Semantic issues in model-driven management of information system interoperability

Abstract

The MISE Project (Mediation Information System Engineering) aims at providing collaborating organizations with a Mediation Information System (MIS) in charge of supporting interoperability of a collaborative network. MISE proposes an overall MIS design method according to a model--driven approach, based on model transformations. This MIS is in charge of managing (i) information, (ii) functions and (iii) processes among the information systems (IS) of partner organizations involved in the network. Semantic issues are accompanying this triple objective: How to deal with information reconciliation? How to ensure the matching between business functions and technical services? How to identify workflows among business processes? This article aims first, at presenting the MISE approach, second at defining the semantic gaps along the MISE approach and third at describing some past, current and future research works that deal with these issues. Finally and as a conclusion, the very "design-oriented" previous considerations are confronted with "run--time" requirements.

A non-linear business process management maturity framework to apprehend future challenges

“…In line with this representation, the IT field is depicted as a transversal field across the organization and is built using the same structure, so as to facilitate diffusion of Information through the Business Layer. Data, Applications and Workflows respectively are the IT equivalents of Information, Functions and Processes (Bénaben, Boissel-Dallier, Pingaud, & Lorre, 2013). These three abstraction levels of the IT field can be interwoven following the same logic: Data is the foundation of Applications, and Applications are the foundation of Workflows.…”

Management of Collaborative Behavior through a Service-Oriented Mediation System: The Case of Crisis Management

“…However, the use of complete description files for web services (such as WSDL files) provide the IO-WA tool with information regarding the precise way to contact any service. Besides, as presented in [19], the use of more complete description file (such as SA-WSDL files) allows managing more complete syntactic/semantic reconciliation during the Computation step of technic level.…”

From Declarative Knowledge to Process-based Crisis Resolution: application to Flood Management

“…The paper focuses on the deduction step, which is a fundamental step in the crisis resolution cycle. Deduction of CRPs has already been addressed in literature (e.g., [5,6]), but the main drawback of existing contributions is that they only support deduction of services organized in sequence or in parallel. They are unable to deduce choices and thus they are unable to model alternative plans that crisis cells have to consider.…”