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Segun Alayande

Architecture Programmes Manager

Heathrow Airport.

Chair ACRIS ASMCoP.

Bob Logan

Director, Rockport Software

EA User Group Conference.

19th May 2015. London.

Airport Community Recommended Information

Services (ACRIS)

Agenda

Context – Airport Ecosystem

ACRIS

Semantic Model

Integrated Model Management Platform

The Airport Service Ecosystemervice

Ecosystem

Airport Service

Ecosystem

Airlines

Air Navigation Services Providers

Government Agencies

Ground Handling Service

Providers

Ground Transportation

Service Providers

Emergency Services Providers

Non-Aviation Services &

Goods Providers

Community Interest Groups

Airports Multiple players

Multiple objectives, capabilities

and perspectives

Common Customer – the

Passenger

Success of the ecosystem

influences success of individual

members

Collaboration in the Airport

Airport services are

delivered by inter-

organisational collaborative

processes

Collaborative processes are

business context for shared

information

Business interactions

include:

Business to Business

Business to Government

Business to Passenger

Airport Aviation

Partner

Shared

Information

Collaboration Objectives

Aviation

Partners

Public Transport

Organisations

•TRANSMODEL

Government

Agencies

•WCO Data Model

Airlines Organisations

• IATA AIDX

• IATA Cargo XML

• IATA Invoice

Air Navigation Organisations

•SESAR AIRM

•SESAR OATA

•SESAR FOIPS

•SESAR AICM

•SESAR WIXM

•SESAR FIXM

Operations data of variable quality is created or updated

within collaborative processes

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Communication Problems

Industry silo

Industry standards organisations have many groups working in silo

Fragmented business knowledge

XML schema not based on a common world view of the Airport business

Semantic ambiguity

Uncontrolled business vocabulary

Poor data standards – XML is not a data standard

Lack of data governance

Data quality issues – no meaningful data

Coordination of collaborative work is difficult

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Airport Community Recommended Information Services

(ACRIS)RIS

The Airports Council International

(ACI) represents the interests of

Airports globally.

The ACI established the ACRIS

work group in 2009 to do the

following:

Establish Airport information

sharing standards

Apply service oriented principles

and Airport domain knowledge to

information services development

Adopt global standards where

appropriate

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Chair (Ch)

Vice Chair (VC)

ChACRIS Working Group (Plenary)

ACRIS Semantic Model

Community of Practice

ASMCoP Ch

ACRIS Technical and

Methodical Subgroup

(TSG)

VC

ACI World Office

Project A

Project B

Project C

…

The ACRIS organization

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ACRIS Work Products

Project Initiation Documents

Recommended Practices

Semantic Model

XML schema and WSDL files

Integrated Model Management Platform

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ACRIS Semantic Model

A collection of knowledge - driven

models organised to support meaningful

communication for business

collaboration

The purpose is:

Establish standards for information

sharing and enable cross-industry

business communication

The model contains:

Collaboration process models

Domain vocabularies

Domain knowledge models

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Public Transport

Organisations

•TRANSMODEL

Government

Agencies

•WCO Data Model

Airlines Organisations

• IATA Airlines Industry Data Model

Air Navigation Organisations

•SESAR AIRM

•SESAR FIXM

ACRIS SM builds on partner industry models

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ACI ACRIS Semantic Model

ACRIS SM Structure

User Comments

“I’m very happy to see that some airports (YYZ, YUL and YYZ) are really interested in the Semantic Model after the presentation you gave at the ACRIS meeting. I’m also excited to see that YYC has started to use Semantic Model and they are satisfied”.

Serge Nguewo - Manager, Facilitation and Airport IT, ACI World.

“I’ve loaded it into Sparx and have been going through it for a couple of hours now.This is amazing work that will help us so much”.

Mike Poulin - Enterprise Architect, IT&T. Calgary Airport, Canada

“I found the model extremely useful in designing architectures in my projects. The model enables integration of disparate systems across business domains and facilitates re-use of information components. It also helps in the control and impact analysis of changes”

Pratip Chaudhuri - Senior Solution Architect, Capgemini

Model Management Principles

Airport business is global therefore;

Collaborate and seek global participation

Leverage industry models ... incorporate partner, industry models at

all levels

Adopt global standards to:

Formally represent and use Airport community knowledge

UN/CEFACT UMM, CCTS and OMG UML

Formally manage changes to model and service configuration

ITIL based change management process

Data element names and formats

ISO 11179, ISO 15000 and UN/CEFACT NDR 3.0

Apply automation appropriately – allow for various levels of

technology maturity

Reusable library & Web Services Development

Processes

Terminology AnalysisKnowledge

Modelling

Data Standards

DevelopmentLibrary Design

Service

Requirements

Analysis

Message ModellingService Schema

DesignWeb Services Design

CCTS based

Library

ASMCoP

Projects

ACRIS SM Change Management Process

ADD/CH

G/DEP/W

DR

Unique UN

Assigned ID

ABIE/

BBIE/

ASBIE/AC

C/BCC/AS

CC/DT/CC

/SC

Dictionary Entry Name

(auto generated)

Definition

Mandatory

Working comments and

instructions

Publication comments

TBG17 Only

START

HERE

Press

Enter

Keep the rows together

Adjust selected rows with Ctrl-a

Enable macro's with

Ctrl-e

Disable macro's with

Ctrl-d

Optional Optinal

ACC Aggregate Core

Component

BCC Basic Core Component

contained within the ACC

ASCC Associated (Aggregate)

Core Component,

associated with the ACC

SharePoint Semantic Model Collaboration Platform

RFC management and document management

Sparxsystems Enterprise Architect

United Nations CEFACT UMM & UPCC3 Profiles

Sparxsystems Schema Builder for UNCEFACT NDR 3.0

MS Word & Excel Spreadsheet Templates

Data items mapping

Tools & Technologies

ACRIS Integrated Model Management Platform

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SharePoint

Collaborative Platform

ACRIS Semantic Model

Repository

Project

Documents

(e.g. Use

Cases,

Vocabularie

s, Function

Models)

Information

(e.g.

Reports,

Documents)

Physical

Components

(e.g. XSD,

WSDL)

Architects

and

Modellers

User

Interface

ACRIS Integrated Model Management Platform

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THANK YOU

ACI – Leading, representing and serving the global airport community

www.aci.aero

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