Reference scenario and demo plan

Networked enterprises and multi- organization Web applications (1)  Networked enterprises can significantly benefit from new-generation web applications –able to share data and services distributed in different organizations  Web applications can be created by composing distributed services hosted in different administration domains –“distributed multi-organization Web application”

Networked enterprises and multi- organization Web applications (2)  Distributed multi-organization web applications: –services are handled under the assumption of "open world" and are provided by different organizations –they can be modified or replaced, they can disappear, and new services with different features may become available –services are executed outside the consumer infrastructure and control, at a business partner’s site  Workflow management systems can have a particular relevance for the development of these applications

The network of enterprises

Internal architecture of the ArtDeco enterprise

Wine industry  Wine industry is one of the most relevant in Italy  It shows quite conservative attitudes  Even if it is organized in consortia, these do not really encourage collaboration between their members  It could greatly benefit from a new vision of their business and from new IT technologies –Peripheral devices to control cultivation, harvesting, fermentation, storage, delivery… –Encourage interaction with the external environment (other actors, similar companies, complementary services, …)

Our main scenario  Two wine companies located in the same area –GialloRosso –BiancoRosso  Both have a similar organization but different information systems.  Surprisingly, they share some information, for instance, –GialloRosso makes available to BiancoRosso its access to data from Gambero Rosso

Players Carrier

Production and distribution

PART 1: ADAPTIVE WORKFLOW ( ) A9 (WITH LINKS TO A10 AND A11)

Adaptation of cultivation process to vineyard conditions  A daily process is started : planning is defined but… –Weather conditions are favorable to the formation of parasites (e.g. PowderyMildew) The system decides to insert in the process some specific treatments (spraying of pesticides) –Rain is inferred by listening data from a pluviometer (in alternative, humidity sensors could be used) The system decides to remove the irrigation activity from the daily process –Rain becomes heavy The system decides to insert an agronomist visit in the process –The agronomist visit is executed; the agronomist inserts the status of the vineyard in the system The harvesting is replaced with an activity for buying grapes

PART 2: LIFE-LONG VERIFICATION FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS ( ) A10

Life-long verification helps in checking that changes in WF are acceptable  A daily process is running: –The workflow is managed with the following rules: on (PowderyMildew) add Spraying; on (Rain) drop Irrigation; on (Rain) drop Spraying; on (HeavyRain) add AgronomistVisit; –and with the following constraint: Pruning ->! WeedsRemoving; The model checking of the process is ok –A new management rule is inserted in the knowledge base: on (PowderyMildew) add Pruning; –The model checking of the workflow shows some problems and the rule insertion is not performed

PART 3: DATA ANALYSIS ( ) A4, A6, A7

Contextual data analysis  At GialloRosso the oenologist and the agronomist interact with the data related to harvesting and to the wine ageing –the information they interact with depend on their role and on the workflow phase –The agronomist inserts information related to the nature of the natural phoenomena –The agronomist and the oenologist ask information related to the phase  At BiancoRosso the sales manager: – analyzes sales data – in a different moment analyzes the market trends, then –reads similar information in natural language from the web  GialloRosso performs market analyses by accessing its own information combined with market information collected by its ally BiancoRosso

… Analysis on unstructured data are crucial for many other sectors  The case of fashion using IBM Omnifind

PART 4: DATA ACQUISITION FROM THE FIELD ( ) A11

How can we obtain information from the environment?  WSN single hop and multi hop  Two integration approaches with the system backend –Web service and definition and management of SLAs –Perla

PART 6: HOW DO WE COOPERATE WITH THE ENTERPRISES IN THE NETWORK? ( ) A9

Can we get new collaboration opportunities?  GialloRosso workflow is stucked… –An urgent request for a wine pallet is arrived but no carrier is available –… by observing the other neighbor enterprises … –… we discover that BiancoRosso has a truck leaving from the same destination of GialloRosso request … –What a great opportunity for our workflow…

PART 6: DISCOVERING NEW PROCESSES ( ) A5

Discovering new processes: rationale  As in every SME, in GialloRosso the workflow does not control everything!  … but we can discover new processes by analyzing usage data from various tools, e.g., office tools

PART 7: INTEGRATION OF MODELS ( ) A9

PART 8: HOW CAN WE MATCH ALL THIS WITH BUSINESS? ( ) A1, A2, A3