Guy Doumeingts (born 1938) is a French engineer, Emeritus professor at the

University of Bordeaux 1 The University of Bordeaux 1 (french: Université Bordeaux-I) was one of the four universities in the Academy of Bordeaux, together with the Bordeaux Segalen University (Bordeaux 2), Michel de Montaigne University (Bordeaux 3) and Montesquieu ...

and former Director of "Laboratoire d’Automatique, Productique Signal et Image" control theory, known for the development of the

GRAI method The GRAI method, GRAI is short for Graphs with Results and Actions Inter-related, and the further developed GRAI Integrated Methodology (GIM) is a modeling method of Enterprise modelling. The GRAI method was first proposed by Guy Doumeingts in ...

and his contributions to the field of

Enterprise modelling Enterprise modelling is the abstract representation, description and definition of the structure, processes, information and resources of an identifiable business, government body, or other large organization. It deals with the process of underst ...

Biography

Doumeingts received his MS at the

, where in 1984 he also received his PhD in Control Theory with the thesis, entitled ''La Méthode GRAI''. Doumeingts spend his academic career at the University Bordeaux I, where he was appointed professor and initiated and directed the GRAI/LAP (Laboratory of Automation and Productics). He chaired the Technical Committee on Computer Application in Technology at the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and was member of the Editorial Board of several journals. In 2012 Doumeingts was elected General Manager of

INTEROP-VLab The INTEROP V-Lab (''International Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability'') is a network of organizations, which links scientists, research centers, representatives of industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises. The members come f ...

(International Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability), a network of scientists and organizations to further develop and promote

Enterprise interoperability Enterprise interoperability is the ability of an enterprise—a company or other large organization—to functionally link activities, such as product design, supply chains, manufacturing, in an efficient and competitive way. The research in inte ...

Work

''Enterprise Interoperability,'' 2007

In the preface of ''Enterprise Interoperability,'' Doumeingts et al. explained the importance of Interoperability for the Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs):

Over the past 20 years, the business world has been changing significantly, and concepts of cross-enterprise collaboration have been promoted to the center of enterprise strategy. For some organizations, doing business globally has become critical to their survival; others discover new opportunities by focusing their business on a local setting. Not only large organizations set up cooperation agreements with other enterprises, but also SMEs are combining forces to compete jointly in the market. Nowadays, the competitiveness of an enterprise is largely determined by its ability to seamlessly interoperate with others.Guy Doumeingts, Jörg Müller, Gérard Morel, and
Bruno Vallespir Bruno Vallespir (born 1960) is a French engineer, and Professor of Enterprise Modelling at the University of Bordeaux, working in the fields of production management, performance evaluation and enterprise modeling.Ejub Kajan eds. (2011) ''Electron ...
. ''Enterprise Interoperability.'' Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2007. p. v.

And furthermore specifically about Interoperability in the context of enterprises:

Interoperability in the context of enterprises and enterprise applications can be defined as the ability of a system or a product to work seamlessly with other systems or products without requiring special effort from the customer or user. The possibility to interact and exchange information internally and with external organisations is a key issue in the enterprise sector. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and services quickly, at lower cost, while maintaining higher levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is considered to be achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account the semantics issues. It is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared process models and business references.

Selected publications

Doumeingts published several books and over 200 articles in the field of enterprise modelling. Books: * Guy Doumeingts and William A. Carter. ''Advances in production management systems : production management systems in the eighties : proceedings of the IFIP WG 5.7 Working Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS "82", Bordeaux, France, 24–27 August 1982.'' * Guy Doumeingts, Jimmie Browne, Marco Tomljanovich (1991) ''Computer applications in production and engineering.'' * Guy Doumeingts, J. Browne (1997), ''Modelling Techniques for Business Process Re-engineering.'' *

Peter Bernus Peter Bernus (born 1949) is a Hungarian Australian scientist and Associate Professor of Enterprise Architecture at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

, Guy Doumeingts,

Mark S. Fox Mark Stephen Fox (born 1952) is a Canadian computer scientist, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto, known for the development of Constraint Directed Scheduling in ...

(2010). ''Enterprise Architecture, Integration and Interoperability'' Articles, a selection: * Doumeingts, Guy,

Bruno Vallespir Bruno Vallespir (born 1960) is a French engineer, and Professor of Enterprise Modelling at the University of Bordeaux, working in the fields of production management, performance evaluation and enterprise modeling.Ejub Kajan eds. (2011) ''Electron ...

, and David Chen.
Methodologies for designing CIM systems: A survey
" ''Computers in Industry'' 25.3 (1995): 263-280. * Doumeingts, Guy,

, and David Chen. "GRAI grid decisional modelling." ''Handbook on architectures of information systems.'' Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. 313-337. * Doumeingts, G., Ducq, Y., Vallespir, B., & Kleinhans, S. (2000). "Production management and enterprise modelling." ''Computers in Industry,'' 42(2), 245-263. * Chen, David, and Guy Doumeingts. "European initiatives to develop interoperability of enterprise applications—basic concepts, framework and roadmap." ''Annual Reviews in Control'' 27.2 (2003): 153-162. * Chen, David, Guy Doumeingts, and

François Vernadat François B. Vernadat (born 1954) is a French and Canadian computer scientist, who has contributed to Enterprise Modelling, Integration and Networking over the last 25 years specialising in enterprise architectures, business process modelling, in ...

.
Architectures for enterprise integration and interoperability: Past, present and future
" Computers in industry 59.7 (2008): 647-659. *

Gregory Zacharewicz Gregory Zacharewicz is Full Professor at École des mines d'Alès ( National Institute of Mining and Telecommunications) in Alès, France. He recently joined the LGI2P laboratory in 2018 to develop research based on simulation. He was previously A ...

, Saikou Y. Diallo, Yves Ducq, Carlos Agostinho, Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves, Hassan Bazoun, Zhongjie Wang, Guy Doumeingts: Model-based approaches for interoperability of next generation enterprise information systems: state of the art and future challenges. Inf. Syst. E-Business Management 15(2): 229-256 (2017).

References

External links

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