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Support for Forming Support for Forming Temporal Business Alliances Temporal Business Alliances
as Networked Enterprisesas Networked Enterprises
Marián Mach1, Peter Bednár1, Karol Furdík2
1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia
{marian.mach, peter.bednar}@tuke.sk
2 InterSoft, a.s., Floriánska 19, 040 01 Košice, [email protected]
CECIIS 2009 - Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent SystemsVaraždin, Croatia, September 23 - 25, 2009
ContentsContents
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Introduction, motivation
Project SPIKE: basic facts, vision
System architecture Architecture design
System components, structure of functional managers
System data, ontology design Information view, data elements
Conceptual perspective, ontology design
Technology used
Pilot applications
Conclusions, future work
MotivationMotivation
Networked enterprises: combining BP modelling, semantic technologies, security infrastructure to support a creation and maintenance of short-term business alliances
Related projects: STASIS (FP6-034980, www.stasis-project.net): eEconomy services,
semantic interoperability; TrustCom (FP6-001945, www.eu-trustcom.com): framework for Virtual
Organisations; OPUCE (FP6-034101, www.opuce.tid.es): service environment,
infrastructure for collaborative and dynamic loosely coupled services; SUPER (FP6-026850, www.ip-super.org): modular architecture for
semantic BPM. other projects and research groups focused on SWS, Security, Identity
Management and Privacy, Process-Oriented Knowledge Management, etc.
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Project SPIKE - Basic factsProject SPIKE - Basic facts
SPIKE: Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises
Web: www.spike-project.eu FP7 ICT EU project, FP7-2007-217098
FP7-ICT-Call1, Challenge 1 - Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures, ICT in support of the networked enterprise
Duration: 01/2008 – 12/2010 (36 months) Consortium: 8 partners from 5 countries (GE,A,FIN,ESP,SK)
Coordinator: University of Regensburg, GE 3 Pilot applications in Austria and Finland
Main objective: Development of a software service platform for the easy, secure, and fast
start-up of short-term and project-based business alliances.
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SPIKE visionSPIKE vision
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Architecture designArchitecture design
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Methodology:
spec. of viewpoints, perspectives, stakeholders
Scope - functional viewpoint, levels of collaboration: Collaborative processes: modeled by patterns - business processes,
incl. steps/activities, resources/artefacts, workflow structures, semantic description of processes.
Sharing services: environment for offering and contracting services, based on project-oriented workflow.
Identity federation: SPIKE as mediator to enable access to internal resources of/between alliance partners.
Architecture - system components (1)Architecture - system components (1)
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SPIKE System Core: back end, system data processing
SPIKE Service Bus: internal / external communication
Architecture - system components (2)Architecture - system components (2)
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SPIKE Portal Instance: End users’ front-end to
the system responsible for internal /
external communication
SPIKE Administration, Monitoring & Reporting:
System management Reporting facilities
Functional description of managersFunctional description of managers
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17 managers have been broken down into 48 modules Description of each manager consists of:
Context of the manager Supported use cases Structure of the manager
Modules with their APIs and dependencies Interactions among manager’s modules
AllianceManager
DisplayManager
CommunicationManager
InterfaceManager
SecurityManager
WrapperManager
Intra PortletManager
SessionManager
ProcessManager
SemanticManager
SearchManager
ReportManager
NotificationManager
IdentityManager
ContentManager
PlatformManager
ServiceManager
Information view - data elementsInformation view - data elements
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Conceptual perspectiveConceptual perspective
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Ontologies designed according to the data elements: Core, Resource, Service, Domain, System, Business process, & User
ontologies WSMO platform, WSML ontology representation WSMO Lite conceptual model Existing ontologies reused: Dublin Core, WSMO ontologies, SKOS,
vCard, SIOC, ontologies of project SUPER, etc. Methodology: Requirement-driven approach
Semantic BP modelling Creation of BP models for ACs Identification of information
resources exchanged in the process
Semantic annotation of process elements (sub-processes, tasks, activities, services)
Technology usedTechnology used
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Open Source, Java-based Ontologies and semantic annotation:
WSMO framework, WSMO Studio (www.wsmostudio.org)
BP modelling: based on BPMN/BPEL, BPMO Modeller (of WSMO Studio), sBPEL ontology.
Enterprise Service Bus: Java Business Integration (JBI) compliant ESB (Apache
ServiceMIX, OpenESB)
Portal integration layer: Intalio Tempo Security:
Single Sign On service & Authentication: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL),
PERMIS infrastructure for authorization
Pilot applicationsPilot applications
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1. Information hotel Controlling and automation of the supplier vs. client documentation
management processes and related sub-processes Use cases: uploading, sending, receiving docs from supplier,
verifying uploaded docs, verifying received docs near deadline, sending reminder messages to suppliers, ...
2. Legacy applications Location of services of partners, integration into workflows. Use cases: maintenance of service providers, service information
and configuration, tracking services, contracting and ordering services,...
3. Identity federation Enable access to the inner infrastructure of partners within an
alliance to support effective collaboration. Use cases: collaboration setup and maintenance, role and resource
management
ConclusionsConclusions
Work done so far: User requirements and application cases specified for all the pilots;
Guidelines, methodology and toolchain for semantic mark-up of the processes and resources provided, development of ontologies and BP models is in progress;
Architecture of the platform designed, functional components identified and described in their mutual interactions, detailed specification created, technology frameworks identified, implementation is ongoing.
Future work: System implementation: 1st prototype (10/09) Semantic BP modelling: Development of the resource ontologies and BP
models (10/09) 1st trial of the pilot applications, validation of the SPIKE platform on the
application cases (11-12/09)
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Questions?Questions?
More info: http://www.spike-project.eu
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