business Process Modelling and Enactment....Pages 115-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Discretization of Continuous Features by Using a Kernel....Pages 129-136 Designing and Implementing Cross-Organizational Business Processes - Description and Application of a Modelling Framework....Pages 137-147 Quality Criteria for Enterprise Modelling in the Context of Networked Enterprises....Pages 149-158 The UEML Approach to Modelling Construct Description....Pages 159-168 A Roadmap for UEML....Pages 169-178 An Interoperable Platform to Implement Collaborative Forecasting in OEM Supply Chains....Pages 179-188 Service- and Process-Matching — An Approach towards Interoperability Design and Implementation of Business Networks....Pages 189-198 Achieving Enterprise Model Interoperability Applying a Common Enterprise Metamodel....Pages 199-208 Interoperability Characterization Using Enterprise Modeling and Graph Representation....Pages 209-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Semantic Service Modeling: Enabling System Interoperability....Pages 221-230 Supporting Scientific Collaboration in a Network of Excellence Through a Semantically Indexed Knowledge Map....Pages 231-241 Mapping XML Schema to OWL....Pages 243-252 Extending OWL-S to Solve Enterprise Application Integration Issues....Pages 253-263 Practical Issues in Ontology Modeling: The Case of Defence Conceptual Modeling Framework-Ontology....Pages 265-274 Digital Resource Discovery: Semantic Annotation and Matching Techniques....Pages 275-285 A Model for Assessing the Impact of Enterprise Application Interoperability in the Typical European Enterprise....Pages 287-296 Ontology-based Transformations for Achieving Interoperability in AmI....Pages 297-306 Front Matter....Pages 307-307 A Decentralized Approach for Inter-Enterprise Business Process Collaboration....Pages 309-319 Towards a Conceptualization of Decisional Interoperability....Pages 321-329 Interoperability and Synergism of Decision, Information and Flexibility to Improve Performances of Enterprise Systems: KM Implications....Pages 331-339 Front Matter....Pages 341-341 Service Typing in Collaborative Systems....Pages 343-353 Decentralized Metadata Development for Open B2B Electronic Business....Pages 355-364 The TrustCoM Approach to Enforcing Agreements between Interoperating Enterprises....Pages 365-375 Organisational Inter-operability: Towards Enterprise Urbanism....Pages 377-386 An Integrated Approach for Organizational Data Interoperability....Pages 387-396 Managing the Lifecycle of Cross-organizational Collaborative Business Processes....Pages 397-406 Interoperability through Model-based Generation: The Case of the Collaborative Information System (CIS)....Pages 407-416 A Natural Basis for Interoperability....Pages 417-426 Designing a Modular Infrastructure for Exploratory Integration of Interoperability Approaches....Pages 427-437 Front Matter....Pages 439-439 Supply Chain Management System and Interoperability through EAI Platform....Pages 441-450 Enhancing Interoperability of Manufacturing Software Units Using Capability Profiling....Pages 451-460 Towards a Product Oriented Process Modelling for Enterprise Applications Synchronisation and Interoperability....Pages 461-472 Front Matter....Pages 473-473 Developing Interoperable Business Processes Using Web Services and Policies....Pages 475-487 Talea: An Extensible Framework for E-Business Integration....Pages 489-498 A Complexity Based Approach to Collaborations in the Tool and Die Industry....Pages 499-508 Modelling Inter-organizational Workflow Security in a Peer-to-Peer Environment....Pages 509-519 Enterprise Software with Half-Duplex Interoperations....Pages 521-530 e-Proc a TO BE Scenario for Business Interoperability....Pages 531-540 Front Matter....Pages 541-541 ICT Standards Development — Finding the Best Platform....Pages 543-552 Experts on Causes of Incompatibility between Standard-Compliant Products....Pages 553-563 Achieving Influence on Standardisation Bodies....Pages 565-574 Interoperability in Healthcare: Standards for the French Project of a National Personal Medical Record....Pages 575-584 Back Matter....Pages 585-587