Jan BM Goossenaerts

• PhD Mathematics, MSc Informatics, Certificate Philosophy
• Founder at Wikiworx Academy

The book has a focus on digital enablers for the human side of the enterprise "big three subjects": Leadership (Humanity), Decision Making and Communication. Consider as task the 2030 Agenda, as team the living members of mankind and as individual each one of us. At first sight, decision making appears to be solely relevant to that first circle "...

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily. This e-book introduces systematically defined hashtags for six theme dimensions: the sustainable development goals and targets, economic activities, functions of government, products and services, th...

For an ICT initiative of significant size, that seizes all potential benefits of an information exchange architecture (as part of a Societal Architecture) it is recommended that a business requirements document be created as part of the portfolio communications plan. This chapter illustrates the potential of Societal Architecture in the internation...

Modelio 5.1 is an open source modeling tool that supports the integration between BPMN process models and UML information models in a specification that is at the level of the “Computation Independent Model” (see chapter 3.6 - Models and Model Layers). The utility of such an integration has been described in Goossenaerts (2002) using UML and Hierar...

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily. This e-book introduces systematically defined hashtags for five topic dimensions: the sustainable development goals and targets, economic activities, functions of government, products and services, a...

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily. This handbook introduces systematically defined hashtags for five topic dimensions: the sustainable development goals and targets, economic activities, functions of government, products and services,...

#etiquetado significa que uno usa hashtags estandarizados para relacionar información en línea con temas específicos para estructurarla y recuperarla fácilmente. Este manual presenta hashtags definidos sistemáticamente para cinco dimensiones temáticas: los objetivos y metas de desarrollo sostenible, las actividades económicas, las funciones del go...

Ang ibig sabihin ng #tagcoding ay gumagamit ang isang tao ng mga pamantayan na hashtag para iugnay ang online na impormasyon sa mga partikular na paksa upang mabuo ito at madaling makuha. Ipinakikilala ng manwal na ito ang mga sistematikong tinukoy na mga hashtag para sa limang dimensyon ng paksa: ang mga layunin at target ng napapanatiling pag-un...

#tagcodage signifie que l'on utilise des hashtags standardisés pour associer des informations en ligne à des sujets spécifiques, afin de les structurer et de les récupérer facilement. Ce manuel présente des hashtags définis systématiquement pour quatre dimensions de sujet: les objectifs de développement durable, les activités économiques, les fonc...

The localization of sustainable development in all countries of the world depends also on innovative uses of social media. In this presentation we propose systematized hashtags for sharing and retrieving content related to specific sustainable development goals and targets. We also propose some tools to discover the hashtag for a specific developme...

On the internet and social media, hashtags are gaining popularity day by day. This little booklet proposes to use such tags in a collaborative and systematic manner. The #tags in this guideline have a world wide and a life-long utility in ordering an inclusive discourse, as if it will be proceeding in a library that is both personal and global. Ar...

An introduction to the book. It briefly addresses key points from the included papers, all by Nepalese researchers.

The competitiveness and efficiency of an enterprise is dependent on its ability to interact with other enterprises and organisations. In this context in- teroperability is defined as the ability of business processes as well as enterprise software and applications to interact. Interoperability remains a problem and there are numerous issues to be r...

New challenges result from the virtualization and distribution of product development activities. This article analyzes problems of cooperative engineering as well as methods and tools for the virtual engineering of extended products. Based on these analyses, a broad road map is proposed that articulates public- and civil-sector roles in coping wit...

As the economy becomes global and ICT-reliant, approaches practiced in enterprise software product development and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation must cope with increasingly complex situations induced by contemporary supply chain and regulations. Compliance with regulations in the market is one aspect of the requirements t...

Rationale, aims and objectives: Several stakeholders had observed the slow adoption of product model data standards in the Process Industry. The collective action failure contradicts the expectations from public good games with increasing returns to scale. No earlier research had investigated the strength of this observation, nor the possible cause...

This introductory paper to the volume explains the DIISM problem statement and applies principles of architecture descriptions for evolutionary systems (IEEE 1471-2000) to the information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing. In our vision, knowledge and skill chains depend on infrastructure systems fulfilling missions in three kinds of...

Ontology has the task to construct the most general theories concerning concrete objects, their being and becoming. Concrete objects such as products, facilities and people do also anchor the processes of an enterprise, both its operations and renewal processes. Whereas several enterprise models have been proposed in the past, none has clarified th...

