Dear CHOOSE member:

We are glad to invite you to a talk given by Richard McClatchey 
and Jean-Marie Le Goff on

"The Role of Design Patterns and Meta-Models in Integrating Product
and Process Models."

The presentation will be given in English.
It is free for CHOOSE members and invited guests.

Best regards,
The CHOOSE Board



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The Role of Design Patterns and Meta-Models in Integrating Product
and Process Models
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Wednesday, September 15th, 1999, 17:15h

University of Bern, Room 002
Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern

Travel instructions:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/English/Texts/finding.html


Speakers
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Richard McClatchey
Director, Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, UWE

Jean-Marie Le Goff
EP Division, CERN, 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland


Agenda
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17:15 Presentation (about 1h)


Abstract
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In data modelling, product information has most often been handled
separately from process information. The integration of product and
process models in a unified data model could provide the means by which
information could be shared across an enterprise throughout the system
lifecycle from design through to production. Recently attempts have been
made to integrate these two separate views of systems through
identifying common data models (and meta-models). This presentation
relates description-driven systems to multi-layer architectures and
reveals where existing design patterns facilitate the integration of
product and process models and where patterns are missing or where
existing patterns require enrichment for this integration. It reports on
the construction of a so-called description-driven system which
integrates Product Data Management (PDM) and Workflow Management (WfM)
data models through a common meta-model. The vehicle for the current
study of product and process integration is a project entitled CRISTAL
which is being developed by a large international collaboration at CERN
to manage the construction of complex apparatus for high energy physics
experiments. 


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