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, Slovakiakarol.furdik@intersoft.sk

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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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