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ICEIMT'97

International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling Technology 1997

An International Initiative lead by

USA--NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

and

Europe--CIMOSA Association

General Announcement

Rationale:

Application of enterprise-integration technologies has been hampered by a lack of business justification, a plethora of seemingly conflicting solutions and terminology, and by an insufficient understanding of the technology by the end-user community. These barriers inhibit, or at least delay, the use of relevant methods and tools in the industry, especially in small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At the same time, the need is intensifying to operate agilely, to form and dissolve partnerships rapidly, and to integrate business discourse internationally. The global co-operation will identify the barriers, develop solutions to problems, communicate results, and help to justify the technology to industry so that it can be moved profitably from the international R&D community to broadly based implementation.

Objectives:

To achieve international consensus on selected issues in enterprise modelling and enterprise integration technologies, and:

• Broaden the consensus of harmonised enterprise integration technology solutions in the international R&D community,
• Establish an international forum to identify and eliminate barriers to enterprise integration technology utilisation and to communicate successful implementations.
• Support and plan for harmonisation of enterprise integration related technology and standards to eliminate barriers.
• Increase public awareness on and recognition of enterprise-integration benefits through information dissemination about consensus results with focus on the industrial community.

Method:

Using the experience gained in the previous EC/US collaboration project in 1991/92, the initiative will identify major issues in business and enterprise integration and will organise a series of five workshops with international experts. These experts will try to resolve or at least lessen the impact of these issues and thereby increase international consensus on enterprise integration and enterprise modelling. The results from the workshops will be presented in the concluding conference, ICEIMT'97. Conference proceedings, publication of papers, and subsequent workshops for information dissemination will make the results publicly available.

Workshop participants will present brief papers on EI-relevant subjects (architectures, solutions, or standards). Each paper should characterize a proposal, or a comparison of proposals, in terms of issues and questions defined for each workshop topic. Selected papers will be refined between the workshop and the conference, where they will be presented in final form, along with a synopsis of the workshop results.

Dates:

• Workshops on Issues April through July 1997 (Locations USA and Europe),
• ICEIMT'97: 1997 October 28/30 --Torino, Italy
• Information dissemination: Publication available at the Conference with follow-up workshops to be announced.

Participation:

Each workshop was limited to approximately 15 experts selected by a Technical Planning Committee

Contacts:

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Edited by: JG Nell, NIST. Updated 1997-July-17.
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