CIMOSA Association e.V. CIM c/o K. Kosanke Tel: (49) 7031 27 76 65 Stockholmer Str. 7 FAX: (49) 7031 27 66 98 OSA D-71034 Böblingen E-Mail: <[email protected]> Vol. 13/1 date 2006-04-15 ISSN 1618-1638 CIMOSA - News Editor: Martin Zelm, Gehenbuehlstr. 18A, D-70499 Stuttgart, [email protected] The CIMOSA - News is published by the CIMOSA Association. The CIMOSA News reports 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. INTEROP (IST-2003-508011) research priorities and to discuss those with all stakeholders involved and with representatives of The I-ESA 2006 conference has been held in the project cluster. The latter have drafted a ver- Bordeaux, 2006-03-22/24. The conference was sion of the roadmap to which written contribu- organised by two of the European interoperability tions are strongly encouraged. The present draft cluster projects – INTEROP and ATHENA and document can be downloaded from the CORDIS held jointly with the eGovernment conference of site at the eGov project. A total of 76 papers together ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/directorate_d/ebusi with 6 keynote papers have been presented during ness/20060315_roadmap_v20.pdf the I-ESA conference in plenary and parallel ses- ii) workshop on Interoperability Challenges for sions, the latter including well-organised poster SMEs with the objective to expand the under- sessions. standing on, needs, solutions and benefits of Starting with a view on the changing context of business interoperability. The workshop was ad- enterprise interoperability research by G. San- dressing data exchange experience and problems tucci, Head of the Unit ‘ICT for Enterprise Net- facing SMEs in the daily operation as well as in- working’ at the DG ‘Information Society and volving the research community and make their Media’ of the European Commission, the keynote efforts appropriate to SME’s business needs. The workshop started with a cross sector field survey sessions continued with 4 papers presenting the on eBusiness interoperability and standards. Fur- view of industrial users (Verizon, Siemens) and ther, the problems being experienced and faced software providers (Microsoft, SAP). Two papers by SMEs were presented by SME representatives presented by INTEROP and ATHENA on their and by regional and national SMEs organizations efforts on community building - Virtual Lab and from 5 countries. The current understanding Enterprise Interoperability Centre, respectively - based on the work of the European projects completed the keynote sessions. INTEROP, ATHENA and ECOLEAD as well as The emphasis of the research papers was on the the view of an automation provider was pre- main areas of the INTEROP and ATHENA pro- sented. It was concluded that there are differences jects: Enterprise Modelling, Ontologies and Plat- in time frames and in complexity of products and forms. Papers on standardisation and trust com- service life cycles of SMEs as for instance be- plemented the research on interoperability efforts. tween the Automotive/Aerospace sector and the A short summary of all papers is provided on the Textile sector and that national intermediaries representing sectors in countries can best support CIMOSA Web site www.cimosa.de/ following in the individual SME. the same sequence as above, but introducing a nd few sub-headings to structure the papers accord- iii) 2 International Workshop on Enterprise In- ing to their main content. Conference proceedings tegration, Interoperability and Networking will be published by Springer-Verlag. (EI2N’2006) with four sessions and a total of 6 papers finalizing in a workshop café with a num- A pre-conference program with a doctoral sym- ber of working groups addressing different sub- posium, two tutorials and five workshops com- topics of the workshop theme. The papers cov- plemented the I-ESA 2006 Conference. Three of ered modelling languages (UEML), ontologies, these, workshops are mentioned in particular: an interoperability framework and design princi- i) workshop on Enterprise Interoperability ples. Proceedings of the workshop will be pub- Roadmap with focus on research in the 7th lished in specific workshop proceedings by Framework Programme, organised by the Euro- Springer-Verlag as well. pean Commission, DG INFSO D5 . This work- Workshop reports and presentations will be avail- shop is part of an ongoing activity to define future able at the I-ESA conference site www.i-esa.org/. CIMOSA Association e.V., at WZL Forum/ADITEC, Steinbachstr. 