Interoperability principles for management systems of organizations

The escalating complexity and heterogeneity of products, business and management processes, organizations, and enterprises are driving different developers to create increasingly diverse computer-aided management systems. For effective collaboration, these systems require interoperability (enabling interaction, information exchange, and the effective use of shared information) at multiple levels, including technical, syntactic, and semantic levels. This paper outlines principles and standards for semantic interoperability in enterprise resource management systems. Key contributions include six developed principles based on ISO, IEC, and GOST R standards, which complement eight general principles of interoperability from NIF, SCOPE, and GOST R 70569-2022. This set of principles simplifies the functional modeling for resource management systems. To illustrate, the conceptual model of the domain «HR management of an organization» was developed and demonstrated. Practical significance: the represented set of principles forms a foundation for the interoperability concepts and interoperability profiles at the semantic level for interoperable organizational management systems. It contributes to expediting functional models' design, to improving patterns for computer-aided design of organizational management systems, and finally to easing SMART standards implementation for business processes of enterprises.

Keywords: interoperability, semantic level of interoperability, enterprise management systems, systems engineering, HR management systems.

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