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"FP6-2004-IST-ATH-B5 ATHENA (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise

Networks and their Applications) subproject B5.10 Validation Testing: Inventory Visibility"

Marija JankovicFaculty of Organisational Sciencies

16 October 2008, Belgrade

FOS Sub-projects presentation

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Agenda• About ATHENA project

• About FOS sub-projects

"FP6-2004-IST-ATH-B5 ATHENA (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their

Applications) subproject B5.10 Validation Testing: Inventory Visibility"

1 ATHENA Enterprise Modelling Area (A1) Results Validation

2 APOLON – An Open Source, Experimental Inventory Visibility Tool

• Results• Plans for future FP7 projects

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ATHENA Fact Sheet

• Founded by the European Commission (Budget: 26.5 Mio€)

• Duratation: 3 Years• Strategic Objective: Network Businesses and

Goverments• Vision: By 2010, enterprises will be able to seamlessly

interoperate with others• Objective: Contribution to enabling enterprises to

seamlessly interoperate with others

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ATHENA – Consortium (M24)

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Our Sub-project Consortium

• AIAG*, Automotive Industry Action Group, USA• NIST, National Institute of Standards and

Technology, USA• KorBIT, Korean B2B Interoperability Testbed• FOS*, Faculty of Organisational Sciences• Industry participants (e.g., Ford Motor co.,

General Motors Corp.,)

* AIAG anb FOS were ATHENA IP Contractors

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Athena structure

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AIAG A1 Validation Pilot - Scope

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FOS Sub-projects (1)

ATHENA B5.10 Sub-Project: Inventory Visibility and Interoperability Enterprise Modelling

Area (A1) Results Validation

• Prof. dr Zoran Marjanovic, FOS• Dr Nenad Ivezic, NIST• Thomas Knothe, Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin• Mr Marija Jankovic, FOS

Team members:

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Overview

• Problem area and research objectives• Introduction to POP* metamodel• Supporting architecture• Research approach• Applied solution

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Problem area and validation objectives

• To validate that is possible to exchange models between different EM tools using ATHENA specific solutions:

- POP* (Proces, Organisation, Product and Other) metamodel - MPCE (Modeling Platform for Collaborative Enterprises)

• To formalize horizontal interoperability of enterprise models

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POP* and MPCE

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POP* metamodel

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Functional approach

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Results: Steps for POP* based model exchange

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Steps for POP* based model exchange

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MOGO Partial model

Publish Signal

1.11.1

Publish Signal

1.11.1

Recevie SignalRecevie Signal Receive Signal

1.11.2

Receive Signal

1.11.2

SupplierSupplierCustomerCustomer

Process

State

Org. unit

MO2GO – POP* Interface

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ARIS Partial model

CustomerCustomer

Publish signal Receive signal Receive signal

SupplierSupplier

Activity

Event

Organization

ARIS – POP* Interface

Activity

Event

Organization

ARIS – POP* Interface

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FOS Sub-projects (2)

ATHENA B5.10 Sub-Project: FOS IV&I tool – An Open Source, Experimental Inventory Visibility

Tool development

• Prof. dr Zoran Marjanovic, FOS• Dr Nenad Ivezic, NIST• Zoran Kokovic, FOS • Vuk Ljubicic, FOS• Igor Miletic, Breza Software Engineering• Marko Vujasinovic, Breza Software Engineering

Team members:

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Overview

• Research objectives• IV&I non-functional specification• IV&I eKanban application specification

– Activity flow diagrams– System sequnce diagrams

• IV&I tool main implementation characteristics– IV&I tool architecture– Implementation enviromnent– IV&I tool user interface

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Research objectives

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IV&I non-functional specification• Monitoring statuses of Kanbans

• Creating 4 Types of Business Object Documents

• Translating BODs into RDF Format using DO

• Sending messages to other IV&I tools

• Message validation

• Special mechanisms for finding domain entities and for

automatic error reporting

• Plenty of standard IV functionalities

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WS Interface

IV&I tool architecture

Database

XML / RDFAdapter

BusinessComponent

Apolon Web Client

Messaging

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IV&I tool architecture

IV&I Web client• has responsibilty to accept and transfer data

Business component• encapsulates the whole business logic• has responsibilty of taking input data from both, Client interface

and XML-RDF Adapter

Web service interface• supports interoperable communication between tools

XML-RDF Adapter• has responsibilty to transform domain entity model into common

message exchange schema and vice versa

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IV&I tool user interface

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IV&I tool user interface

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Results: Validation Pilot Demo

• Results were previewed at:

– the AIAG Enterprise Interoperability Showcase: ATHENA Validation Pilot Demonstration (November 15, 2006., Detroit)

– and later at the Final Project Review during the IESA 2007 Conference in Madeira, Portugal in March

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Results: Validation Pilot Demo

• FOS IV application (running in Belgrade, Serbia) successfully exchanged information with the Ford Test Harmes (running in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)• Both GM and FOS applications used the NIST-developed Gateway

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Results: Validation Pilot Demo

Our validation pilot demonstrations• were seen as very helpful to understand the

ATHENA concepts• In the Commission’s feedback for the Final

Review was recommended to use the AIAG demo as an example to disseminate ATHENA technology

…..”to tell the ATHENA story”…..

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Results: Contacts

• Further cooperation with ATHENA partners– NIST, USA – Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin– University of Athens, Greece….

• More than 15 published papers in the leading international magazines and conferences

• exchange of knowledge and experiences by means of seminars and visiting lecturers

• Students exchange • Meetings in order to discuss possibilities for new FP7 Projects

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FP7 Project application

• Programme “Research for SMEs” – Call ID “FP7-SME-2008-1”

• Proposal N 232465 – NEXT• Proposal title: “Next – Generation Interoperability

for IT SMEs”

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FP7 Project application

• The consortium comprises IT SMEs and Research Centers from 4 different countries:

– National Technical University of Athens, Greece– Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany– Technical University, Middle Eastern, Turkey– Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Serbia

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Questions and answers

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