Empowering the business user. A project funded by 2 csma/v1.1/140509 © ONTORULE Consortium, all right reserved Fact sheet 3 years Integrating Project.

Empowering the business user

A project funded by

2csma/v1.1/140509 © ONTORULE Consortium, all right reserved

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 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

XOM

BOMBusiness

Rules

Businessvocabulary

Applicationdesign

verbalizedesign

ExecuteIT application

developer

Business user

IT application developper +Business user

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ONTORULE’s vision

XOM

BusinessRules

Application

Execute

Vocabulary+

OntologyBU

BU

ITITITIT ITIT

BU = business userIT = 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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WP

1W

P3

WP

2W

P1

Technical developments required (Interactive) acquisition of ontologies and rules from business people and (semi-)

structured policy documents SBVR for guidance and, maybe, intermediate representation layer

B(R+O)MS Tracking/managing dependencies (including with textual sources)

Evolution and maintenance (impact of changes across dependencies)

Consistency checking (across dependencies) All XXX are discounted 10% during the Holiday period

YYYs are never discountable

Distribution related issues (usability, accessibility, …)

Operationalisation of rules Mapping business-level terminology onto application’s data model

Coupling with ontology reasoner for what is not in the data model

Execution Logical issues (OWA VS CWA…)

Reasoners integration

Distribution related issues (availability, scalability, …)

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Key objectives

Integrating modelling and acquisition framework

Usable integrated ownership and management systems

Efficient combined execution and inference engines

Appropriate standards End-to-end pilot applications

Acquisition from textual sources

Managing heterogeneous knowledge

Combining ontologies and rules

Standard-based integration

and innovation

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Use case 1: CAx integration

Domain The development process is supported by computer-aided methodologies (CAx) and supporting tools

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

Problem statement 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

Uniform representation of process knowledge and CAx method/tool competences methods and tools should be developed that

make the BOMs comparable on a higher business level, and maintain the interdependency-information during their life cycle (validation and verification support)

Benefits Business oriented orchestration and integration of CAx methods and tools

Evolvable and maintainable cost efficient fulfilling all legal requirements

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Use case 2: Steel Quality Control System

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

Problems of the current system Maintainability of large rule base (partially) embedded in the application code Transferability (BOM, Rulebase)

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

Benefits Improve classification accuracy

Reduce complaints Reduce expert time Optimize repairing line use

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Concrete output

WP1: Acquisition

WP2: Management

WP3: Execution

WP4: CAx integration

WP5: Steel industry

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standards Proto.Specif. Req.Validation

Standards

Open source standard-based

specificationScientific papers Public demonstrators

Training and

tutorials

, impact

Commercial products(ILOG, Ontoprise)

Knowledge and best practices

(all)

Applications(AUDI, ArcelorMittal)

and exploitation

RTD workpackages

Demonstration workpackages

Thank you!

Questions & Answers

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