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Workshop Organization
Workshop 1: USA: 1997-April-16/18 (Location: NIST, Gaithersburg MD)
ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATION AND HUMAN ISSUES
Assess the impact of EI on organizational evolution of enterprises and consider human factors and society aspects. This would be all of the executive-level stuff that comprise the real barriers--even more than technical ones.
Related Themes:
- Extended enterprise, Agile enterprise, Virtual enterprise, Holonic enterprise.
- Enterprise integration and human aspects, Information dissemination to industry (SMEs) and workforce education issues concerning EI and IT, Business process reengineering and the organization structure.
- Cultural dimensions of groups and teamwork in organizations, Social impact of EI problems if integration succeeds.
- Salary incentives to encourage cooperation, Organizational power, Span-of-control problems
- Government incentives needed?
Workshop 2: USA: 1997-April-21/23 (Location: NIST, Gaithersburg MD)
ENTERPRISE METRICS AND STRATEGIC STANDARDIZATION POLICY.
Assess the quality and competency of enterprise models and investigate needs for standards development.
Related Themes:
- Enterprise metrics for integration improvements, Metrics for model quality (adequacy, completeness, etc.), Metrics for model use (quality of decision support, design of optimization/simulation experiments, etc.)
- Metrics to assess level of integration in an enterprise
- Strategic standardization policy for improving integration
- Standards for better integration, Standards for enterprise modeling (Unified business-process model, Modeling languages), Workflow process-description language (WPDL), Integrating infrastructure-standard services, STEP/EXPRESS, EDI, SGML, Standardization work in ISO, CEN, etc.
Workshop 3: Europe: 1997-June-11/13 (Location: Brussels, Belgium)
ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION APPLICATIONS
Assess the contributions to EI by the many application areas currently promoted. This includes definition of the problems, challenges, barriers, and strategies that exist to resolve them.
Related Themes:
- EI in discrete-parts manufacturing, EI in the process industry, Virtual/extended enterprise
- Business-process modeling - Business-process reengineering (BPR), Continuous product-process improvement (concurrent engineering), Workflow modeling, Workflow/process-model enactment, Agent-based approaches, Holonic-manufacturing systems, Cooperative-information systems
Workshop 4: Europe: 1997-June-16/18 (Location: Brussels, Belgium)
ENTERPRISE-INTEGRATION PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS (includes SEMANTIC ISSUES)
Assess the needs in EI and the many solutions currently proposed. This is an introduction to, and definition of, the problems, challenges, barriers, and strategies that exist to resolve them. We can standardize the protocols and interconnections all we want but until we fix the semantic problem we will not be able to communicate sufficiently to accomplish the degree of functionality we need.
Related Themes:
- Enterprise characterization, Enterprise frameworks and reference architectures, Methodologies for EI, Enterprise-modeling principles, Ontologies for enterprise modeling and integration,
- Formal models and languages for EI, Formal process description techniques, Workflow-process-description language, Enterprise-modeling languages, Terminology, Languages, Modeling symbols, Meta data, Unified business-process model, Registration, Thesauri of context, Transferring meaning by machine for machine action,
Workshop 5: USA: 1997-June-30/July-02 (Location: NIST, Gaithersburg MD)
VENDOR SUPPORT FOR USERS OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION
This is matching problems with solutions that are, or are becoming, available. These could be standards, protocols, software products, mediation techniques. Make a state-of-the-art review and increase consensus among tools developers and tool users on model representation and EI capabilities.
Related Themes:
- User Requirements, Enterprise-modeling methodologies,
- Business-process modeling tools, Workflow-modeling tools, BPR tools, Simulation tools for enterprise modeling, Integrating-infrastructure issues and integrating services, Integration platforms (OLE, DCE, CORBA and the like), Standards (STEP, EDI, etc.). Legacy-systems integration, Federated versus integrated approaches, Repositories
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Edited by: Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Association, ICEIMT97 European Coordinator, and JG Nell, NIST, ICEIMT97 US Coordinator
Updated: 17 July 1997
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