Peter Bernus, 29 August 1999

New Mandate A number of Task Force members have expressed their opinions on the work that the Task Force should undertake in its third mandate and what this mandate should exactly be. Some proposals concern new items of work, while some propose the improvement and refinement of the present Task Force results (namely GERAM). The discussions started at the Brisbane (Sanctuary Cove) strategic meeting that was jointly organised by the IFIP-IFAC Task Force and ISO TC184/SC5/WG1. The Task Force will discuss this issue at its next meeting on 5 July 1999 (Beijing, IFAC World Congress). Members are asked to express their opinion on the Task Force mailing list wg5-12-list@cit.gu.edu.au which is also available as a hypermail archive (requires password). Importantly some new work items are standards work while others should be pursued by the Task Force before they can be channeled to standards or other channels of dissemination. Please indicate your opinion in this regard as well. The Task Force will attempt to draft a working plan for the next mandate -- starting at the 5 July 1999, Beijing meeting. The chair attempts to keep an up-to-date SUMMARY

Discussion documents Mailing List archives: 1999 1998 1997 1996 (requires password) Laszlo Nemes Ei Work in the Globeman Consortium (Powerpoint slides, zip archive) Vernadat 'Simulation Tools..' and 'Enterprise Modelling' papers (zip archive) Verdal ICEM99 discussion results (ppt slides zipped) Peter Bernus: Proposed work items for the IFIP-IFAC Task Force (June 1999) Peter Bernus: Concept level standard for EEM (April 1999) Jim Nell: Road-map discussions (April 1999) Open Group Architectural Framework TOGAF Terry Rout and Peter Bernus: An architecture for defining the processes of the software and systems life cycles (1999) Jim Nell: Potential projects in enterprise representation (March 1999) Jim Nell: Enterprise Representation: A different paradigm for designing process-interoperability standards - ISO TC184/Sc5/WG1 document (1999) Jim Nell: ISO TC184/SC5/WG1 New Work item proposal for Guidelines for manufacturing process interoperability: A suite of standards Peter Bernus: New Work Items for GERAM (April 1999) Richard Weston: Further suggestions (Regarding GERAM) (March 1999) David Shorter: Suggestions (March 1999) Eugene Wong , Louis A. Martin-Vega: Scalable Enterprise Systems (February 1999) Richard Weston: Reconfigurable, Component-Based Systems and the Role of Enterprise Engineering Concepts (February 1999) Richard Weston et al: A Potential Future Activity of the IFAC/IFIP Task Force and ISO TC 184/SC5/WG1 (May 1998)