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- Towards Vendor-Agnostic IT-System of IT-Systems with the CEDE PlatformPublication . F. G. Osório, A. LuísThe increasing capabilities and quality of information technology has thrown integration endeavour to a top priority (total integration trend). However, the lack of time to mature consensus and the market dynamics, has led to technological dependencies (vendor lock-in). Over the past few years, a variety of new concepts, paradigms, methodologies and technologies have contributed to unique information technology (IT) solutions. One main research question is how to establish an open development landscape for the emergent complex integrated IT system of systems under vendor agnostic models (openness). The Collaborative Enterprise Development Environment (CEDE) is a research effort towards a unified development culture (based on conformity certifications). The strategy is complementary to existing standardizations processes and is based on promoting an open (unified) collaborative development environment.
- Open services ecosystem supporting collaborativePublication . F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Afsarmanesh, Hamideh; Luis M. Camarinha-MatosThe growing complexity of the information and communication technologies when coping with innovative business services based on collaborative contributions from multiple stakeholders requires novel and multidisciplinary approaches. Service orientation is a strategic approach to deal with such complexity, and various stakeholders’ information systems. Services or more precisely the autonomous computational agents implementing the services, provide an architectural pattern able to cope with the needs of integrated and distributed collaborative solutions. This paper proposes a service-oriented framework, aiming to support a virtual organizations breeding environment which is the basis to establish short or long term goal-oriented virtual organizations. The notion of integrated business services, where customers receive some value developed through the contribution from a network of companies is a key element.
- On reliable collaborative mobility servicesPublication . F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Camarinha-Matos, Luis; Afsarmanesh, Hamideh; Belloum, AdamCurrent approaches for development of collaborative business process automation, when requiring the participation of multiple stakeholders, lack proper formalization in terms of the required informatics systems landscape. Existing solutions depend on specific technology strategies and do not offer a suitable model for the fast-growing collaborative services. In this paper, we present the concept of an open informatics system of systems (ISoS), as a holistic framework that can be applied to a European wide payment system for collaborative multimodal mobility services. To illustrate how the ISoS framework could be applied in practice, we consider the payment service to support public transports, motorway and bridges tolling, payment in parking lots, bicycle renting and payment in a fueling station, all under a single contract. While each participating organization (any infrastructure operator) is free to adopt any applicable technology, the proposed ECoNet collaboration infrastructure is aimed to support a multi-supplier (open) informatics system technology landscape. Based on results from previous research, the paper introduces a strategy to allow effective and reliable EU wide collaborative mobility services.
- Distributed process execution in collaborative networksPublication . F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Luis M. Camarinha-MatosProcesses are a central entity in enterprise collaboration. Collaborative processes need to be executed and coordinated in a distributed Computational platform where computers are connected through heterogeneous networks and systems. Life cycle management of such collaborative processes requires a framework able to handle their diversity based on different computational and communication requirements. This paper proposes a rational for such framework, points out key requirements and proposes it strategy for a supporting technological infrastructure. Beyond the portability of collaborative process definitions among different technological bindings, a framework to handle different life cycle phases of those definitions is presented and discussed. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Interoperability among its systems with Its-Ibus frameworkPublication . F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Barata, Manuel; Gonçalves, Carlos; Araújo, P.; Abrantes, Arnaldo; Jorge, Pedro; Gomes, J. Sales; Jacquet, G.; Amador, A.This paper presents and discusses the extended Via-Verde business model from the point of view of the underlying requirements for the virtual business processes. The extension of Via-Verde concept to other services beyond the motorway toll collection has increased the number of independent companies involved. The complex networked scenario resulted on a proposal of an intelligent transport system — interoperability bus (ITS-IBus) (Gomes et. al. 2003) (Osorio, et. al. 2003-a) aiming to promote a generalized interoperability among heterogeneous (multi-vendor) technological subsystems. The ITS-IBus initiative has been developing since then, a reference implementation of a peer-to-peer service based framework with pluggable feature and a set of common agreed interfaces for coupling different technological systems. An important objective is to increase the quality of the offered services by establishing a flexible execution and coordination framework for the collaborative distributed business processes.
- An adaptive IoT management infrastructure for eco transport networksPublication . Calado, João Manuel Ferreira; F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Prata, RicardoThe complexity associated with fast growing of B2B and the lack of a (complete) suite of open standards makes difficulty to maintain the underlying collaborative processes. Aligned to this challenge, this paper aims to be a contribution to an open architecture of logistics and transport processes management system. A model of an open integrated system is being defined as an open computational responsibility from the embedded systems (on-board) as well as a reference implementation (prototype) of a host system to validate the proposed open interfaces. Embedded subsystem can, natively, be prepared to cooperate with other on-board units and with IT-systems in an infrastructure commonly referred to as a center information system or back-office. In interaction with a central system the proposal is to adopt an open framework for cooperation where the embedded unit or the unit placed somewhere (land/sea) interacts in response to a set of implemented capabilities.
- RFID together with multi-agent systems to control global value chainsPublication . Dias, J. C. Q.; Calado, João Manuel Ferreira; F. G. Osório, A. Luís; Morgado, LuísNowadays, the cooperative intelligent transport systems are part of a largest system. Transportations are modal operations integrated in logistics and, logistics is the main process of the supply chain management. The supply chain strategic management as a simultaneous local and global value chain is a collaborative/cooperative organization of stakeholders, many times in co-opetition, to perform a service to the customers respecting the time, place, price and quality levels. The transportation, like other logistics operations must add value, which is achieved in this case through compression lead times and order fulfillments. The complex supplier's network and the distribution channels must be efficient and the integral visibility (monitoring and tracing) of supply chain is a significant source of competitive advantage. Nowadays, the competition is not discussed between companies but among supply chains. This paper aims to evidence the current and emerging manufacturing and logistics system challenges as a new field of opportunities for the automation and control systems research community. Furthermore, the paper forecasts the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies integrated into an information and communication technologies (ICT) framework based on distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) supported by a multi-agent system (MAS), as the most value advantage of supply chain management (SCM) in a cooperative intelligent logistics systems. Logistical platforms (production or distribution) as nodes of added value of supplying and distribution networks are proposed as critical points of the visibility of the inventory, where these technological needs are more evident.