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 manufacturingengineers working in the academic environment.

Auteur

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. Jörg P. Müller holds a Chair for Business Information Technology at Technical University of Clausthal. Previously, Jörg 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 Saarbrücken 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.

Contenu

Service-oriented Interoperability Approaches.- Development of Dynamic Composed Services Based on the Context.- Semantics of Interoperable and Outsourced Information Systems.- A Platform Independent Model for Service Oriented Architectures.- Enterprise Interoperability Architecture.- Formalizing Analysis of Enterprise Architecture.- To Adapt or Not to Adapt, That is the Question.- Value object analysis and the transformation from value model to process model.- Activity Diagram Based Process Family Architectures for Enterprise Application Families.- Model-driven Approaches to Interoperability.- An Integrated Model-driven Service Engineering Environment.- UML for Enterprise Modelling: basis for a Model-Driven Approach.- Solving Problems in the Parameterisation of ERPs Using a Model-Driven Approach.- A Decentralized Broker Architecture for Collaborative Business Process Modelling and Enactment.- Methods, Models, Languages and Tools for Enterprise Interoperability.- Discretization of Continuous Features by Using a Kernel.- Designing and Implementing Cross-Organizational Business Processes - Description and Application of a Modelling Framework.- Quality Criteria for Enterprise Modelling in the Context of Networked Enterprises.- The UEML Approach to Modelling Construct Description.- A Roadmap for UEML.- An Interoperable Platform to Implement Collaborative Forecasting in OEM Supply Chains.- Service- and Process-Matching - An Approach towards Interoperability Design and Implementation of Business Networks.- Achieving Enterprise Model Interoperability Applying a Common Enterprise Metamodel.- Interoperability Characterization Using Enterprise Modeling and Graph Representation.- Semantics and Ontology-based Interoperability.- Semantic Service Modeling: Enabling SystemInteroperability.- Supporting Scientific Collaboration in a Network of Excellence Through a Semantically Indexed Knowledge Map.- Mapping XML Schema to OWL.- Extending OWL-S to Solve Enterprise Application Integration Issues.- Practical Issues in Ontology Modeling: The Case of Defence Conceptual Modeling Framework-Ontology.- Digital Resource Discovery: Semantic Annotation and Matching Techniques.- A Model for Assessing the Impact of Enterprise Application Interoperability in the Typical European Enterprise.- Ontology-based Transformations for Achieving Interoperability in AmI.- Interoperability of Decision Models.- A Decentralized Approach for Inter-Enterprise Business Process Collaboration.- Towards a Conceptualization of Decisional Interoperability.- Interoperability and Synergism of Decision, Information and Flexibility to Improve Performances of Enterprise Systems: KM Implications.- Inter-organisational Interoperability.- Service Typing in Collaborative Systems.- Decentralized Metadata Development for Open B2B Electronic Business.- The TrustCoM Approach to Enforcing Agreements between Interoperating Enterprises.- Organisational Inter-operability: Towards Enterprise Urbanism.- An Integrated Approach for Organizational Data Interoperability.- Managing the Lifecycle of Cross-organizational Collaborative Business Processes.- Interoperability through Model-based Generation: The Case of the Collaborative Information System (CIS).- A Natural Basis for Interoperability.- Designing a Modular Infrastructure for Exploratory Integration of Interoperability Approaches.- Interoperability of Manufacturing Enterprise Applications.- Supply Chain Management System and Interoperability through EAI Platform.- Enhancing Interoperability of Manufacturing Software Units Using Capability Profiling.- Towards a Product Oriented Process Modelling for Enterprise Applications Synchronisation and Interoperability.- Business Models Interoperability.- Developing Interoperable Business Processes Using Web Services and Policies.- Talea: An Extensible Framework for E-Business Integration.- A Complexity Based Approach to Collaborations in the Tool and Die Industry.- Modelling Inter-organizational Workflow Security in a Peer-to-Peer Environment.- Enterprise Software with Half-Duplex Interoperations.- e-Proc a TO BE Scenario for Business Interoperability.- Standards for Interoperability.- ICT Standards Development - Finding the Best Platform.- Experts on Causes of Incompatibility between Standard-Compliant Products.- Achieving Influence on Standardisation Bodies.- Intero…