CIMOSA - News
Vol. 11/2, date
2004-07-15
ISSN 1618-1646
Editor: Martin Zelm, Gehenbuehlstr.
18A, D-70499
Stuttgart, martin.zelm@cimosa.de
The CIMOSA - News is published by the CIMOSA
Association. The CIMOSA News will report on CIMOSA applications,
evolution of its technical specification, advancements in
standardisation and related items. Contributions from other parties are
welcome. The CIMOSA - News will be printed periodically and is also
available in the internet at http://www.cimosa.de.
Contents
ICEIMT'04
The ICEIMT series of conferences 1992, 1997
and
2002 was originally started as a strategic initiative of the United States
and the European Union to harmonise research activities on enterprise
integration,
to build consensus on relevant contents and terminology and to make
recommendations
to industry and research.
Reminder: The ICEIMT will be held on October 09-11, 2004 in
Tornonto,
Canada
Find more details on www.eil.utoronto.ca/ICEIMT04
INTEROP (IST–2003–508011)
For their second Workshop, the INTEROP partners met in
Mallorca,
Spain, 2004-05-22/25. The event gathered 100 European researchers, who
attended
meetings of the different WPs and inter-WP cluster sessions, as well as
presentations
on the INTEROP Platform and tutorials on Enterprise Modelling, Ontology
and
Architectures and Platforms. Next workshop will be held in Berlin,
Germany,
2004-09-22/25.
A first INTEROP exchange
forum has been held in Geneva, Switzerland,
2004-07-12/16 as part of the INTEROP mobility programme. The three workshops addressed
the major themes of the INTEROP initiative: architectures and platforms, ontologies and methods. With
workshop attendance up to 20 participants people presented their
relevant work, which
was further discussed during the workshop. Exchange of information
between participants will continue using both electronic means and by
collaborations
under the INTEROP mobility programme.
The INTEROP Collaborative Platform
(www.interop-noe.org) is implemented using ZOPE/PLONE, an Open
Source
Content Management System and offers:
- asynchronous
collaboration methods to allow topics discussion among geographically
distributed
researchers
- synchronous
collaboration methods to allow web-conferences and application sharing
- knowledge
management methods to allow knowledge dissemination between partners
and long-distance learning and training
Thereby
it supports joint research, exchange of specific knowledge produced by
network
members and provides knowledge dissemination to the public.
The platform contains newsletters, presentations, reports
from past and upcoming events as well as project items like the
Knowledge Map, reports from group activities, discussions and
performance indicators.
The knowledge volume is continuously enlarged, and more functionalities
will
be added.
Reports from Events
CAiSE, the Ninth International Conference on Advanced
Informations
System Engineering was held in Riga, Latvia on 2004-06-07/08,
attended
by about 200 participants. Preceding the conference were eight
workshops
with about 25 participants per workshop. The workshops were under the
overall
theme ‘Knowledge and Model Driven Information Systems Engineering for
Networked
Organsations’. Four of the workshops addressed modelling methods of
business
processes or of information systems, namely:
BPMDS (The fifth Workshop on Business Process Modelling,
Development,
and Support). This workshop was devoted to Business Process Modelling
(BPM)
and Business Process Support (BPS) systems with the specific theme
being
the creation and maintenance of fit (or misfit) between the BPS system
view
and the business processes.
EMOI - INTEROP 2004 (Enterprise
Modelling and Ontologies for Interoperability). This workshop contained
both papers from INTEROP Workpackages as the Knowledge Map, the Common
Enterprise Modelling Framework UEML 2.0 and Ontology based integration
as well as invited complementing papers.
EMMSAD'04 (Evaluation of Modelling Methods in Systems Analysis and
Design).
The workshop focussed on evaluating
and
enhancing current information modeling methodologies and on evolutions
in analysis, design and development of information systems.
WISM'04 (Web Information System Modelling). This workshop
addressed
the challenges to integrate data and data formats coming from different
sources
e.g. to support the conversion of data from legacy data to universal
interchange
formats like XML.
The other four workshops addressed requirements
engineering,foundations of software
quality, ubiquitous mobile information and collaborating systems.
