Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking, Proceedings of the 6th EI2N'2011 workshop, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 Workshops, Confederated International Workshops and Posters,, Hersonissou, Crete, Greece
Résumé
After the successful Fifth edition in 2010, the sixth edition of the Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking workshop (EI2N'2011) has been organised as part of the OTM'2011 Federated Conferences and is supported by the IFAC Technical Committee 5.3 "Enterprise Integration and Networking", the IFIP TC 8 WG 8.1 "Design and Evaluation of Information Systems", the SIG INTEROP Grande-Région on "Enterprise Systems Interoperability" and the French CNRS National Research Group GDR MACS. This year, the workshop is being held with the First International NSF Workshop on Information Centric Engineering (ICE) and Cybertechnologies. Collaboration is necessary for enterprises to prosper in the current extreme dynamic and heterogeneous business environment. Enterprise integration, interoperability and networking are the major disciplines that have studied how to do companies to collaborate and communicate in the most effective way. These disciplines are well-established and are supported by international conferences, initiatives, groups, task forces and governmental projects all over the world where different domains of knowledge have been considered from different points of views and a variety of objectives (e.g., technological or managerial). Enterprise Integration involves breaking down organizational barriers to improve synergy within the enterprise so that business goals are achieved in a more productive and efficient way. The past decade of enterprise integration research and industrial implementation has seen the emergence of important new areas, such as research into interoperability and networking, which involve breaking down organizational barriers to improve synergy within the enterprise and among enterprises. The ambition to achieve dynamic, efficient and effective cooperation of enterprises within networks of companies, or in an entire industry sector, requires the improvement of existing, or the development of new, theories and technologies. Enterprise Modelling, Architecture, and semantic techniques are the pillars supporting the achievement of Enterprise Integration and Interoperability. Internet of Things and Cloud Computing now present new opportunities to realize inter enterprise and intra enterprise integration. For these reasons, the workshop's objective is to foster discussions among representatives of these neighbouring disciplines and to discover new research paths within the enterprise integration community. After peer reviews, 9 papers have been accepted out of 20 submissions to this workshop. Paper presentation by leading experts on ICE related topics as well group discussions which will identify a roadmap for the future were an important and unique aspect of this year's joint EI2N and NSF ICE workshop. Niky Riga, a Network Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies and GENI (NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations) Project Office has been invited as EI2N+NSF ICE plenary keynote on "GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations". She introduced GENI through a couple of example use-cases; she reviewed as well the growing suite of infrastructure and evolving control frameworks. She also presented previous and current experiments running in GENI. In addition to the presentations of the accepted papers, groups have been organised into what E2IN traditionally calls "workshop cafés", to discuss and debate the presented topics. This year discussions focused around "Information centric engineering and interoperability issues" as it applies to emerging engineering and other domains. The outcomes of these respective discussions are reported during a plenary session jointly organized with the CoopIS'2011 and the OTM Industry Case Studies Program, in order to share the vision for future research with other conference attendees. The papers published in this volume of proceedings present samples of current research in the enterprise modelling, systems interoperability, services management, cloud integration and, more globally, systems engineering and enterprise architecture domains. Some new architecting principles that has gained currency in the recent past include semantic techniques and frameworks, service oriented architectures, virtual engineering and cloud computing with their principles, reference models and technology; such frameworks and principles hold the potential to be important contributors to the future of interoperable, networked and collaborative enterprises.