Model Driven Interoperability for System Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Keeping up to date requires manufacturing enterprises to use the latest results from the ICT sector. This is the case when enterprises collaborate with external partners, exchanging products and data, such as in a supply chain. Enterprises face an increase in exchanges and sharing, including machine (physical means), humans, information, and IT in collaborative organization. In this context, although interoperability management is becoming a major concern, it remains not sufficiently and properly anticipated, controlled, and accompanied to recover from incompatibilities and interaction issues or failures.

This Special Issue welcomes recent and innovative contribution works on how enterprise modelling, enterprise interoperability, and model-driven approaches can lead, together with system engineering architecture, to developing and improving enterprise and supply chain interoperability.

Model-driven (MD) approaches are based and rely strongly on modelling. They offer enterprises internal development guidelines and good practices but unfortunately do not consider the interoperability that is required between partners when setting a collaboration. As a result, model-driven system engineering architecture (MDSEA), extended with interoperability concerns, has led to the design of the model-driven interoperability system engineering (MDISE) framework, which capitalizes on research on enterprise interoperability.

This call welcomes papers highlighting concepts, methods, and tools focusing on the extension of model-driven approaches and principles to interoperability to build relevant and efficient collaboration between organizations.

Prof. Dr. Greg Zacharewicz
Dr. Nicolas Daclin
Prof. Dr. Guy Doumeingts
Dr. Hezam Haidar
Guest Editors

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