TY - GEN
T1 - Monitoring morphisms to support sustainable interoperability of enterprise systems
AU - Ferreira, José
AU - Agostinho, Carlos
AU - Sarraipa, João
AU - Jardim-Gonçalves, Ricardo
PY - 2011/11/21
Y1 - 2011/11/21
N2 - Nowadays, organizations are required to be part of a global collaborative world. Sometimes this is the only way they can access new and wider markets, reaching new opportunities, skills and sharing assets, e.g. tools, lessons learnt. However, due to the different sources of enterprise models and semantics, organizations are experiencing difficulties in exchanging information electronically and seamlessly. To solve this issue, most of them try to attain interoperability by establishing peer-to-peer mapping morphisms with different business partners, or in optimized networks use neutral data standards to regulate communications. Moreover, more and more enterprise systems are dynamic, looking forward to meet further requirements, causing new interoperability problems and efficiency reduction. This paper proposes a multi-agent framework to monitor existing enterprise system networks, being capable of detecting morphism changes. An example from systems engineering is presented, where network harmonization breakings are timely detected, and possible solutions are suggested to regain the interoperable status, thus enhancing robustness for reaching sustainability of business networks.
AB - Nowadays, organizations are required to be part of a global collaborative world. Sometimes this is the only way they can access new and wider markets, reaching new opportunities, skills and sharing assets, e.g. tools, lessons learnt. However, due to the different sources of enterprise models and semantics, organizations are experiencing difficulties in exchanging information electronically and seamlessly. To solve this issue, most of them try to attain interoperability by establishing peer-to-peer mapping morphisms with different business partners, or in optimized networks use neutral data standards to regulate communications. Moreover, more and more enterprise systems are dynamic, looking forward to meet further requirements, causing new interoperability problems and efficiency reduction. This paper proposes a multi-agent framework to monitor existing enterprise system networks, being capable of detecting morphism changes. An example from systems engineering is presented, where network harmonization breakings are timely detected, and possible solutions are suggested to regain the interoperable status, thus enhancing robustness for reaching sustainability of business networks.
KW - Interoperability
KW - Model Morphisms
KW - Model-Based Systems Engineering
KW - Multi Agent Systems
KW - Sustainable Interoperability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81255167166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25126-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25126-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81255167166
SN - 978-3-642-25125-2
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 71
EP - 82
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2011 Workshops - Confederated Int. Workshops and Posters: EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP+INBAST, ISDE, ORM, OTMA, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS, and VADER 2011, Proceedings
A2 - Meersman, R.
A2 - Dillion, T.
A2 - Herrero, P.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
T2 - 10th Confederated International Workshops and Posters on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2011: EI2N+NSF ICE 2011, ICSP+INBAST 2011, ISDE 2011, ORM 2011, OTMA 2011, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS 2011, and VADER 2011
Y2 - 17 October 2011 through 21 October 2011
ER -