Jim,
I attached below the abstract that was requested by your call. I will prepare a paper on this topic and post it at my www site later. I would like to speak to the audience and also want to join the drafting committe (if it is established) of the workshop to reflect our opinion to ISO/IEC.
Title: International Standards as the Only Way to Assure Unlimited Integration
Abstract
Historically, multiple modelling standards were developed in each of their application domains. For example, engineering applications used EXPRESS and business applications used SQL. As long as each application can be handled by one modelling product that conforms to one standard of a particular background, the problem is not serious. But due to the integration requirements over plural application domains, the tasks become very difficult or infeasible simply because modelling standards used are not compatible.
Though a single modelling standard is desirable, it will not be a practical solution. We should search for a harmonized family of modelling standards instead. To help achieve this objective, this paper proposes conceptual integration of multiple modelling standards. In this paper, we concentrate only on data aspect of the modelling standard.
Ryosuke Hotaka