The document discusses the Airport Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS) which was established by Airports Council International (ACI) to establish airport information sharing standards. ACRIS has developed a semantic model and integrated model management platform to address issues with fragmented standards and data quality problems in airport information sharing. The semantic model is based on industry models and global standards, and the model management platform provides tools for collaborative modeling and change management of the semantic model.

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Segun Alayande
Architecture Programmes Manager
Heathrow Airport.
Chair ACRIS ASMCoP.
Bob Logan
Director, Rockport Software
EA User Group Conference.
19th May 2015. London.
Airport Community Recommended Information
Services (ACRIS)

2. Agenda
 Context – Airport Ecosystem
 ACRIS
 Semantic Model
 Integrated Model Management Platform

3. The Airport Service Ecosystemervice
Ecosystem
Airport
Service
Ecosystem
Airlines
Air Navigation
Services
Providers
Government
Agencies
Ground
Handling
Service
Providers
Ground
Transportation
Service
Providers
Emergency
Services
Providers
Non-Aviation
Services &
Goods
Providers
Community
Interest Groups
Airports
 Multiple players
 Multiple objectives, capabilities
and perspectives
 Common Customer – the
Passenger
 Success of the ecosystem
influences success of individual
members

4. Collaboration in the Airport
 Airport services are
delivered by inter-
organisational collaborative
processes
 Collaborative processes are
business context for shared
information
 Business interactions
include:
 Business to Business
 Business to Government
 Business to Passenger
Airport Aviation
Partner
Shared
Information
Collaboration Objectives
Aviation
Partners

5. Public Transport
Organisations
•TRANSMODEL
Government
Agencies
•WCO Data Model
Airlines
Organisations
•IATA AIDX
•IATA Cargo XML
•IATA Invoice
Air Navigation
Organisations
•SESAR AIRM
•SESAR OATA
•SESAR FOIPS
•SESAR AICM
•SESAR WIXM
•SESAR FIXM
Operations data of variable quality is created or updated
within collaborative processes
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6. Communication Problems
 Industry silo
 Industry standards organisations have many groups working in silo
 Fragmented business knowledge
 XML schema not based on a common world view of the Airport business
 Semantic ambiguity
 Uncontrolled business vocabulary
 Poor data standards – XML is not a data standard
 Lack of data governance
 Data quality issues – no meaningful data
 Coordination of collaborative work is difficult
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7. Airport Community Recommended Information Services
(ACRIS)RIS
 The Airports Council International
(ACI) represents the interests of
Airports globally.
 The ACI established the ACRIS
work group in 2009 to do the
following:
 Establish Airport information
sharing standards
 Apply service oriented principles
and Airport domain knowledge to
information services development
 Adopt global standards where
appropriate

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Chair (Ch)
Vice Chair (VC)
Ch
ACRIS Working Group (Plenary)
ACRIS Semantic Model
Community of Practice
ASMCoP Ch
ACRIS Technical and
Methodical Subgroup
(TSG)
VC
ACI World Office
Project A
Project B
Project C
…
The ACRIS organization
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9. ACRIS Work Products
 Project Initiation Documents
 Recommended Practices
 Semantic Model
 XML schema and WSDL files
 Integrated Model Management Platform
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10. ACRIS Semantic Model
A collection of knowledge - driven
models organised to support meaningful
communication for business
collaboration
The purpose is:
 Establish standards for information
sharing and enable cross-industry
business communication
The model contains:
 Collaboration process models
 Domain vocabularies
 Domain knowledge models
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11. Public Transport
Organisations
•TRANSMODEL
Government
Agencies
•WCO Data Model
Airlines
Organisations
•IATA Airlines
Industry Data
Model
Air Navigation
Organisations
•SESAR AIRM
•SESAR FIXM
ACRIS SM builds on partner industry models
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ACI ACRIS Semantic Model

12. ACRIS SM Structure

13. User Comments
“I’m very happy to see that some airports (YYZ, YUL and YYZ) are really interested in
the Semantic Model after the presentation you gave at the ACRIS meeting. I’m also
excited to see that YYC has started to use Semantic Model and they are satisfied”.
Serge Nguewo - Manager, Facilitation and Airport IT, ACI World.
“I’ve loaded it into Sparx and have been going through it for a couple of hours now.
This is amazing work that will help us so much”.
Mike Poulin - Enterprise Architect, IT&T. Calgary Airport, Canada
“I found the model extremely useful in designing architectures in my projects. The
model enables integration of disparate systems across business domains and
facilitates re-use of information components. It also helps in the control and impact
analysis of changes”
Pratip Chaudhuri - Senior Solution Architect, Capgemini

14. Model Management Principles
 Airport business is global therefore;
 Collaborate and seek global participation
 Leverage industry models ... incorporate partner, industry models at
all levels
 Adopt global standards to:
 Formally represent and use Airport community knowledge
 UN/CEFACT UMM, CCTS and OMG UML
 Formally manage changes to model and service configuration
 ITIL based change management process
 Data element names and formats
 ISO 11179, ISO 15000 and UN/CEFACT NDR 3.0
 Apply automation appropriately – allow for various levels of
technology maturity

15. Reusable library & Web Services Development
Processes
Terminology Analysis
Knowledge
Modelling
Data Standards
Development
Library Design
Service
Requirements
Analysis
Message Modelling
Service Schema
Design
Web Services Design
CCTS based
Library
ASMCoP
Projects

16. ACRIS SM Change Management Process

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(auto generated)
Definition
Mandatory
Working comments and
instructions
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 SharePoint Semantic Model Collaboration Platform
 RFC management and document management
 Sparxsystems Enterprise Architect
 United Nations CEFACT UMM & UPCC3 Profiles
 Sparxsystems Schema Builder for UNCEFACT NDR 3.0
 MS Word & Excel Spreadsheet Templates
 Data items mapping
Tools & Technologies

18. ACRIS Integrated Model Management Platform
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SharePoint
Collaborative Platform
ACRIS Semantic Model
Repository
Project
Documents
(e.g. Use
Cases,
Vocabularie
s, Function
Models)
Information
(e.g.
Reports,
Documents)
Physical
Components
(e.g. XSD,
WSDL)
Architects
and
Modellers
User
Interface

19. ACRIS Integrated Model Management Platform
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20. THANK YOU
ACI – Leading, representing and serving the global airport community
www.aci.aero
© 2012 Airports Council International