The document discusses the development of sensing information systems (SIS) aimed at improving collaboration and interoperability in enterprises, particularly in the context of cyber-physical systems. It outlines key properties such as semantic interoperability, self-awareness, and perceptivity, and presents a case study on orthopedic surgery workflows using smart medical devices. Furthermore, it highlights current and future challenges in the deployment of these systems, including runtime models and business logic modeling.

1. Towards Sensing Information
Systems
Milan Zdravković*, Ovidiu Noran**,
Miroslav Trajanović*
*Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia
**Griffith University, Australia

2. Background
• Motivation
– Rising trend of transferring the communication, processing
and storage capabilities from computers to devices
• Problem
– Increasing complexity, lack of unifying models, lack of
interoperability
• CPS, WSN are becoming application silos
• Objective of the work
– Define the properties of the “future” Enterprise
Information Systems, so-called Sensing Information
Systems (SIS), hosted by the devices, and guidelines for
further research
• So Cyber Physical Systems can evolve to Cyber Physical
Ecosystems
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3. Sensing Enterprise
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4. The key issue of the SE: Enterprises
collaborate based on prior agreements
“I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
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5. NG EIS (IFAC TC5.3) – Digital alter ego
of the Sensing Enterprise
Next Generation Enterprise Information System (NG EIS)
Distributed identities
Services Models infrastructure infrastructure
Deployment platform
Interoperability Infrastructure
Core Execution
Environment
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Security
Trust
Scalability
Integrity
Performance
Omnipresence Model driven
architecture
Openness
Multiplicity of
identities
Awareness/Inclusive
sensing
Computational
flexibility
Dynamic
configurability

6. The Semantic Interoperability
challenge
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7. Semantic interoperability as a key
property of SIS
• Enablers
– Awareness
• self,
environmental,
universal
– Perceptivity
• observational,
communicative
– Intelligence
• meaningful,
purposeful
– Extroversion
Articulation Cognition
articulated-by(p,S)
Sensation Perception
sensed-by(p,R)
perceived-by(q’,R)
∧ p⇒ q’ ∧ q’⇔q
Perception Sensation
Cognition Articulation
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statement-of(q,S)
∧ p⇒ q
Articulation …. Articulation

8. SIS-driven Cyber Physical Ecosystems
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SIS
Dev SIS
SIS
Dev
Dev
CPS
CPS
Context
model Behavioral
model
Context
model

9. Case study: Extended clinical
workflows in orthopedic surgery
• Medical
sensors
– Physiological,
environment and
logistics data
– Smart
immobilization
device
– Smart
implants/fixtures
• Partner discovery
and negotiation
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Treatment management
Regist Admis
Service delivery
ration
sion
Order Lab
services
Order Rad
services
Order Pha
services
Treatment
planning
Transfer or
discharge
Order oth
services
EHR
Order cust
services
Proc/Treat
planning
Custom prod
design
Install
product
Deliver product
Source product Manufacture
product
Clinical Information System (CIS)
Procedure/Treatment Planning
Information System (PPIS)
Conceptual Product
Design Information System (PDIS)
Supply Chain Resource Planning
Information System (SCRPIS)
Resource Planning Information
System (RPIS)

10. Interested to join?
• Current and future challenges
– Runtime models (models@runtime)
• OWL Ontology scaffolding
• Business logic modeling
– Formal Specification (Z, Alloy)
– Semantic matching
• Combining deterministic and non-deterministic reasoning
– Belief vs. logical truth
– Ontology learning and optimization
• Genetic algorithms (meta-heuristics)
– “Big data” reasoning
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11. Thank you for your attention
Milan Zdravković*, Ovidiu Noran**,
Miroslav Trajanović*
Further reading:
www.masfak.ni.ac.rs/milan.zdravkovic