The online economy and society is anticipated to undergo another wave of transformation and growth over the next decade and beyond. New economic activities will arise with new classes of networked applications and services, new forms of enterprise collaboration, new business models and new value propositions. It is generally accepted that ICT is an...

Keywords: knowledge economy, institution design, globalization, e-learning, multi-level perspective

(contribution to the International Workshop on Designing Global Information Commons for Innovation in Frontier Science; Contents: - Introduction - Socio-technical Transitions in a multi-level perspective - Multi-level Regulative Cycle? Is it a wheelwork? - Do information products induce a problematic expansion? - Architecture Commons(-for sectoral...

New challenges result from the virtualization and distribution of product development activities. This paper analyses problems of co-operative engineering as well as methods and tools of virtual engineering of extended products. Based on these analyses a broad roadmap is proposed that articulates public and civil sector roles in coping with future...

A formal modeling technique, based on colored timed Petri net and UML static structure modeling languages is used to teach students to model their business process problem as a discrete event system, before they build a working simulation model in a simulation tool (in our case Arena). Combining Petri net and UML static structure diagrams, one can...

The competitiveness and efficiency of an enterprise is dependent on its ability to interact with other enterprises and organisations. In this context interoperability is defined as the ability of business processes as well as enterprise software and applications to interact. Interoperability remains a problem and there are numerous issues to be res...

New challenges result from the virtualization and distribution of product development activities. This article analyzes problems of cooperative engineering as well as methods and tools for the virtual engineering of extended products. Based on these analyses, a broad road map is proposed that articulates public- and civil-sector roles in coping wit...

A population of committees of agents that learn by using neural networks is implemented to simulate the stock market. Each committee of agents, which is regarded as a player in a game, is optimised by continually adapting the architecture of the agents using genetic algorithms. The committees of agents buy and sell stocks by following this procedur...

Web and wireless enabled information systems are becoming the backbone of the knowledge society. For complex electromechanical and software-intensive equipment, the transition to e-maintenance involves original equipment manufacturers, the owners and operators of industrial facilities, and their service providers. Narrowly scoped technological and...

A formal modeling technique, based on colored timed Petri net and UML static structure modeling languages is used to teach students to model their business process problem as a discrete event system, before they build a working simulation model in a simulation tool (in our case Arena). Combining Petri net and UML static structure diagrams, one can...

The virtualisation and the distribution of product development activities have lead to new challenges for organisation and technology in European companies. Global competitiveness can only be assured by the development of effective and lasting strategies for creating and managing innovation. The IMS-NoE Special Interest Group 6 has analysed problem...

This chapter discusses the requirements for an advanced factory governance system. Five capital assets are distinguished: natural, artificial, human, social, and financial. A factory's operations involve and affect these five capital assets. To scope worker's activities with respect to objectives that exist for these capital assets, the chapter app...

A model driven engineering (MDE) approach is positioned w.r.t. collaborations of multiple agents acquiring information society technology (IST) capabilities. Our focus is on the stakeholders of work systems, their adaptive cycles, and their aligned assets, computation independent models in particular. When referring to the state-of-the-art in the s...

The web and wireless environment is becoming an infrastructure for speedy delivery of new information system functions within social networks consisting of enterprises and private persons. The high autonomy of participants in such networks poses a decision challenge, for instance regarding the adoption of information systems. Insights from Actor Ne...

This paper reports progress from the EEII research project where ontological stratification is applied in the study of openness. We explain a stratification approach to reduce the overall complexity of conceptual models, and to enhance their modularity. A distinction is made between ontological and epistemological stratification. The application of...

The web and wireless environment is becoming an infrastructure for speedy delivery of new information system functions within social networks consisting of enterprises and private persons. The high autonomy of participants in such networks poses a decision challenge, for instance regarding the adoptation of information systems. Insights from Actor...

This introductory paper to the volume explains the DIISM problem statement and applies principles of architecture descriptions for evolutionary systems (IEEE 1471-2000) to the information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing. In our vision, knowledge and skill chains depend on infrastructure systems fulfilling missions in three kinds of...

