ISO 18629 PSL : A Standardised Language for Specifying and Exchanging Process Information
| Authors: | Cutting-Decelle Anne-Francoise, University of Evry / IUT, France
Pouchard Line, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Michel Jean-Jacques, Idpiconseil, France
Grüninger Michael, National Institute of Standards and TEchnology, United States |
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| Topic: | 5.3 Enterprise Integration and Networking |
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| Session: | Integration of Business and Manufacturing Control Systems - Enterprise Engineering models, tools and standards |
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| Keywords: | process specification language, ontology, technical processes, manufacturing, international standard |
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Abstract
As enterprise integration increases, developers face increasingly complex problems related to interoperability. When enterprises collaborate, a common frame of reference or at least a common terminology is necessary for human-to-human, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine communication. Ontology engineering offers a direction towards solving the inter-operability problems brought about by semantic obstacles related to the definitions of business terms and software classes. Ontology engineering is a set of tasks related to the development of ontologies for a particular domain.This paper is aimed at presenting the ISO 18629 PSL (Process Specification Language) approach to this problem of interoperability. In the first part, the architecture of the standard is described, with the main features of the language. Then, the problems of the interoperability with PSL and the conformance to the standard are presented. The paper ends with an example showing the use of the standard for interoperability.
