Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 1 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Improving OAGIS with Ontologies David Connelly CEO, Open Applications Group, Inc.

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 2 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Introduction I am not an expert in Ontology I build standards We can always improve standards So my context is how to use Ontology technology to do this We have tried some research in past in partnership with NIST I will discuss some plans moving forward

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 3 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group OAGi is a not-for-profit, independent, open standards development organization. It was formed to promote interoperability among business software applications and to create or endorse one or more standards for easier business software interoperability. The primary technical standard produced by OAGi is OAGIS, the OAG Integration Standard. Open Applications Group Who we are

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 4 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group OAGIS is Process Definitions and Payloads Scenario is process definition Business Object Documents (BODs) are messages within the Collaboration Freely downloadable at:

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 5 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Definition 1 of Ontology A common vocabulary for describing the concepts that exist in an area of knowledge and the relationships that exist between them. An ontology allows for a more detailed specification of the relationships in a domain than is the case with a thesaurus or taxonomy.... plc.fis.utoronto.ca/tgdemo/Glossary.as p plc.fis.utoronto.ca/tgdemo/Glossary.as p

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 6 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Definition 2 of Ontology (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant... the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 7 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Thoughts Goal of OAGIS Focus on end-user Focus on Solution Provider Save Money Improve agility Definition of Ontology How can this improve OAGIS

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 8 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Open Applications Group Goal E2E = B2B + A2A + A2E TM Everywhere to Everywhere Integration

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Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 10 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Problem Description Different Tags & Meanings DifferentPositions Different Information Content Different information elements

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 11 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Industry Collaborations UN/CEFACT – United Nations ISO- International Standards Organization MoU MG – Memorandum of Understanding Management Group IEC TC57 WG14 – Electric Utility Standards KIEC – Korean e-Commerce Consortium NIST – National Institute of Standards & Technology AIAG – Auto Supply Chain North America Odette – Auto in Europe ITA – Information Technology in Germany STAR – Auto Retail North America AAIA – Auto Aftermarket North America RV Industry – North America AIA – Aerospace North America AECMA – Aerospace Europe OSCRE – Facilities Management VISION Industry HR-XML – HR Content, world-wide SP95 – Enterprise Controls ARTS (Retail) STEP – Engineering world-wide IFX – Interactive Financial Exchange SWIFT TWIST Comptia/EIDX – Electronics and Computer Industry WS-I OASIS Tax-XML UBL

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 12 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group OAGIS Convergence Initiatives UN/CEFACT MoU MG Financial Harmonization AIAG, STAR, Odette, JAMA/JAPIA ISA SP95 HR-XML ACORD CIDX ARTs STEP Others possible

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 13 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Problem Description OAGIS –BOM –Item Master –ECO STEP –AP214 –OMG PLM Services –OAGIS PLCS (later for Manufacturing)

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 14 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group NIST B2B Testbed Activity Update Serm Kulvatunyou Nenad Ivezic Jungyub Woo

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Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 16 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Research Findings Three levels of similarity measures identified –Lexical similarity measure – Words and terms similarity based on domain independent or specific knowledge –Structural similarity measure – Words and terms similarity based on structural information (what a term contains and how) –Logical similarity measure – Words and terms similarity based on associated formal models Approach to measure the quality of the similarity measure preliminary defined

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Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 18 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Results Still in the Lab Enterprise Interoperability Centre European Test Bed is next step Same people involved We still have the problem in the real world

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 19 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Activities with OAGIS Looking at a Next –Gen Effort Will Include UN/CEFACT Technologies Improve Supply Chain Interoperability Improve Cross-Supply Chain Interoperability

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 20 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group UN/CEFACT Technologies Naming and Design Rules CCTS Data Types Unified Context Methodology (UCM)

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 21 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Unified Context Methodology

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 22 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Unified Context Methodology

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 23 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Final Thoughts We have been active for years Still Active Still Hopeful Open to new ideas

Copyright © Open Applications Group, Inc. All rights reserved 24 © Copyright 2009 Open Applications Group Questions?