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 from several European countries as well as China and represent 250 scientists and 70 organizations.
INTEROP-VLab was founded in 2007 and is the continuation of the INTEROP Network of Excellence (Interoperability research for networked enterprise applications and software), a research initiative of the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
founded early 2000s, which developed the
Model Driven Interoperability (MDI) Framework.
In 2012
Guy Doumeingts Guy Doumeingts (born 1938) is a French engineer, Emeritus professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 and former Director of "Laboratoire d’Automatique, Productique Signal et Image" control theory, known for the development of the GRAI method and h ...
was appointed general manager of INTEROP-VLab.
Overview
INTEROP-VLab is an initiative that is working within the context of
interoperability
Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader defi ...
, in particular the so-called
Enterprise Interoperability (EI). It aims to link together in a network researchers and research institutions and industry representatives, engaged in developing approaches and integrative solutions to connect heterogeneous industrial systems, public administrations or organizations.
The basic objective of INTEROP-VLab is the defragmentation of the European research and scientific landscape and support the cooperation of other regions of the world:
* through support of research, teaching and innovation in the field of Enterprise Interoperability
* through the work of a center of excellence in the field of Enterprise Interoperability world
Activities
The activities of INTEROP-VLab consist of research, teaching and training services and standardization consultancy.
The independent research within INTEROP-VLabs is based on the following three key components:
* Information and communication technology as a technological foundation of interoperable systems
* Modeling of processes, organizations and organizational units to develop and implement appropriate structures for interoperable companies and public organizations
* The development and specification of ontologies to ensure semantic consistency within organizations affiliated with the following priorities:
** Theoretical groundwork
** Investigation and development of key technologies
** Development of exemplary applications
Within INTEROP-VLab developed solutions include:
* IV kmap (INTEROP-VLab Knowledge Map ), a competence management system within the EI range that is based on an ontology-based search engine and allows to find relevant documents and content relating to a particular knowledge domain.
* The IV e-learning platform, with 50 web-courses and seminars in the field of EI, modeling, ontologies offers and Architecture & Platforms
Members
The members of the INTEROP-VLab are organize in poles of geographic regions within a State or group of States. Activities of each organization are coordinated at European level. The members of the INTEROP-VLab are:
* INTEROP-VLab poles France Grand Sud-Ouest (PGSO)
* DFI (German Forum for interoperability eV)
[Kai Mertins, Rainer Ruggaber, Keith Popplewell, Xiaofei Xu. ''Enterprise Interoperability III: New Challenges and Industrial Approaches.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 1 apr. 2008. p. 519]
* INTEROP-VLab UK Pole
* INTEROP-VLab China Pole
* INTEROP-VLab
INTERVAL Pole
* INTEROP-VLab Portuguese poles (INTEROP-ptrp)
* INTEROP-VLab.IT
* INTEROP North Pole
References
External links
INTEROP-VLab Website
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Enterprise modelling
International scientific organizations
Organizations established in 2007
International organisations based in Belgium