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Current challenges and recent advances on the path towards continuous biomanufacturing

June 21, 2023
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Milos Drobnjakovic, Nenad Ivezic, Vijay Srinivasan, Roger Hart
Continuous biopharmaceutical manufacturing is currently a field of intense research due to its potential to make the entire production process more optimal for the modern, ever-evolving biopharmaceutical market. Compared to traditional batch manufacturing

Knowledge representation for hierarchical and interconnected business contexts

February 19, 2023
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Hakju Oh, Elena Jelisic, Scott Nieman, Anicic Nenad, Marjanovic Zoran
Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the tech-nique used to represent contextual knowledge. This paper proposes a logic-based business context modeling

Fronesis: Digital Forensics-Based Early Detection of Ongoing Cyber-Attacks

December 30, 2022
Author(s)
Athanasios Dimitriadis, Efstratios Lontzetidis, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Dimitris Gritzalis, Ioannis Mavridis
Traditional attack detection approaches utilize predefined databases of known signatures about already-seen tools and malicious activities observed in past cyber-attacks to detect future attacks. More sophisticated approaches apply machine learning to

Advancing Data Exchange Standards for Interoperable Enterprise Networks

March 24, 2022
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Elena Jelisic, Marija Jankovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Dionysios Kehagias, Zoran Marjanovic
Recently, our interoperability research strategy delivered significant results by (1) adopting the ISO-approved Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) meta-model as a basis for a new data exchange modeling framework and (2) developing Score, which

Business context-based quality measures for data exchange standards usage specification

March 24, 2022
Author(s)
Elena Jelisic, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Zoran Marjanovic
Standards-based methods for data exchange are key for Business-to-Business (B2B) integration. However, in the case of Small Businesses, there are significant barriers to utilizing these methods. One of the reasons is that the standards are large, making

Business context-based approach for Digital Twin services integration

March 14, 2022
Author(s)
Elena Jelisic, Marija Jankovic, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Dionysios Kehagias, Zoran Marjanovic
Digital Twins (DTs) are among the most popular and quickly evolving technologies, particularly within Industry 4.0. The rapid expansion of a new generation of information technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and

A Data Integration Framework for Additive Manufacturing Big Data Management

December 7, 2021
Author(s)
Milica Perisic, Dimitrije Milenkovic, Yan Lu, Albert T. Jones, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou
Large amounts of data are generated throughout the entire, AM, part-development lifecycle. Data are generated by various functions within process monitoring, material characterization, equipment status, and part qualification. Hence, data integration and

A Novel Data Standards Platform using ISO Core Components Technical Specification

August 1, 2021
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Hakju Oh, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
It is generally observed in inter-organizational communication that present-day data exchange standards are too costly and too complex to develop and use. These problems in data exchange are felt keenly by manufacturing industry with its vast supply chains

Contextualized Filtering for Shared Cyber Threat Information

July 18, 2021
Author(s)
Athanasios Dimitriadis, Christos Prassas, Jose L. Flores, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Dimitris Gritzalis, Ioannis Mavridis
Cyber threat information sharing is an imperative process towards achieving collaborative security, but it poses several challenges. One crucial challenge is the plethora of shared threat information. Therefore, there is a need to advance filtering of such

ARES: Automated Risk Estimation in Smart Sensor Environments

August 17, 2020
Author(s)
Athanasios Dimitriadis, Jose L. Flores, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Ioannis Mavridis
Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are addressed by next-generation approaches for enterprise systems integration such as model-based

D4I-Digital forensics framework for reviewing and investigating cyber attacks

December 26, 2019
Author(s)
Athanasios Dimitriadis, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Ioannis Mavridis
Many companies have cited lack of cyber-security as the main barrier to Industrie 4.0 or digitalization. Security functions include protection, detection, response and investigation. Cyber-attack investigation is important as it can support the mitigation

A Graph-based Automatic Services Composition based on Cost Estimation Heuristic

October 31, 2019
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yunsu Lee, Minchul Lee, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic
Currently, software and hardware are being virtualized and offered as services on the internet. Companies have an opportunity to improve their workflow by composing these services that best suitable their requirements from both quality and cost objectives

A Business Context-Based Approach for Message Standards Use – A Validation Study

September 8, 2019
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Nenad Anicic, Zoran Marjanovic
While necessary for a successful integration of enterprise services and applications, use of message standards is a complex activity fraught with issues. An innovative approach and a software tool that make use of business context have been developed to

A Two-Tiered Database Design Based on Core Components Methodology

September 8, 2019
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Marija Jankovic, Zoran Marjanovic
The number of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and cloud service implemen-tations are growing rapidly. In the resulting, emerging, cross-industry, coop-erative environments, a common understanding of message standards will be necessary to enable better

2018 NIST/OAGi Workshop: Enabling Composable Service-Oriented Manufacturing Systems

April 22, 2019
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Michael P. Brundage, Yan Lu, Evan K. Wallace, Albert W. Jones
This report summarizes the results from the 2018 NIST/OAGi Workshop: Enabling Composable Service-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, MD, on April 23-24, 2018. This was

Business Process Context for Message Standards

September 7, 2017
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic, Marija Jankovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Garret Minakawa
Despite unrelenting increase in complexity of message standards for enterprise systems integrations, there are no effective means to address this complexity issue in practice. We describe an effort to address the issue by advancing message standards

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD MANUFACTURING

June 4, 2017
Author(s)
Miroslav Ljubicic, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Nenad Anicic, Zoran Marjanovic
Business processes will play an important role in the realization of sustainable service-oriented manufacturing (SOM). In this paper, we propose a business process catalog to support that role. Such a catalog can facilitate both the life-cycle management

NIST/OAGi Workshop: Drilling down on Smart Manufacturing – Enabling Composable Apps

April 19, 2017
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Hyunbo Cho, Yan Lu, Jim Davis, Thorsten Wuest, Farhad Ameri, William Z. Bernstein
This report summarizes the results from the OAGi/NIST workshop Drilling down on Smart Manufacturing -- Enabling Composable Apps, which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, MD, on April 18-19, 2016. The

Towards a Road-Mapping Ontology for Open Innovation in Smart Manufacturing

October 30, 2016
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic
In nascent areas, such as Smart Manufacturing, new collaborative research and development programs (R&D) are frequently formed with the goal to ignite the innovation lifecycle. Yet, clearly formulating common goals and enabling shared understanding of key