An ontology-based collaborative business service selection: contributing to automatic building of collaborative business process

International audienceWith worldwide inter-enterprise collaboration and interoperability background, automatic collaborative business process deduction is a crucial researching subject. We have designed a methodology of deducing collaborative process by only collecting collaborative objectives and partners’ business services. The two key problems are (i) selecting corresponding business services for a set of collaborative objectives and (ii) ordering business services with serializations and parallelization. This paper aims to present a solution of business service selection and the following business process extraction. In order to solve the problem, we have defined a collaborative ontology, which contains numerous instances of business services and processes from the MIT process handbook. The collaborative ontology contains essential concepts in collaborative situations and process-deducing rules and algorithms. We provide a brief illustration of implementation within a SaaS toolkit called Mediator Modeling 2ool

Vers un management de la continuité d'activité dirigé par les modèles : application à la prise en charge à domicile

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale.International audience"Les technologies d’information et de communication sont reconnues comme des éléments inévitables pour améliorer les pratiques métiers. Elles sont même devenues des éléments déterminants dans la faisabilité dans de secteurtel que la prise en charge à domicile. Cependant, ces organisations évoluent dans un environnement très dynamique et incertain.Au regard de perturbations, endogènes et exogènes, auxquelles sont confrontées les organisations, elles se doivent de réagir de manière agile aux aléas et de faire preuve de résilience. Le management de la continuité d’activité (MCA) estune approche de management des organisations répondant à ces attentes. Notre motivation est la définition d’un cadre méthodologique permettant de mettre en oeuvre le management de la continuité d’activité au sein d’un système sociotechnique.Ce cadre repose sur (i) la définition et la conception d’un méta-modèle de référence fondé sur l’intégration du management de la continuité d’activité dans l’ingénierie d’entreprise et (ii) la définition d’un langage de modélisationétendu aux concepts du MCA. Un cas d’étude du domaine de la prise en charge à domicile vient illustrer le bien fondé de l’application de ce cadre méthodologique sur une base réelle et concrète.

Innovative process engineering: a generic model of the innovation process

International audienceInnovation can be represented as a knowledge transformation process perceived with different levels of granularity. The milestones of this process allow assessment for its each step and set up feedback loops that will be highlighted. This innovation process is a good starting point to understand innovation and then to manage it. Best practices being patterns of processes, we describe innovation best practices as compulsory steps in our innovation process. To put into practice, the management of innovation in a concrete organisation, an alignment (in our case a mapping) between a repository of business processes and our typical innovation process, helps to describe which best practice applies to which business process

L’empreinte de la mort. Étudier et restaurer un masque funéraire

Si la pratique du masque mortuaire est mentionnée dès l’Antiquité, très peu d’exemples sont conservés avant le xixe siècle. C’est pourquoi le masque du Louvre, daté du xve siècle, présente un intérêt tout particulier. L’étude et la restauration de ce masque funéraire de femme, exécuté en terre cuite, ont permis de préciser les techniques de mise en œuvre aussi bien formelle que picturale. L’œuvre a été obtenue à partir d’une prise d’empreinte sur nature. Puis elle a été en partie modelée, avant d’être disposée au centre d’un support en forme de coquille, entouré d’une couronne de laurier. Enfin, elle a été polychromée avec des techniques picturales propres au xve siècle en Italie. Il existe au Victoria and Albert Museum un masque mortuaire d’homme, tout à fait similaire autant par sa composition que par sa mise en œuvre. Le rapprochement entre les deux œuvres pose la question de l’identité des figures représentées.While the practice of making death masks is mentioned in Antiquity, very few examples survived in collections before the 19th century. That is why the mask now in the Louvre, dating from the 15th century, is particularly interesting. The study and restoration of the terracotta Funerary Mask of a Woman shed light on the specific modelling and pictorial techniques employed. The work was obtained through making a cast of the woman’s face after her death. Then it was modelled to a certain extent, before being placed in the centre of a shell-shaped support, encircled by a laurel wreath. Lastly, polychromy was added using painting techniques peculiar to 15th-century Italy. A death mask of a man, identical in composition and handling, is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The similarity between the two portraits raises questions about the identity of the two people represented

An Event-Driven Platform for Agility Management of Crisis Response

International audienceThis article aims at presenting a whole approach of Information System Interoperability management in a crisis management cell: a Mediation Information System (MIS) may be used to help the crisis cell partners to design, run and manage the workflows of the response to a crisis situation. The architecture of the MIS meets the needs of low coupling between the partners' Information System components and the need of agility for such a platform. It is based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles that are combined to the Complex Event Processing (CEP) principles. This should leads on the one hand to an easier orchestration, choreography and real-time monitoring of the workflows' activities, on the other hand to assume on-the-fly automated agility of the crisis response (considering agility as the ability of the processes to remain consistent with the response to the crisis)

Formal Specification, Implementation, and Evaluation of the AdoBPRIM Approach

Modeling is one of the fundamental aspects of Risk-aware Business Process Management. The conceptualization of new modeling approaches needs to integrate all abstraction layers of risk and business process concepts and requires a highly specialized knowledge in conceptual modeling foundations and formal specification of meta-models. This paper introduces a risk-aware business process modeling approach based on the BPRIM method. In order to comprehensively and unambiguously specify the proposed approach, we revert to the FDMM formalism. Furthermore, a corresponding software prototype called AdoBPRIM has been implemented using the ADOxx meta-modeling platform to assess the technical feasibility of the approach. The usability of the tool has been empirically evaluated and a healthcare process-based example is presented as a proof-of-concept. We show that the AdoBPRIM approach enables Risk-aware Business Process Management with an excellent usability. In summary, this paper constitutes a best-practice for formally specifying, technically implementing, and empirically evaluating modeling method conceptualizations