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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1414/preface.pdf
The 6th IWEI Working Conference (IWEI 2015) was held in Nîmes, France, with a workshop
day on May 27, 2015. The program with a total of 13 papers was composed of three workshops
with distinct future oriented themes in context with Enterprise Interoperability (EI): Big Data and
EI, New challenges for EI: the Sensing Enterprise, and Standardization for EI bridging the gap
with research. The workshop proceedings are published online at CEUR-Workshop.org. The
presentations have been posted at the IWEI website.
Workshop 1 aimed to provide understanding how enterprises deploy Big Data in products and
services, and to learn about challenges, benefits and impacts. Four papers were presented: 1.
Interoperability of self organising systems of multiple participants, 2. A framework for a research
agenda of data collection architecture of Big Data, 3. Opportunity analysis for collaborating SME
networks and 4. Interoperability challenges for Context Aware Logistic Services –The case of
Synchromodal Logistics.
Big Data processing and analytics present major challenges to Enterprise Interoperability.
These data usually come from different stakeholders with unknown quality and utility.
Exchanging, analysing interpreting, and combining such data for enterprise-driven purposes
requires advanced techniques and methods. Due to, for example, unclear data governance,
weakness in automatic data acquisition and data formatting, the interoperation for data exchange
is suboptimal and should be improved to meet application and business requirements. Clearly,
these challenges and issues are offering opportunities for further research, as was demonstrated
by one of the papers with the presentation of a research agenda
Workshop 2, organised by the European OSMOSE project focused on the challenges of
Enterprise Interoperability for the Sensing Enterprise (SE), with contributions from other
European IoT Projects related to the SE concept. Five projects have been presented 1. OSMOSE:
the osmosis paradigm linking the three worlds, the Real World, Digital World and Virtual World
which determine the Liquid-Sensing Enterprise. 2. C2-SENSE: Interoperability Profiles for
Command/Control Systems and Sensor Systems in Emergency Management, 3. FITMAN,
addressing Future Enterprise enablers for the Sensing Enterprise: A FIWARE Approach &
Industrial Trialling, 4. CELTIC-PLUS: Usable Access Control enabled by Sensing Enterprise
Architectures and Future Enterprise, 5. DBI: The Future Enterprise Roadmap: What lies ahead
for the Sensing Enterprise?.
Besides the value of knowledge dissemination of this research, aspects of evaluation, testing
and implementation as well as deployment of the respective architectures in use cases were
discussed. The presented projects might investigate research challenges and case studies along
the Digital Business Innovation aspects and consider integration of the project results for a
common approach.
Workshop 3 focused on developing standards for Enterprise Interoperability (EI) to bridge the
gap between research and standardisation. The workshop aimed to share knowledge about new
standardisation developments for Enterprise Interoperability emerging from ongoing research.
Four papers were presented: 1. Requirements for standardisation in an Enterprise Operating
System (EOS), 2. FLEXINET: Standardised semantic models to support the configuration of
global production networks, 3. Issues and needs in supporting software interoperability in
standardised interfaces and 4. Standardisation connecting the concepts of Industry 4.0 and of
Service Lifecycle Management.
A general concern for EOS and other promising candidates for potential standards is how to best
realize a standard, reaching consensus against proprietary solutions. Examples of upcoming
research questions include the capability of a reference ontology to represent several sectors, as
well as key concepts, rules and relationships within the reference ontology. The paper addressing
the adoption of standards based software interfaces, showed the importance to provide clear
examples of adoptions and to evaluate, disseminate and promote the business benefit. Standards
should have minimal complexity to make them implementable. Standardisation to connect high
level concepts for information exchange needs clear methods of implementation. It can be
concluded that standards for Enterprise Interoperability are indeed strongly needed, however
development, implementation and adoption are suffering from various obstacles.
International Program Committee
David Chen, University of Bordeaux
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente
Piero de Sabbata. ENEA X-LAB
Bob Young, Loughborough University
Martin Zelm, INTEROP-VLab
Wout Hofman, TNO
Joost Ramaekers, Capgemini
Boris Shishkov, IICREST
Ivan Ivanov, Université du Sud Toulon
Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research
Stefano Nativi, University of Florence
Erwin Folmer, University of Twente
Abdullah Gani, University of Malaya
Maria Iacob, University of Twente
Kurt Kosanke, Germany
Tom van Maanen, Capgemini