Active Knowledge Modeling of Enterprises (eBook)

Frank Lillehagen, John Krogstie (Autoren)

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2008 | 2008
XX, 436 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-79416-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Enterprise Modeling has been defined as the art of externalizing enterprise knowledge, i.e., representing the core knowledge of the enterprise. Although useful in product design and systems development, for modeling and model-based approaches to have a more profound effect, a shift in modeling approaches and methodologies is necessary. Modeling should become as natural as drawing, sketching and scribbling, and should provide powerful services for capturing work-centric, work-supporting and generative knowledge, for preserving context and ensuring reuse. A solution is the application of Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM).

The AKM technology is about discovering, externalizing, expressing, representing, sharing, exploring, configuring, activating, growing and managing enterprise knowledge. An AKM solution is about exploiting the Web as a knowledge engineering medium, and developing knowledge-model-based families of platforms, model-configured workplaces and services.

This book was written by the inventors of AKM arising out of their cooperation with both scientists and industrial practitioners over a long period of time, and the authors give examples, directions, methods and services to enable new ways of working, exploiting the AKM approach to enable effective c-business, enterprise design and development, and lifecycle management. Industry managers and design engineers will become aware of the manifold possibilities of, and added values in, IT-supported distributed design processes, and researchers for collaborative design environments will find lots of stimulation and many examples for future developments.

Frank Lillehagen is President and CEO of Active Knowledge Modeling AS, the third company he has co-founded. From 1974 to 1985, he pioneered computer graphics and CAD in many Scandinavian industry sectors, and co-founded Eurographics in 1980. Overall, Frank developed four commercial CAD systems and the Metis modeling tools (now owned by Troux Technologies) and received many awards for his contributions to industrial innovation.

John Krogstie is Professor in Information Systems at IDI, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, and also a senior advisor at SINTEF. Prior to that, he was employed as a manager with Accenture. John is the Norwegian Representative for IFIP TC8 and vice-chair of IFIP WG 8.1 on information systems design and evaluation.

Inhalt

Preamble 5
Table of Contents 13
1 What is Active Knowledge Modeling Technology? 21
1.1 Definition of Active Knowledge Modeling 24
1.2 State-of-the-art Overview 27
1.3 Discoveries and Core Concepts 29
1.4 State-of-Practice – An Example 30
1.5 The AKM Products 34
1.6 Enterprise Knowledge Spaces 34
1.7 Active Knowledge Architectures 36
1.8 The Core Modeling Languages 41
1.9 Towards Enterprise Visual Scenes 42
1.10 Implications and Impacts 45
2 Customer Challenges and Demands 47
2.1 Background 47
2.2 Society and Community Cooperation 50
2.3 Collaborative Business Networking 60
2.4 Interoperable Enterprise Collaboration 67
2.5 Innovation and Holistic Design 75
2.6 Knowledge and Data Representation 80
2.7 Personal Workplaces and Interaction 81
2.8 Summary 83
3 Industrial Evolutions 85
3.1 History of AKM Development 85
3.2 Experiences from EXTERNAL 87
3.3 Experiences from ATHENA 102
3.4 Summary 110
4 State of the Art of Enterprise Modeling 111
4.1 Industrial Diversity of Meaning and Usage 111
4.2 International EM Markets 113
4.3 Application Domains 114
4.4 Enterprise Modeling Frameworks and Architectures 121
4.5 Conclusions on Enterprise Architecture Frameworks 145
5 Enterprise Knowledge Architecture ( EKA) 149
5.1 Knowledge Architectures 149
5.2 Principles for Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM) 151
5.3 EKA (Enterprise Knowledge Architecture) 153
5.4 AKM Execution: Interactive Behavior 161
5.5 Summary 170
6 Approaches to Enterprise Solutions 173
6.1 Product-Oriented Business Interoperability Profiles 174
6.2 State of the Art and Requirements for Enterprise Solutions 179
6.3 Product-Based Interoperability Approaches 184
6.4 Summary 210
7 Introducing Active Knowledge Modeling in Industry 213
7.1 Major Industrial Computing Challenges Revisited 213
7.2 The Customer Delivery Process 214
7.3 Each C3S3P Step 216
7.4 Service Teams 232
7.5 Integrated Product and Services Platforms 233
7.6 AKM Approach to Customer Projects 234
7.7 Summary 245
8 Families of Platforms and Architectures 247
8.1 The MAPPER Architecture 249
8.2 Component Descriptions 251
8.3 Task Patterns 263
8.4 Task Management 270
8.5 Summary 277
9 Enterprise Design and Development 279
9.1 The CPPD Project Context 281
9.2 Addressing Industrial Demands 285
9.3 The AKM Approach to Product Design 289
9.4 The CPPD Components 296
9.5 Example of CVW 306
9.6 Summary 319
10 Realizing the Knowledge Economy 321
10.1 Background 322
10.2 Networked Business Theories 324
10.3 Realization Approaches 334
10.4 EU Research 336
10.5 AKM Contributions 338
10.6 Building Industrial Platforms 345
10.7 Impacts and Consequences 347
10.8 Outlook 351
11 Toward Enterprise Visual Scenes 353
11.1 Main Principles for Enterprise Visual Scenes 353
11.2 Three-Dimensional Model Applications in Industry 355
11.3 Nonindustrial Applications 364
11.4 Real Virtuality and Augmented Reality 368
11.5 New Modeling and Visualization Techniques 373
11.6 Future Solutions 376
11.7 Summary 378
12 Scientific Foundations of AKM Technology 379
12.1 Epistemology 379
12.2 Human Learning, Pedagogy and Psychology 383
12.3 Natural Language, Linguistics and Semiotics 391
12.4 Process Design and Engineering 396
12.5 Organizational Development and Learning 400
12.6 Product Design and Engineering 403
12.7 Systems Engineering 404
12.8 Summary 406
13 Enterprise Knowledge Spaces 407
13.1 Enterprise Knowledge Spaces Revisited 407
13.2 Modeling of Enterprise Knowledge Spaces 408
13.3 Summary 417
14 Summary and Directions 419
14.1 Core Principles and Solutions 420
14.2 Addressing the Main Challenges 425
14.3 Industrial Exploitation 427
14.4 The Way Ahead 429
References 431
Terminology and Abbreviations 445
Index 453

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 436 p. 148 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Design • Development • Enterprise Architecture • enterprise modeling • knowledge management • Management • Model-Driven Architecture • Modeling • Technology • Time
• ISBN-10: 3-540-79416-6 / 3540794166
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-79416-5 / 9783540794165