Vol. 12/2	date 2005-07-30	ISSN 1618-1638
CIMOSA - News
Editor: Martin Zelm, Gehenbuehlstr. 18A, D-70499 Stuttgart, martin.zelm@cimosa.de
The CIMOSA - News is published by the CIMOSA Association. The CIMOSA News reports on CIMOSA applications, evolution of its technical specification, advancements in standardisation and related items. Contributions from other parties are welcome. The CIMOSA - News will be printed periodically and is also available in the Internet at http://www.cimosa.de.

INTEROP (IST-2003-508011)
Major INTEROP activities included 1) a plenary workshop in Valencia, Spain, 2005-05-23/25 starting the second project phase. Besides the efforts in dissemination, with workpackage management and involvement in standardisation, the CIMOSA Association participates in efforts on glossaries and model morphisms. 2) an Enterprise Interoperability Information Day has been held during the OMG Technical Meeting in Athens, Greece 2005-04-13 to present the different views on the topics held by the INTEROP project, the OMG-BEIDTF (Business Enterprise Integration Design Task Force) and the OMG-ManTIS (Manufacturing Technologies and Industrial Systems Design Task Force). The session emphasized the need for continuation of harmonisation of global standards and to enhance collaboration between the responsible organisations.
Reports from Events
“Competition Factor Production Technology – Aachen Perspectives” was the theme of the AWK (Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium) organised by the Machine Tool Laboratory WZL, 2005-06-02/03. The conference attracted over 1.100 participants mainly from German industry and academic institutions. 14 papers addressed production aspects of global environments, economics, high tech and the role of applied science in innovation. Proceedings (in German) published by Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, ISBN 3 8322-3966-X.
ICE 2005 the 11th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising was held in Munich 2005-06-20/22. Participation: 250 people. The theme “Integrated Engineering of Products, Services and Organisations” was treated in 8 sections covering CE methods and tools, performance, knowledge, innovation, and product data & life cycle management, collaborative systems, virtual enterprises and product development. Proceedings published by Nottingham University Business School, http://www,nottingham.ac.uk, 
ISBN 0 85358 128 2 / 978 0 85358 221 2
16th IFAC World Congress was held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2005-07-4/8 with 2800 participants. TC 5.3 Enterprise Integration and Networking had organised four invited sessions (17 papers) addressing interoperability, focussing on 1) Research for networked enterprise applications and software, 2) Collaborative networked organisations, 3) Integration of business and manufacturing control systems including standards and 4) Industrial interoperability applications.	 (http://ifacplaza.certicon.cz/index.php)
EE&I Standardisation
IEC/SC 65A-ISO/TC 184/SC5/JWG15, VDE Frankfurt, 2005-04-18/21. Attendance: 12 people from France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, UK and USA. Major items of discussion have been 1) terminology for JWG15 and linking SC4 terms and concepts with JWG15 concepts, 2) examples for ISO 62264-3 of decision-making, and decision hierarchies in production, 3) input to SP95 on Part 4 standard. Further, promotional material has been prepared for: 1) general promotion of the 62264 standard 2) explanation / justification of JWG15 vis-à-vis other standard committees.
ISO TC 184 SC5 Industrial Automation Systems and Integration/Architecture, Communications and Integration Frameworks held its plenary meeting at VDMA in Frankfurt, 2005-04-25/26. 22 people from China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and USA attended the meeting. One agenda item relevant to our work in INTEROP was the report of the study group on terminology, presented by K. Kosanke. This work will continue and cooperation with the CEN NWIP on terminology is foreseen. 
ISO TC 184 SC5/WG1 Modelling and Architectures meeting at VDMA, Frankfurt, 2005-04-21/23 with an attendance of 14 people from China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, UK and USA. Subjects: work plan for next 12 months, CEN ISO 19439 and 19440 review, ISO 15704 systematic review, status of interoperability efforts, NWIP Process Modelling. Next meetings will be held in conjunction with the TC184 Plenary in Beijing, China, October 26/28, 2005 and in conjunction with the SC5 Plenary in Monterrey, Mexico, May 22/24, 2006. 
CEN TC 310 WG 1 Modelling and Architectures meeting at VDMA, Frankfurt, 2005-06-28/29, had an attendance of 5 people from France (via Phone), Germany and UK. Subject: review the standard CEN/ISO 19440 and NWIP on terminology. Issues on 19440 have been resolved and the final documents will be prepared for ballot submission. Ballot comments are planed to be resolved at the next meeting to be held at AFNOR, Paris, 2005-12-5/7.
Publications 
Papers published and presented 
K. Kosanke, “Standardisation in Enterprise Inter- and Intraorganisational Integration” J. of IT Standards & Standardisation Research vol. 3/2, 2005.
K. Mertins, T. Knothe, M. Zelm, “Towards User-oriented Enterprise Modelling for Interoperability”, in Advanced Topics in Database Research, Vol 4, Ed. Keng Siau, Idea Group Publishing, ISBN 159140-472-X (2005)
K. Kosanke, M. Zelm, “Enterprise and Business Process Modelling - Towards Interoperability and Integration”, presentation at the Symposium on Systems integration and simulation with standardised tools, VDMA, Frankfurt, Germany, 2005-04-26.
K. Kosanke, “Interoperability, the INTEROP Project and Standardisation”, poster presentation at ICE 2005, Munich, Germany, 2005-06-20/22, published in ICE proceeding (see above)
M. Zelm, “Harmonisation of Enterprise Integration Standards – an urgent need’ paper presented at the IFAC’05 World Congress Praha, Czech Republic, 2005-07-04/08, proceedings to be published.
Upcoming Events
•	ENEI’2005, International Workshop on Enterprise and Networked Enterprises Interoperability, Nancy, France, 2005-09-05, part of BPM'2005 conference, http://bpm2005.loria.fr/
•	CDVE2005, Second International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2005-09-18/21, http://www.cdve.org
•	SEB05: Electronic e-Business Standards Workshop Bonn , Germany, 2005-09-19/22, http://estandards.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
•	2nd INTEROP Workshop on aligning IT-investment with business, and IT aspects of inter-enterprise collaboration, part of EDOC’2005, Ninth International IEEE Conference, Enschede, NL, 2005-09-19/23, http://www.edocconference.org
•	BIR2005: 4th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, University of Skövde, Sweden, 2005-10-3/4, http://www.his.se/iki/bir2005
•	eChallenges, EU Conference and Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005-10-19/21, http://www.echallenges.org/2005
•	ESM2005, European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2005-10-24/26, www.eurosis.org
•	KnowTech 2005 Knowledge Management - Motivation, Organisation, Integration, Part of SYSTEMS 2005, Munich, Germany, 2005-10-24/25, http://www.knowtech.net 
•	I3E'2005, IFIP International Conference on eBusiness, eCommerce and eGovernment, 2005-10-26/28, Poznan Poland, http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/i3e
•	2nd INTEROP dissemination workshop Ayia Napa, Cyprus http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/interop/2005/papers part of On the Move Federated conferences OTM’05 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf
•	CER2005: Communicating European Research 2005 International Conference Brussels, Belgium, 2005-11-14/15, http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/cer2005/index_en.html
•	Workshop, ‘Towards an Impact Assessment of Standards’ CEN Management Centre, Brussels, 2005-11-25, http://www.no-rest.org/Documents/WS-Brussels_Agenda.doc 
•	Workshop "Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems (IHIS05)" part of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, Germany, 2005-11-04, http://ihis.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de 
•	12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM’2006, St. Etienne, France, 2006-05-17/19, http://www.emse.fr/incom06
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