25, D-52074 Aachen, Registered at the Court of Aachen/Germany, Registr. Nr. 3225 Page 1 of 2 Reports from Events (see below) for final acceptance. Next CEN meet- Intellectual Capital Measurement (ICM) – a ing to be held in Paris again on 2006-09-25/27 BITKOM Workshop held in Frankfurt, Germany alternatively as part of the one after next 2005-11-10. The agenda consisted of three paper SC5/WG1 meeting in Paris on 2006-10-04/06. and 2 video presentations on user experiences ISO TC 184 SC5/WG1 Modelling and Archi- with the implementation of ICM systems, which tectures will have its next meeting in Monter- are the result of a project ‘Wissensbilanz – made rey/Mexico, 2006-05-22/24. Agenda items are the in Germany’ sponsored by the German Ministry new work item on process modelling methods, of Economy and Work (BMWA). This ongoing comments from CEN ISO 19440, systematic re- project has developed a process oriented refer- view of ISO 15704 and a potential CEN ISO new ence model for building ICM systems imple- work item proposal (NWIP) on interoperability. mented in the MO2GO tool with the IEM meth- odology. The corresponding particular model is Upcoming Events using operational data and other management and • 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Con- performance indicators. The reference model has trol Problems in Manufacturing INCOM’2006, been validated in 14 SMEs in Germany - result- St. Etienne, France, 2006-05-17/19, ing in an Intellectual Capital Report which is http://www.emse.fr/incom06 meant to complement other management tools • CAiSE'06, 18th Conference on Advanced In- such as Capital Asset Statement, Balanced Score- formation Systems Engineering Trusted In- card, Quality Management, etc. formation Systems, Luxembourg, 2006-06- The presentations from SME users, e.g. a Docu- 05/09, http://www.tudor.lu/caise06; jointly mentation Service Provider Reinisch, from an with INTEROP WS on Enterprise Modelling Automotive Software Developer Xcc, showed and Ontologies for Interoperability that the process model could be successfully ap- plied. Three workshops moderated by expert con- • 11th EURAS Workshop on ‘Standardisation sultants provided user training enabling those to and Network Effects – New Challenges to employ and maintain the methodology. Main European Policy’ Hamburg, Germany, 2006- benefits are a better transparency of the Intellec- 06-08/09, http://www.EURAS.org tual Capital (IC) and derived business opportuni- • 12th Intern. Conference on Concurrent Engi- ties, including for instance improved bank loan neering ICE 2006, Milan, Italy 2006-06-26/28, conditions. A presentation from the Corporate http://www.ice-conference.org/ KM office of Siemens showed in addition to the • 13th ISPE Intern. Conf. On Concurrent Eng.: basic reference model further tools of a control Antibes, French Riviera, 2006-09-18/22 Sep- panel to display Relational Human Capital and a tember, 2006, http://www.ce2006.org portfolio diagram to validate the importance of • BPM’2006, 4th International Conference on current and future projects. Business Process Modelling, Vienna, Austria, The final discussion centred on the topics of ad- 2006-09-xx, http://bpm2006.tuwien.ac.at/cfw/; vantages and limitation of ICM, monetary value jointly with ENEI 2006, 2nd International of Intellectual Capital and standardisation aspects. Workshop on Enterprise and Networked En- The benefits are in place as long as an enterprise terprises Interoperability can draw business value from this management tool. This is more probable for knowledge inten- • PRO-VE’06, 7th IFIP Working Conference on sive enterprises. Virtual Enterprises, Helsinki, Finland, 2006- 09-25/27, http://www.pro-ve.org EE&I Standardisation • Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architec- CEN TC 310 WG 1 Modelling and Architec- ture Research (TEAR 2006), Hong Kong, tures held a meeting in Paris, France, 2006-03- 2006-10-16, http://tear2006.telin.nl/ 14/16 with its main objective to resolve the com- • e-Challenges 2006, 16th EU annual conference ments from the DIS ballot of CEN ISO 19440, Barcelona, Spain, 2006-10-25/27, constructs on enterprise modelling. The meeting http://www.echallenges.org/e2006/ was attended by participants from France, Ger- ________________________________________ many and UK. The ballot itself improved the The CIMOSA Association (COA) is a non-profit organisation standard with a 12 to one vote. The results of the involved in promotion and European and international stan- meeting will be presented at the next ISO meeting dardisation of Enterprise Engineering and Integration. 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