The
workshop proceedings have been published by the Faculty of Computer
Science
and Information Technology, Riga University, ISBN 9984-9767-x-y. The
proceedings of the CAiSE Conference have been published by Springer
Verlag,
ISBN 3-540-22151-4. For more information visit www.cs.rtu.lv/caise2004
ISO TC184 SC5/WG1 Modelling and Architectures, Paris, 2004-04-19/21 on
Standards
for Enterprise
Integration and Interoperability. The meeting was attended by 9 people
representing
6 countries: China,
Germany, France,
Japan, UK, USA. D. Chen and K. Kosanke
reported
on the EU Initiatives in the 6th Framework Programme ATHENA and
INTEROP.
Both initiatives are working on interoperability with the ATHENA
Integrated
Project (IP) involved in technical, more implementation oriented work
and
the Network-of-Excellence (NoE) initiative INTEROP focusing on joint
research.
Special emphasis in both initiatives is on dissemination to
standardisation
bodies.
A new work item on interoperability, the NWIP
(New Work Item Proposal) for Interoperable Process Modelling Standard:
has
been launched. The discussion on the content of a potential standards
revealed
a dependency on the two EU initiatives ATHENA and INTEROP, the
potential
project leader K. Kosanke to establish contact and report on results at
the
next WG1 meeting in Toronto, 2004-10-12/14.
IEC/SC 65A-ISO/TC 184/SC 5/JWG 15, convenor Dennis Brandl, held a meeting in Bordeaux on June 2004-06- 16-18, with 10
participants
from 5 countries: USA,
France, Italy, Switzerland
and Germany.
Objective of the meeting was to 1)
Develop
a draft work item for 62264-3, and prepare comments for the ISA 95 Part
3
final voting, 2) Review Draft 17 of ISA S95-3 and 3) Examine the
dissemination
efforts and the status of liaisons of JWG15 with other organisations.
Major Actions: Produce a White Paper on usability and implementation
benefits
of 62264. Draft a section and an Annex concerning the Decisional
Reference
Model. Establish liaisons with the World Batch Forum and with the
European
projects ATHENA-IP and INTEROP-NoE. Develop a paper to
establish
use of SC4 definitions (e.g. resource, raw material, equipment) with
IEC
62264 definitions. Next JWG15
meeting:
2004-11-17/19 at NEMA in Washington DC, USA.
For more information contact Dennis Brandl,
dnbrandl
@brlconsulting.com
Publication
Reviews
J. Wagner, K. Schwarzenbacher,
Föderative Unternehmensprozesse (Federated Business Processes),
Technologies, Standards and Perspectives of Network Systems, (in
German, English translation considered).The
authors understand federated business processes as a concept
to organise contract-based co-operations between independent
organisations.
A key advantage of the concept is the hiding of the internal structure
and
knowledge of the individual processes from the participating
organisations. The book with its focus on
technologies for interoperation,
provides a good source of information on the current state of the art,
providing
a short outlook on the future as well. The authors present a range of
core
concepts for modelling, implementing and monitoring business processes.
Related
products and standards are identified.
Publisher:
Siemens, Publicis Corporate Publishing, Erlangen, 2004, ISBN 3-89578-231-9, http://www.publicis-erlangen.de/books
Upcoming Events
- CE2004 Beijing, China,
2004-07-26/30, www.ce2004.org/
- WCC2004, IFIP World
Computer
Congress, Toulouse,
France, 2004-08-22/27, www.wcc2004.org/
- CDVE2004,
Palma
de Malorca, Spain, 2004-09-19/22 http://dmi.uib.es/people/yuhua/CDVE2004/
- BASYS'04, Vienna,
Austria, 2004-09-27/29,
special
track on networked enterprises, www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/basys2004/
- ASIM 2004, Berlin/Germany,
2004-10-04/06, www.asim.fhg.de/
- ICEIMT’04, Toronto, Canada,
2004 -10-09-11, www.eil.utoronto.ca/ICEIMT04
- eChallenges / e-2004, Conference
& Exhibition, Vienna, Austria,
2004-10-27/29, www.echallenges.org
- An INTEROP
Conference
is planned for 2005-02-23/25 in Geneva, Switzerland
CIMOSA
Association
The CIMOSA Association (COA) is a non-profit organisation involved
in
promotion
of Enterprise Engineering and Integration based on CIMOSA and its
active
support in national, European and international standardisation. COA
members
are industrial and research organisations.