Preface to the conference proceedings

This introductory paper to the DIISM’04 volume explains the DIISM problem statement and applies principles of architecture descriptions for evolutionary systems (IEEE 1471–2000) to the information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing. In our vision, knowledge and skill chains depend on infrastructure systems fulfilling missions in three...

A model driven architecture (MDA) approach is applied to the architecting of a Ubiquitous and Model-driven information Infrastructure (UMI). Our focus is on the stakeholders of the ubiquitous infrastructure, the distinction between the infrastructure, the enterprises and applications accommodated by it, and the dependencies among the conceptual mod...

The appropriate use of context is a powerful tool for managing complexity asexemplified by the realization of a modern product in a globally distributed environment. We show that computational contexts can be created from the properties of entities such as the company, the project, the user, his organizational role, and the product itself. Our pape...

This introductory paper to the volume explains the DIISM problem statement and applies principles of architecture descriptions for evolutionary systems (IEEE 1471-2000) to the information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing. In our vision, knowledge and skill chains depend on infrastructure systems fulfilling missions in three kinds of...

This paper distinguishes between the business domain, the application software domain, and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform domain. It analyses historical developments in each of these three domains and shows that they experienced parallel development. The parallelism can be explained by mutual influence and alignment. In...

This work attempts to shed light on the fundamental concepts behind the stability of multi-agent systems. We view the system as a discrete time Markov chain with a potentially unknown transitional probability distribution. The system will be considered to be stable when its state has converged to an equilibrium distribution. Faced with the non-triv...

The adoption of agents as utile companions faces the problem of conciliating the development of complex and intelligent functionalities with the requirements of autonomy mobility and adaptability. Our main focus will be on the agents adaptability. A hybrid agent architecture approach is proposed where a static component, which resides at the user's...

As information infrastructure move towards open systems where agents come and go, new facilities are required so that these agents can take advantage of each other's functionalities. We need agent systems that can provide to newcomer agents a place and the right agent to interact with. Such functionality must cope with high rate of agent entrance,...

This work attempts to shed light to the fundamental concepts behind the stability of Multi-Agent Systems. We view the system as a discrete time Markov chain with a potentially unknown transitional probability distribution. The system will be considered to be stable when its state has converged to an equilibrium distribution. Faced with the non-triv...

We control a population of interacting software agents. The agents have a strategy, and receive a payoff for executing that strategy. Unsuccessful agents become extinct. We investigate the repercussions of maintaining a diversity of agents. There is often no economic rationale for this. If maintaining diversity is to be successful, i.e. without low...

Virtual enterprises (VEs), in our view, are conglomerates of regular enterprises that collaborate on an ad hoc basis to carry out an inter-organisational business process. The virtual enterprise has a dynamic structure that depends on the particular process that needs to be carried out. Enterprises can join or leave the virtual enterprise at short...

During the design of an information system we have to pay attention to its statical as well as its dynamical aspects. In Part 2 on information modeling you have learned how to model the statical aspects of an information system. In Part 3 on process modeling you have learned how to describe the dynamics of a system. In this Part, we address the int...

Virtual Enterprises, in our view, are conglomerates of regular enterprises that collaborate on an ad hoc basis to carry out an inter-organisational business process. The Virtual Enterprise has a dynamic structure that depends on the particular process that needs to be carried out. Enterprises can join or leave the Virtual Enterprise (VE) at short n...

This paper analyses the role of ontological commitment in structuring the requirements for the PSIM Environment. This environment aims to support (i) the sharing and the exchange of knowledge between the different actors involved in the design or redesign of a manufacturing enterprise; and (ii) the exchange of information between tools supporting e...

In this paper we address the modelling of humans in a context of ubiquitous information services. First we present the apparently conflicting requirements of, on the one hand avoiding data inconsistencies while reducing burdensome aspects of information technologies, and on the other hand, the respect for a person's privacy. These problems are anal...

This chapter deals with the communication interfaces existing within the PSIM enviromnent. A general overview is given of the term mapping techniques that have been applied in the interfaces. The definition, description and development of term mapping between the components of the PSIM infrastructure are analyzed and some examples are also presente...

The working Group investigated the relations between KM and BPM to increase the efficiency of enterprise collaborations in the virtual environment. The report presents a concept for connecting noth knowledge management (KM) and bousiness process modeling (BPM), and thus enhancing model decision support.

In this paper we present some new ideas on product knowledge, contexts and their use in managing the complexity of the product realization process.

