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1. Interoperability in the Model
Accelerated Society
Jan Goossenaerts
Eindhoven University of Technology
the Netherlands
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2. Motivation, problem area
CONTEXT:
• infrastructure acquisition (IA) project of the
knowledge society
• e-Europe Action Plan = many small projects
PROBLEM:
Poor sustained and multiplicative acceptance of
project results due to socio-diversity & techno-
diversity
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3. Research Objectives
• Insight in the transition to a knowledge
society; hurdles and facilitators
• “Design Oriented” Objective: an
architecture description of society-wide
services for sustained and multiplicative
acceptance of project results
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4. Research approach, Methodology
• Build upon established results:
– Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT):
“remediation”: different social agents utilizing new and
improved IST instruments (technical artifacts, systems,
and processes)
– goal and domain models at the CIM* layer of MDA**
“a response to techno-diversity”
– interoperability classification:
pragmatic – semantic – technical
• Generating & analysing scenarios (stylistic objectives)
*CIM: Computation Independent Models (CIM)
** MDA: OMG Model Driven Architecture
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5. Major Outcomes/Results
• solution direction for the problem of poor
sustained and multiplicative acceptance of
project results (e-Europe action plan; IST)
• architecture description of services for
sustained and multiplicative acceptance
• identified gaps:
– business models
– (intellectual) property regimes
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6. A Decisional Reference Model
(for the problem area)
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COULD_BE
institutions
analysis&
design activity
Problem
society operations & transition
Objectives
Perf. Indicators
e-Europe Action
Plan/ Projects
AS_IS institutions
technology offer
executive
activity (ea)
governance
activity (ga)
practise
repository
measurement
activity
Natural Cap. Social Cap.
Capital Assets
Human Cap.
Financ. Cap.
Artifact. Cap.

7. The scope of IST projects
(using “model switching architecture”)
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Open Policy: Mission fulfilment;
Competition
Tech-
neutrality
TO BE
Current Situation
AS-IS
Vision
Time
Past Future
Present
Problem
Domain
(Identification)
Solution
Domain
(Conceptual
View)
<< analysis
& design>>
(Develop-
ment View)
System
(Physical
View)
event
CIM CIM’
extend
map
extend
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM’
<<< -----Governance---------------------------------------------------------->>>
<<Management------- >>
action
con-
trol
-----Operations & Transition->
<-
script
map
Scenario
PIM
PIM
PSM
PIM
PIM
PSM’
roadmap
Technology
Trend
Need
Trend

8. The Role of MDA Models
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Conception &
model building
CIM
Interface description
systems engineering
PIM
PSM
RISK: defining
wrong problem
RISK: unnecessarily
constraining solution
DBMS
RISK: Not
meeting
requirements
Engineering &
detailed design
Testing
& Acceptance
Evaluation
& Adaptation
Client need &
resources
Operation &
Diagnosis
Development &
Production
CIM
PIM
PSM
consi-
stent
DBMS
CIM’=CIM +CIM
Problem

9. Open Policy: Mission fulfilment;
Competition
The scope of a social agent
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Tech-neutrality
TO BE
Current Situation
AS-IS
Vision
Time
Past Future
Present
Problem
Domain
(Identification)
Solution
Domain
(Conceptual
View)
<< analysis
& design>>
(Develop-
ment View)
System
(Physical
View)
event
CIM CIM’
extend
map
extend
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM
PIM’
<<< -----Governance---------------------------------------------------------->>>
<<Management------- >>
action
con-
trol
-----Operations & Transition->
<-
script
map
Scenario
PIM
PIM
PSM
PIM
PIM
PSM’
roadmap
Technology
Trend
Need
Trend

10. Transition for the social agent
• Agent’s own objectives and operations are
rather stable
• The agent has acquired a range of IST
instruments (capital investment):
– Actions & processes (learned)
– hardware etc (purchased, leased, contracted)
• The agent makes a cost-benefit evaluation
prior to acquiring new “capability”
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11. Transition pressure points for
project results
• Project motives and deliverables have not been
anchored with respect to “shared” objectives &
assets
• Results “amalgamate” design decisions that derive
from technology neutral domain, with technology
specific issues; this has consequences:
– Aging of the technology will devalue the result
– the result cannot be multiplied; it can only be applied in
rare and very similar situations (except with significant
extra investments)
Acceptance inefficiencies for project results & IST Instruments
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12. Conclusion and outlook
 take-up risks of e-Europe project results may be
reduced by (mandatory) deployment of “model
ware” throughout project life cycle
 the technical realization of services for sustained
and multiplicative acceptance is feasible: “model
switching architecture”
? Intellectual property regimes and business
models?
! a road to higher return on (public) investment!
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