OPEN INNOVATION BY COOPERATION

The ADOxx.org Team is continuously contributing to numerous well-renowned and high-impact research projects and is amongst the most innovative in the European Union. Research topics such as Factory of the Future/Industry 4.0, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Technology Enhanced Learning, Knowledge Management and Social Innovation are worked out as model-based approaches and grouped according to three research domains.

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1.000 Developers
15 Universities & Research Groups

What is ADOxx.org?

ADOxx.org is a world-wide open innovation community realizing novel model-based approaches in all areas, especially on Factory of Future / Industry 4.0; Cloud Computing and Big Data. It is an academic and eduction network consisting of Universities, Research Centres, individual developers or researchers, as well as companies in the context of national, bi-lateral or European Research initiatives. Selected projects developing novel model-based approaches are listed below:

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"ENGINEERING IS DESIGNED REALITY"

Analysis, design and optimisation of value-adding business processes allows for the implementation of efficient processes, structures and systems. We are developing and evaluating new application areas and innovative methods to perfectly support specific scenarios and industries.

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Factories of the Future, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things

Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing

CaxMan is concerned with design-driven additive manufactory, by enabling Cloud-based workflows between computer aided manufactory services. BOC develops a modelling environment for business modelling in such flexible Virtual Enterprises for digital Factories.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.caxman.eu

Collaborative Manufacturing Network for Competitive Advantage

ComVantage deals with smart machine maintenance, where maintenance relevant data are organized in a structured and interoperable way using the linked data approach. BOC developed a modelling environment that enables the analysis of mobile maintenance processes.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.comvantage.eu

Business Innovation and Virtual Enterprise Environment

BIVEE deals with the management of innovation within factories, aiming that distributed production can be managed in such Virtual Enterprises. BOC developed a modelling environment to assist the creating, operation and monitoring of Virtual Enterprises for digital Factories.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.bivee.eu

Energy Efficiency in the Supply Chain through Collaboration, Advanced Decision Support and Automatic Sensing

e-Save is concerned with the energy efficient logistic and supply chains. The reduction of energy needed for transport is optimized by simulating logistic chains. BOC developed a modelling environment that enabled the use of geo-location data, for modelling and simulation.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.e-save.eu

aGent Oriented Zero Defect Multi-stage mANufacturing

GO0DMAN is based on the idea to realize and deploy a Zero Defect Manufacturing framework for multi-stage production lines. BOC is responsible for the development of a knowledge and data management environment to support stakeholders in the production industry to elevate data to meaningful information and provide solution proposals.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://go0dman-project.eu/

Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration

GDISRUPT aims to spearhead the transition to the next-generation manufacturing by facilitating the vision of a "Smart Factory".
The new era of manufacturing requires flexible factories that can be quickly reprogrammed to provide faster time-to-market responding to global consumer demand, address mass-customization needs and bring life to innovative products. BOC is responsible in the project to recognize and derive an environment for the design and evaluation of novel and coherent business models, enabled by a graphical modelling tool and related functionalities.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.disrupt-project.eu/home

Co-Creation, eGovernment and Interoperability

Organizational Behavior Improvement for Energy Efficient
Administrative Public Offices

OrbEEt analyses the usage of buildings with respect to their energy consumption. BOC developed a business process modelling environment enabling the simulation of the usage of the buildings to indicate the energy consumption.

Project Facts/Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://orbeet.eu

Occupant Aware, Intelligent and Adaptive Enterprises

Adapt4EE analyses the usage of buildings in a similar way like OrBEEt, but focuses on the influencing the design phase of building construction, whereas OrbEEt focuses on the usage of existing buildings.

Project Facts/Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.adapt4ee.eu

Participatory Immigration Policy Making
and Harmonization based on Collaborative Web2.0 Technologies

Immigration Policy 2.0 developed social media tools and platforms to ease the administrative processes that are relevant for legal residents. BOC developed special modelling tools, where processes are represented in a simplified way, suitable for citizens with low ICT background.

Project Facts and Figures: WIKI
Web: http://www.immigrationpolicy2.eu

Local Development Cooperation Actions Enabled by Semantic Technologies

LD-CAST realized smart business process portals for Chamber of Commerce’s that support the cross-national business collaboration for founding companies in Eastern European Countries. BOC developed knowledge-based process modelling tools for public administration.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://www.ldcastproject.com

Process Oriented eGovernment

FIT realized smart business process modelling for public administrations in a similar way like LD-CAST, but not focusing on Chamber of Commerce’s but on Ministries and Municipalities.

Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
Web: http://edict.khlim.be/fit

Cloud Computing and Smart Software Engineering

	Business and IT Cloud Alignment using a Smart Socket CloudSocket develops the new Cloud paradigm of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) assisting in business and IT Cloud alignment. BOC develops business process modelling tools that analyze business processes according their Cloud Readiness level and support their transformation into workflows in the Cloud. Project Facts/Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.cloudsocket.eu
	MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds MODAClouds developed a common configuration layer for any Platform as a Service (PaaS). BOC tested, adapted and improved the project results with the PaaS infrastructure of ADONIS® Cloud. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.modaclouds.eu
	Marrying Ontologies and Software Technologies MOST combined conceptual and semantic modelling for Software Engineering by merging UML and ontologies. BOC realized a modelling tool to semantically enrich concept models such as UML. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS
	Business Objective Driven Reliable and Intelligent Grids for Real Businesses BREIN introduced an agent-based framework to optimize grid computing. A smart middleware using distributed intelligent information systems was used to coordinate computer resources in an optimized way. BOC provided a business process modelling environment to support the business and IT alignment from high level business processes to low level technical resources. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.eu-brein.com
	Access to Knowledge Through a Grid Mobile Environment AKOGRIMO introduced knowledge-based mobile grid computing, where ICT resources for grid computing are coordinated in a distributed mobile network. BOC introduced a knowledge-based business process modelling environment to support business and IT alignment from high level processes to mobile network related settings. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.akogrimo.org

"EDUCATION IS CAPITALIZED FUTURE"

The evolution of your business strongly relies on organisational development. Personal skills enhancement is used for dealing with the increasing complexity of day-to-day work. We are intensively working not only to represent learning content transparently and in a clear form, but also to make the training process visible.

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Competence Management and Technology Enhanced Training

	ITSM for SMEs of the Danube Region ITSM4SME used models about IT Architecture and Management for teaching ITSM especially for SMEs in the Eastern European countries. BOC provided a modelling tool for IT Architecture and Management design, which was used to create the training content and used for teaching ITSM. Project Facts and Figures: ADAM Web: http://www.itsm4sme.eu
	Model-Based Social Learning for Public Administrations LearnPAd introduces process oriented learning for public administration by using extended Wiki platforms and combining them for collaborative business process modelling. BOC developed a collaborative business process modelling tool that interacts with collaboration platforms. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.learnpad.eu
	Next Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life NEXT TELL developed the Evidence Centered Activity and Assessment Design (ECAAD) Method to plan and manage teaching processes. BOC developed the ECAAD modelling tool enabling to model, manage, exchange and export teaching and assessment processes into execute them in learning platforms. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.next-tell.eu
	Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks MATURE elaborated on process-oriented knowledge management developing a knowledge-based application middleware that supporting tools for different maturity levels of knowledge. BOC developed a process-oriented knowledge management tool and corresponding interfaces to manage the knowledge on different maturity levels. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.mature-ip.eu
	PBL3.0 PBL3.0 extends process oriented learning by analyzing Problem Based Learning approaches and comparing their evaluation results. BOC provides a modelling environment for business process oriented training assessment. Project Facts and Figures: / Web: http://www.pbl3-project.eu

"KNOWLEDGE IS HUMANIZED INFORMATION"

Your people carry the knowledge of your entire organisation and hence strongly influence its prosperous development. This knowledge needs to be leveraged for new initiatives and evolution of your business. We are developing and testing innovative techniques for approaching complex issues and are providing management via powerful analysis methods.

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Big Data, Security and Intelligent Knowledge Management

	Business and IT Alignment using a Model-Based Plug-in Framework plugIT introduced the Next Generation Modelling Framework consisting of micro-modelling services that are composed using smart technology to optimally support the users’ needs in modelling. BOC developed a service-oriented framework for modelling supporting in this case hybrid modelling for business and IT alignment. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.plug-it-project.eu
	A Semantic Based Knowledge Flow System for European Home Textile Industry AsIsKnown developed knowledge management tool to support the supply chain for home textile in Europe between production and end user sales. BOC developed a process-oriented knowledge management framework that enabled the knowledge-based management of this supply chain. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.asisknown.org
	Intelligent Knowledge Platform for Personal Health Monitoring Services eHealthMonitor explored the idea of smart and dynamic knowledge spaces for personal health monitoring. Data have been collected from patients have been enriched with personalized knowledge, in order to access it with smart agents for better patient support. BOC developed modelling tools to create an index of the knowledge base and hence enable its usage and management. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.ehealthmonitor.eu
	Foresight Security Scenarios Mapping: Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles FOCUS developed a security research roadmap for Europe by applying foresight techniques on potential hazards and threats and deriving necessary know-how to handle those potential future situations. BOC accompanied these foresight techniques and risk assessments with process-oriented knowledge management to enable continue assessments and adaptations of the security research roadmap and to preserve the project’s expert know how. Project Facts and Figures: CORDIS Web: http://www.focusproject.eu