Transcript Empowering the business user Fact sheet  3 years Integrating Project  FP7, ICT call 3, theme 4.2  Current status: operation  Grant.

Empowering the business user
Fact sheet
 3 years Integrating Project
 FP7, ICT call 3, theme 4.2
 Current status: operation
 Grant agreement: FP7 231875
 Started: 1 January 2009
 Duration: 36 months
 Overall budget: >8 M€
 Max. funding: 5.4 M€
 Effort: 644 person.months (~18 FTE)
 Consortium
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Vendors: ILOG + Ontoprise
SBVR consultants: PNA (+ John Hall)
Use cases: Arcelor Mittal + Audi
Technology center: CTIC
Academics: TU Vienna + FU. Bozen/Bolzano + U. Paris 13
Coordinator: Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG)
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Today’s practice
IT application
developper +
Business user
verbalize
Business
vocabulary
design
Business
user
Business
Rules
BOM
XOM
IT application
developer
Execute
design
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ONTORULE’s vision
IT IT
BU
Vocabulary
+
Ontology
XOM
Business
Rules
Application
Execute
BU
BU = business user
IT = IT application developer
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Expected benefits for the user
 Starts from the business knowledge, not from the IT
application
 Closer to Business user’s concepts and vocabulary
 Supporting acquisition from business people and policy documents
 Usability
 Better modularisation and separation of concerns/levels
 Accessibility
 Maintenance, evolution
 Quality (incl. consistency, validation, tracking…)
 Re-use
 Standardisation
 SBVR + RIF + OWL (+ PRR + JSR094 +…)
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Technical developments required
WP1
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(Interactive) acquisition of ontologies and rules from business people and
(semi-) structured policy documents
 SBVR for guidance and, maybe, intermediate representation layer
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B(R+O)MS
 Tracking/managing dependencies (including with textual sources)
WP2
 Evolution and maintenance (impact of changes across dependencies)
 Consistency checking (across dependencies)
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 Distribution related issues (usability, accessibility, …)
WP1
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Operationalisation of rules
 Mapping business-level terminology onto application’s data model
 Coupling with ontology reasoner for what is not in the data model
WP3
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Execution
 Logical issues (OWA VS CWA…)
 Reasoners integration
 Distribution related issues (availability, scalability, …)
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Key objectives and innovation
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Integrating modelling and acquisition
Acquisition from textual sources
framework
Usable integrated ownership and
Managing heterogeneous knowledge
management
systems
Efficient combined execution and inference
Combining ontologies and rules
engines
Appropriate standards
Standard-based integration
End-to-end pilot applications
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Use case 1: CAx integration
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Domain
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The development process is supported by computer-aided methodologies (CAx) and
supporting tools
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Problem statement
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CAx methodologies and tools may be alternatives and/or complementary functionalities
and/or they can be used at different stages in the development process
Across CAx systems, the representation of the bills of material (BOM) varies in structure,
granularity and semantics, which makes it difficult to share, interchange, consolidate and/or
compare information across CAx methods and tools
In addition, BOMs are continuously developed
Expected outcome from ONTORULE
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Uniform representation of process knowledge and CAx method/tool competences
methods and tools should be developed that
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Computer Aided Design (CAD): used for the virtual design of car parts and verification of the geometry
Computer Aided Engineering (CAE): used for simulating the behavior of a car and its functions
Computer Aided Testing (CAT): used for performing physical tests of cars
make the BOMs comparable on a higher business level, and
maintain the interdependency-information during their life cycle (validation and verification support)
Benefits
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Business oriented orchestration and integration of CAx methods and tools
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Evolvable and maintainable
cost efficient
fulfilling all legal requirements
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Use case 2: Steel Quality Control System
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Description
 Domain: Galvanisation line
 Rules: Quality evaluation of the product → path
 Input: signals from process parameters
 Intermediate states: compound / extensive defects, qualitative assessment (types,
severity, extension of the defects)
 Output: decision wrt the appropriate path for the product: send to client, downgrade,
repair, cut, scrap, to be examined by experts
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Problems of the current system
 Maintainability of large rule base (partially) embedded in the application code
 Transferability (BOM, Rulebase)
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Expected outcome from ONTORULE
 Replication of (part of) the current system
 Assess applicability, maintainability, etc.
 Compare usability w.r.t. state-of-the-art system
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Benefits
 Improve classification accuracy
 Reduce complaints
 Reduce expert time
 Optimize repairing line use
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Concrete output, impact and exploitation
Knowledge and
best practices
(all)
WP6: Integration
and
standardization
Commercial products
(ILOG, Ontoprise)
Applications
(AUDI, ArcelorMittal)
WP1: Acquisition
standards
Specif.
RTD
WP2: Management
workpackages
WP4: CAx integration
Validation
Proto.
Req.
WP5: Steel industry
WP3: Execution
Training
and
tutorials
Open source
standard-based
specification
Standards
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Scientific papers
Demonstration
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Thank you!
Questions & Answers
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