Objectives: Improve international consensus on issues in Enterprise Modelling and
Enterprise Integration Technologies
Rationale:
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insufficient understanding of the technology by the end-user community,
many conflicting solutions and terminology,
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application of EI technology hampered by lacking business justification,
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intensifying needs for EI technology through increasing emphasis on agile operation in
globally extended or virtual enterprises.
Method: The EI-IC initiative will identify barriers, propose solutions, 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.
Dates:
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identify major issues - early 1997
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organise workshops with international experts (duration min. 3 days) and try to resolve or at
least reduce these issues (on the basis of the GERAM framework as proposed by the IFAC/IFIP
Task Force) - March - June 1997
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results from the workshops will be presented in the concluding conference (ICEIMT'97) -
October 28-30, 1997
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Conference proceedings, publications of additional papers and specific workshops for
information dissemination - early 1998
Proposed Workshop Themes:
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EI Applications, Principles and Fundamentals:
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EI Semantic Issues
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Enterprise Organisation and Human Issues
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Enterprise Metrics and Strategic Standardisation Policies
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Vendor Support for EI Users
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Issue Consolidation
Participation:
limited to 15 participants per workshop (by invitation only).
Identification of interest appreciated. Please submit a list of your references in
the field of enterprise integration and modelling including recent results.
Contacts:
Europe:
- CIMOSA Association, c/o K. Kosanke,
Stockholmer Str. 7, D-71034 Boeblingen, Germany,
Tel: +49 7031 27 76 65, fax +49 7031 27 66 98,
e-mail: kosanke@IPA.FHG.de
USA:
- NIST, c/o J. Nell,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-001 USA
Tel: +1 301 975 57 48, fax: +1 301 258 97 49,
e-mail: nell@nist.gov.
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