Modeling & Simulation Driven framework for Interoperability of Enterprise System M&SDIES


More than ever, companies play in a same field with competitors and partners who frequently refine and adapt their offerings to customers. To stay current, manufacturing companies need to use the latest findings from the ICT sector, especially when collaborating with external partners in a supply chain and exchanging products and data. However, in this context, enterprise information systems (EIS) reach a limit in collaborative environments because business management methods diverge and EIS are mainly inflexible resource packages that are not built with interoperability in mind. Therefore, we need to make EIS interoperable in order to achieve the necessary competitive and performance gains. This keynote can be summarized as follows : (1) it will attempt to link existing work and examine the barriers that currently prevent further improvements due to current methodological and technological limitations, and (2) it will propose a conceptual framework and five challenges that model-based approaches must overcome to achieve interoperability among EISs in the short and long term. It thus led to the design of the Model Driven Interoperability System Engineering (MDISE) framework, which capitalizes on enterprise interoperability research. (3) The study will show how the use of simulation, distributed simulation, and co-simulation can support model-based approaches in the path from concepts to technical deployment. In detail, it will focus on how the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard could be an interesting solution to define the HLA execution scenario within a model-driven architecture approach. Specifically, how to support the modeling phase of the HLA execution process to explicitly design the desired steps of orchestration between distributed HLA federates through the interpretation of a business process diagram.