Support for Forming Temporal Business Alliances as Networked Enterprises Marián Mach 1, Peter Bednár 1, Karol Furdík 2 1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, Košice, Slovakia {marian.mach, 2 InterSoft, a.s., Floriánska 19, Košice, Slovakia CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

Contents  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

Motivation  Networked enterprises:  combining BP modelling, semantic technologies, security infrastructure  to support a creation and maintenance of short-term business alliances  Related projects:  STASIS (FP , eEconomy services, semantic interoperability;  TrustCom (FP , framework for Virtual Organisations;  OPUCE (FP , service environment, infrastructure for collaborative and dynamic loosely coupled services;  SUPER (FP , modular architecture for semantic BPM.  other projects and research groups focused on SWS, Security, Identity Management and Privacy, Process-Oriented Knowledge Management, etc. CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

Project SPIKE - Basic facts  SPIKE: Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises  Web:  FP7 ICT EU project, FP  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. CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

SPIKE vision CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

Architecture design CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009  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) CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009 SPIKE System Core: back end, system data processing SPIKE Service Bus: internal / external communication

Architecture - system components (2) CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009 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 managers CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009  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

Information view - data elements CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

Conceptual perspective CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009  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 used CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009  Open Source, Java-based  Ontologies and semantic annotation:  WSMO framework, WSMO Studio (  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 applications CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009  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

Conclusions  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) CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009

Questions? More info: CECIIS Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems Varaždin, Croatia, September , 2009