Knowledge-based system for collaborative process specification

Keith Popplewell

Description

Niveau: Supérieur, Doctorat, Bac+8

• dissertation

THÈSE En vue de l'obtention du DOCTORAT DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE Délivré par l'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse Discipline ou spécialité : Systèmes Industriels JURY Chihab HANACHI Professeur Université Toulouse 1 Examinateur Keith POPPLEWELL Professeur Coventry University Rapporteur Michele MISSIKOFF Professeur Lab for Enterprise Knowledge & Systems Rapporteur Khalid BENALI HDR Universite Nancy 2 Rapporteur Hervé PINGAUD Professeur Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux Directeur de thèse Jean-Pierre LORRE Directeur R&D EBM WebSourcing Examinateur Frédérick BENABEN Maître-Assistant Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux Examinateur Ecole doctorale : Ecole Doctorale Systèmes Unité de recherche : Centre de Génie Industriel, Université Toulouse, Mines Albi Directeur(s) de Thèse : Pr. Hervé PINGAUD Présentée et soutenue par Vatcharaphun RAJSIRI Le 3 mars 2009 Titre : Knowledge-based system for collaborative process specification

• bpmn collaborative


• aiai enterprise


• collaborative process


• knowledge-based system


• inter-enterprise


• albi-carmaux examinateur


• ontology


• stp bpmn


• enterprise knowledge

Sujets

• Dissertation
• Popplewell
• Blondelle
• Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse
• Fournier

Informations

• Publié par: profil-feym-2012
• Publié le: 01 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 22
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

THÈSE


En vue de l'obtention du

DOCTORAT DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE

Délivré par l’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Discipline ou spécialité : Systèmes Industriels


Présentée et soutenue par Vatcharaphun RAJSIRI
Le 3 mars 2009

Titre : Knowledge-based system for collaborative process specification

JURY
Chihab HANACHI Professeur Université Toulouse 1 Examinateur
Keith POPPLEWELL Professeur Coventry University Rapporteur
Michele MISSIKOFF Professeur Lab for Enterprise Knowledge & Systems
Khalid BENALI HDR Universite Nancy 2 Rapporteur
Hervé PINGAUD Professeur Ecole des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux Directeur de thèse
Jean-Pierre LORRE Directeur R&D EBM WebSourcing Examinateur
Frédérick BENABEN Maître-Assistant Ecole des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux Examinateur

Ecole doctorale : Ecole Doctorale Systèmes
Unité de recherche : Centre de Génie Industriel, Université Toulouse, Mines Albi
Directeur(s) de Thèse : Pr. Hervé PINGAUD



Acknowledgement


Foremost, I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Hervé Pingaud and M. Fréderick
Bénaben, who shared with me a lot of their expertise and research insight. Their thoughtful
advice often served to give me a sense of direction during my PhD. I am deeply grateful for
their detailed and constructive comments, and for their important supports throughout this
work.
I also like to express my gratitude to M. Jean-Pierre Lorré, R&D Director of EBM
WebSourcing, who brought me into the world of technology and with whom I learnt about
how to attack theory, methodology and experimental activities in a balanced way.
I wish to thank Professor Keith Popplewell, Professor Michele Missikoff and M. Khalid
Benali for accepting to review and examine my PhD thesis.
I warmly thank also to Professor Chihab Hanachi for his interest in my work and accepting to
chair my thesis defence.
During this work I have collaborated with many colleagues for whom I have great regard, and
I wish to extend my warmest thanks to all those who have helped me with my work in both
EBM WebSourcing and Centre de Génie Industriel of Ecole des Mines d’Albi.
I owe my most sincere gratitude to M. Bertrand Escudié and M. Gaël Blondelle who gave me
the opportunity to work with them at EBM WebSourcing. Special thanks to my colleagues,
Seb, Christophe, Olivier, Anne-Marie, for their warm welcome, their kindness and their
friendship.
My sincere thanks are due to the members of Centre de Génie Industriel of Ecole des Mines
d’Albi, particularly Professor Lionel Dupont and Miss Isabelle Fournier, for their warm
welcome and their assistance during these three years.
Many thanks to my friends: Jelly, Aey, Jane, Fone and Lenx for long chatting and enjoying
our life in France together…I just realized that we’ve known each other for almost ten years!,
Jihed and Seb for your kindness and pleasant working time we had during the last three
years…

Finally, I wish to express my love and gratitude to all my beloved family: my parents, my
sister Noon and my dearest Thacha for their loving support and never advising me to quit this
work. Without their encouragement, understanding and support it would have been
impossible for me to finish this work.


Table of contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1

CHAPTER 1. SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES.......................................................................... 7
1. PROBLEM OF INTER-ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION..................................................... 7
2. HYPOTHESES AND OBJECTIVES OF THE DISSERTATION................................................ 8
2.1. Principal hypotheses .............................................................................................. 8
2.2. Principal objectives and scope of the dissertation............................................... 11
2.2.1. Positioning the dissertation on the MDE approach.......................................... 11
2.2.2. Interoperability frameworks............................................................................. 14
2.2.3. Positioning the dissertation on the interoperability framework ....................... 19
3. ELABORATION OF A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING COLLABORATIVE
PROCESSES ........................................................................................................................... 20
4. CONCLUSION OF THE CHAPTER................................................................................... 21

CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE STUDY ................................................................................ 23
1. APPROACH FOR INTER-ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION .............................................. 23
1.1. Inter-enterprise collaboration.............................................................................. 23
1.1.1. Definitions........................................................................................................ 23
1.1.2. Different types and levels of collaboration ...................................................... 24
1.2. Studies of collaboration characterization............................................................ 26
1.2.1. Network configuration factors ......................................................................... 27
1.2.2. Inter-enterprise relationships............................................................................ 28
1.2.3. Topologies of network ..................................................................................... 29
1.2.4. Dependencies and coordination mechanism .................................................... 31
1.2.5. Conclusion........................................................................................................ 32
1.3. Enterprise knowledge........................................................................................... 33
1.3.1. Types of enterprise knowledge ........................................................................ 34
1.3.2. Knowledge for collaboration 34
1.4. Conclusion............................................................................................................ 36
2. APPROACH FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESS MODELLING........................................... 37
2.1. SOA....................................................................................................................... 37
2.2. Collaborative process .......................................................................................... 38
2.2.1. Definitions and characteristics of collaborative process .................................. 38
2.2.2. Meta-model of collaborative process [Touzi, 2007] ........................................ 39
2.2.3. BPMN as a collaborative process modelling language.................................... 41
2.3. Modelling approaches 43
2.3.1. Strategic alignment........................................................................................... 43
2.3.2. MIT Process Handbook.................................................................................... 44
2.3.3. Summary of the modelling approaches............................................................ 47
2.4. Collaborative process in a "SOA by mediation" approach.................................. 48
3. CONCLUSION OF THE CHAPTER................................................................................... 48
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CHAPTER 3. KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
DEFINITION.......................................................................................................................... 51
1. PRESENTATION OF THE APPROACH............................................................................. 51
2. CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING ONTOLOGY................................. 54
2.1. Definitions of ontology......................................................................................... 55
2.2. Uses of ontologies ................................................................................................ 56
2.3. Different categories of ontologies........................................................................ 57
2.4. Ontology languages.............................................................................................. 60
2.4.1. RDF and RDF Schema..................................................................................... 60
2.4.2. OWL................................................................................................................. 62
2.4.3. Conclusion........................................................................................................ 63
2.5. Related ontologies 64
2.5.1. AIAI Enterprise Ontology.........................................................