Establishment of Collaborative Networks – A Model-Driven Engineering Approach Based on Thermodynamics [chapter]

Frederick Benaben, Vincent Gerbaud, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Anastasia Roth
2017 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of some Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author's version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/19562 Official URL : https://doi.Abstract. The setup of an efficient collaborative situation between organizations can be considered according to four main complementary dimensions: the context (geographical, social, economical environment), the partners (the actors, their
more » ... ities, their resources and their relationships), the objectives (the collaborative goals of the network, the risks to be avoided, etc.) and finally the behaviour (the collaborative processes to be implemented by the partners to achieve the objectives considering the context). Some research works try to infer the behaviour based on the three other issues assumed to be known, by using different approaches such as model-driven engineering (MDE), optimization, heuristics, planning, etc. MDE helps studying the opportunity of inferring the objectives part from the context and partners dimensions in order to feed the behaviour issue. We use a nonequilibrium thermodynamics analogy where partners and context attributes and methods are mapped to thermodynamic state variables of an organisation seen as an open system in the frame of dissipative structure thermodynamics. We apply it specifically to enterprises and discuss briefly the analogy of behaviour as an irreversible trajectory aiming to maintain the enterprise activity alive.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_56 fatcat:ieydx5dt75hudffrvrjateoe5m