In this paper we address the modelling of humans in a context of ubiquitous information services. First we present the apparently conflicting requirements of, on the one hand avoiding data inconsistencies while reducing burdensome aspects of information technologies, and on the other hand, the respect for a person’s privacy. These problems are anal...

This paper analyses the contribution to knowledge management of an enterprise reference architecture and enterprise ontologies constructed in accordance with it. A particular enterprise ontology has to support the knowledge acquisition, discovery and modeling efforts of the end-users within the context of their enterprise including the software app...

As enterprise modelling is being applied at large scale, an emerging challenge is related to managing the variety of business process models and enterprise resource models. This trend in enterprise modelling follows a similar trend in product modelling. This paper reviews to what extent themes from configuration management in product modelling can...

Some methodological aspects of developing multi-agent systems are considered in this work. In particular, influenceof analysis and design methodologies on the interoperability properties of multi-agent systems is investigatedfrom the perspective of ontology-based meaning transfer. A combined approach to developing better multi-agentsystems is propo...

In a trading scenario agents interact with each other, selling and buying resources. In order to control the behavior of the trading scenario, the interactions must be coordinated. We present a brief discussion of communication types and coordination models applicable in multi-agent systems. We find a programmable tuple space more appropriate to ma...

This paper reports on progress of the IMS PSIM project, of which one of the goals is to support the sharing and the exchange of knowledge about Manufacturing Enterprise during the phase of designing or redesigning the enterprise or part of it. The PSIM environment aims to improve the communication between the different actors implied in the design...

Increasingly, models and data pertaining to products, resources and industrial processes are being stored on computers. Moreover, corporate and personal computers and information systems are rapidly being connected into intranets, extranets, and a world wide web making ubiquitous information services for industry feasible, both from the technical a...

Mobile Agent systems appear to be a suitable approach for a large range of applications, differing in scale and construction. We are investigating the application of mobile agents within a Virtual Enterprise. Here, a promising idea is to map mobile agents to products and parts of products, which are moving across the enterprise. We identify certain...

Nowadays it is essential to anticipate on fast changes in production due to turbulent and demanding markets. The manufacturing workforce, e.g. specialized staff, management and production personnel, plays a crucial role in this process. Therefore, the EU-project 'PSIM' is started. PSIM is Participative Simulation environment for Integral (i.e., inv...

In order to evaluate a supply chain, simulation is a one of powerful approaches because of its uncertain factors. However, there are a large number of components in a supply chain, so that it is difficult to define a supply chain model for simulation. We propose a language for modeling and simulation which represents a supply chain in the combinati...

In this paper we discuss the design of a mobile agent based infrastructure for monitoring and controlling activities in a Virtual Enterprise (VE). We define the concepts of the Virtual Enterprise and the Mobile Agent Web (MA-web)

This paper addresses the modelling of the cognitive and evolutionary aspects of engineering design in support of two broad goals: the better understanding of product life cycle processes, and the development of relevant information infrastructure services. The modelling elements are derived from the Framework of Industrial Semiosis. The semiosis of...

This paper reports on the first results of the Ontology Workpackage of the HUMACS/PSIM project which started on April 1st under the IMS/EU 5th Framework Program. After summarizing guidelines for ontology development, the PSIM choices regarding domain and related knowledge areas are presented. A draft ontology configuration schema is presented. It r...

For many decades now, the focus in information technology to support the product realization process has been on data: its creation, management, and use. A general sense is emerging that data alone is no longer sufficient to support the people involved in this process. In this paper we suggest that it is time to start understanding what Knowledge i...

In recent papers we studied the use of a mobile agent framework to support the primary process in a Virtual Enterprise. We argued that the installation of standard software modules, called service bridges or docks, at the participant enterprises provides a suitable infrastructure for the use of mobile agents. The deployment of mobile software agent...

In this paper, we propose a systematisation of the monitoring and control aspects in a virtual enterprise (VE). As an instrument, we use the mobile agent paradigm, defining the concept of a mobile agent Web (MA-Web). One of the roles of the agents in this environment is to mediate negotiations between the parties of the VE. We make some assumptions...

As a subgroup within the Esprit Working Group 21108, "Integration in Manufacturing and Beyond" (IiMB), the authors are concerned with the management of product related data and knowledge in the extended enterprise considering the paradigm of the learning organisation. The focus of the work is on concepts, approaches and methods for capture, mainten...

To support life cycle management for an increasing number of artefacts in a global economy, new functions must be implemented on top of the global information networks such as the worldwide web, Extranets and intranets connecting databases and (product) data Management systems. The artefactual wheel-work is a framework for systematizing the require...

Agents are a new paradigm in software development. However, this paradigm offers new methodologies only in certain areas. Our view is that IT integration of a virtual enterprise is one of the most promising fields for agent-based software. In this paper, we present an approach based on tracker mobile agents, which is intended to support the decisio...

In a supply chain, a slight change of management strategy in one company largely affects the effectiveness of the chain as a whole. In particular, when companies generate product families, the relationships between companies are very complex, so it is difficult to analyse them mathematically. We propose a modelling and simulation method to analyse...

Within the Esprit Working Group 21108, Integration in Manufacturing and Beyond, our subgroup is concerned with the management of product data and knowledge in the extended enterprise and the learning organization. Our focus is on concepts and approaches and methods for creation, capture, maintenance, management, and use of knowledge about products...

The MiViPoRo framework offers a general systematisation of knowledge in domains where work involves the interaction of processes in both the physical domain and the information infrastructure. For the domain of engineering and manufacturing the framework assumes a further division of the cybernetic domain and the physical domain into activity layer...

Business processes are frequently becoming distributed processes. This is due to the emergence of global markets and global manufacturing made possible by improved communications and support from ERP systems. Optimization of business processes requires tuning of the process and application layers, and of the process and infrastructure layers. This...

Advanced information and communication technologies have become major enablers of manufacturing industry operations and product and process development. The paper proposes the concept of an information and command infrastructure and the role it can play as an enabler for lean, agile and sustainable industries in developing countries. An information...

An epistemological framework is defined which unifies information and command requirements of autonomous agents as they involve in enterprises and the life spans of artifacts. The framework assumes a division of the manufacturing industry domain into two sub-domains and four activity-layers. The sub-domains are the cybernetic domain and the physica...

The paper provides a summary of the discussions held in a working group during ICEIMT Workshop 4 (Enterprise Integration Principles and Fundamentals). The topic of the working group was “Formal Semantics of Enterprise Models”. In the paper, we suggest that enterprise integration is currently hindered by shortcomings of enterprise modelling language...

An operational semantics is defined for enterprise formulae (EF) -a language for specifying enterprise models- and artefact possible lives models (APLM) -a language for specifying product (life cycle) models-. The semantics is explained by means of the MiViPoRo framework. The conceptual background for the paper is drawn from early definitions of sy...

On the verge of the global information society, enterprises are competing for markets that are becoming global and driven by customer demand, and where growing specialisation is pushing them to focus on core competencies and look for partnerships to provide products and services. Simultaneously the public demands environmentally sustainable industr...

The scope of the problem of designing an information and command infrastructure for Small and Medium Size manufacturing enterprises is explained. The rôle of enterprise and industry modelling during the infrastructure design phase and the rôle of model execution services are summarized. An outline of the Ml2Cl Philippines project shows an approach...

A conceptual framework for modelling, simulation and control in manufacturing industry is proposed. The framework builds on three organizing principles: a decomposition principle, the life cycle principle, and the interflow principle. The links of these principles with the provision of information and command infrastructure services for manufacturi...

A conceptual framework for guiding the design of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing is introduced. An enterprise formula is a static mathematical object which can be developed by simultaneously refining the operation-layer functional requirements of business, engineering, and manufacturing processes, and the attributes of solution...

The authors present the result of a comparative analysis of different programming languages and systems that claim the label object-oriented. The concepts of persistence, concurrency, composition, perspective, distribution, location and mobility, communication, encapsulation, autonomy, and mutation are presented as characteristics of physical objec...

The virtualisation and the distribution of product development activities have lead to new challenges for organisation and technology in European companies. The global competitiveness can only be assured by developing effective and lasting strategies for creating and managing innovation. The IMS NoE Special Interest Group 6 has analysed problems of...

This paper is about the requirements for an advanced factory governance system. Based on Rudd's (2004) variant of Ostrom's IAD framework five capital assets are distinguished: Natural, artificial, human, social, and financial. A factory's operations involve and affect these five capital assets. To scope worker activities with respect to objectives...