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International audience ; Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to drive progress, the need to consider a privacy adversary implies that traditional approaches to evaluation must be adapted to the assessment of privacy and privacy preservation solutions. This paper presents the first step in this direction: metrics. We introduce the zero evidence biometric recognition assessment (ZEBRA) framework and propose two new privacy metrics. They measure the average level of privacy preservation afforded by a given safeguard for a population and the worst-case privacy disclosure for an individual. The paper demonstrates their application to privacy preservation assessment within the scope of the VoicePrivacy challenge. While the ZEBRA framework is designed with speech applications in mind, it is a candidate for incorporation into biometric information protection standards and is readily extendable to the study of privacy in applications even beyond speech and biometrics.

International audience ; Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to drive progress, the need to consider a privacy adversary implies that traditional approaches to evaluation must be adapted to the assessment of privacy and privacy preservation solutions. This paper presents the first step in this direction: metrics. We introduce the zero evidence biometric recognition assessment (ZEBRA) framework and propose two new privacy metrics. They measure the average level of privacy preservation afforded by a given safeguard for a population and the worst-case privacy disclosure for an individual. The paper demonstrates their application to privacy preservation assessment within the scope of the VoicePrivacy challenge. While the ZEBRA framework is designed with speech applications in mind, it is a candidate for incorporation into biometric information protection standards and is readily extendable to the study of privacy in applications even beyond speech and biometrics.

International audience ; Modern healthcare is confronted with serious issues that are threatening its viability and sustainability. Increasing costs and complexity, global population ageing and pandemics are major culprits of the healthcare quandary. In this context, effective interoperability of the participants in the healthcare effort becomes paramount. However, this is also a major challenge as unfortunately, healthcare institutions typically feature strong hierarchy and heterogeneity. As the pressure on healthcare resources and management cost is constantly increasing, governments can no longer rely on outdated 'silo' paradigms for managing population wellbeing. New cooperative and integrated models and procedures taking into account all essential cooperation aspects, elements, participants and their life cycle are necessary to drive cooperative healthcare sustainability. Based on previous research and applications, this paper argues that the necessary artefacts can be built using a life cycle-based, holistic paradigm enabled by advances in Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture and Collaborative Networks research and practice. The proposed modelling approach aims to provide a solid base for sustainable solutions to long and short-term challenges to population health and well-being

International audience ; Modern healthcare is confronted with serious issues that are threatening its viability and sustainability. Increasing costs and complexity, global population ageing and pandemics are major culprits of the healthcare quandary. In this context, effective interoperability of the participants in the healthcare effort becomes paramount. However, this is also a major challenge as unfortunately, healthcare institutions typically feature strong hierarchy and heterogeneity. As the pressure on healthcare resources and management cost is constantly increasing, governments can no longer rely on outdated 'silo' paradigms for managing population wellbeing. New cooperative and integrated models and procedures taking into account all essential cooperation aspects, elements, participants and their life cycle are necessary to drive cooperative healthcare sustainability. Based on previous research and applications, this paper argues that the necessary artefacts can be built using a life cycle-based, holistic paradigm enabled by advances in Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture and Collaborative Networks research and practice. The proposed modelling approach aims to provide a solid base for sustainable solutions to long and short-term challenges to population health and well-being

International audience ; The French legislation regulates the functioning of factories that may be dangerous towards their environment. This legislation imposes the creation of an Internal Operation Plan (P.O.I.) on the plant managers. Those plans describe the proceedings that have to be implemented in case of an accident. Within a framework involving our laboratory and a gas company we have designed a software to create, maintain and execute P.O.I.s . In this paper, in addition to the software functionalities, we present our design method, as well as the used tools. Both are related to the problems of computing the design process of a P.O.I. and its exploitation in crisis situations. The approach is structured around the UML and the MATLAB tool for both physical simulation and 3D environment management. The final software is developed in Java and uses the API Java-VRML EAI. This solution is currently in use at our partner's plants and it has completely revolutionized their way of managing P.O.I.s.

International audience ; The French legislation regulates the functioning of factories that may be dangerous towards their environment. This legislation imposes the creation of an Internal Operation Plan (P.O.I.) on the plant managers. Those plans describe the proceedings that have to be implemented in case of an accident. Within a framework involving our laboratory and a gas company we have designed a software to create, maintain and execute P.O.I.s . In this paper, in addition to the software functionalities, we present our design method, as well as the used tools. Both are related to the problems of computing the design process of a P.O.I. and its exploitation in crisis situations. The approach is structured around the UML and the MATLAB tool for both physical simulation and 3D environment management. The final software is developed in Java and uses the API Java-VRML EAI. This solution is currently in use at our partner's plants and it has completely revolutionized their way of managing P.O.I.s.

International audience ; The French legislation regulates the functioning of factories that may be dangerous towards their environment. This legislation imposes the creation of an Internal Operation Plan (P.O.I.) on the plant managers. Those plans describe the proceedings that have to be implemented in case of an accident. Within a framework involving our laboratory and a gas company we have designed a software to create, maintain and execute P.O.I.s . In this paper, in addition to the software functionalities, we present our design method, as well as the used tools. Both are related to the problems of computing the design process of a P.O.I. and its exploitation in crisis situations. The approach is structured around the UML and the MATLAB tool for both physical simulation and 3D environment management. The final software is developed in Java and uses the API Java-VRML EAI. This solution is currently in use at our partner's plants and it has completely revolutionized their way of managing P.O.I.s.

International audience ; Manufacturing organizations are now facing unexpected challenges due to scarcity of the natural resources and consequent governmental rules that urge to adopt new organisational or even manufacturing strategies. Adopting the sustainability paradigm at the present seems to be the only viable strategy to respond appropriately to this changed market conditions and customer's demand. As the pressure for changing the traditional manufacturing approach to reach a sustainable operating condition increases, the urge for assessing their sustainability performance has been reinforced accordingly. Various methods have been accomplished so far, trying to find a way to assess the sustainability state of companies, to select among sustainable solutions, to define and to solve practical problems and to identify potential sustainable solutions. Due to this abundance, the present study is cantered by a systematic literature review based on sustainable manufacturing and sustainability assessment to explore questions on sustainable manufacturing: 'How can sustainable manufacturing be achieved?' and 'How can sustainable manufacturing be assessed?' The study led to stipulation of the true essence of sustainable manufacturing and sustainability assessment. It also brought new hints on the sustainability assessment of manufacturing recognising true gaps needed to be filled. Furthermore, to investigate the regularity of the methods and tools of sustainability assessment, a Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) was adopted. At the end, a new holistic framework for sustainability assessment in a manufacturing organization is proposed.

International audience ; Manufacturing organizations are now facing unexpected challenges due to scarcity of the natural resources and consequent governmental rules that urge to adopt new organisational or even manufacturing strategies. Adopting the sustainability paradigm at the present seems to be the only viable strategy to respond appropriately to this changed market conditions and customer's demand. As the pressure for changing the traditional manufacturing approach to reach a sustainable operating condition increases, the urge for assessing their sustainability performance has been reinforced accordingly. Various methods have been accomplished so far, trying to find a way to assess the sustainability state of companies, to select among sustainable solutions, to define and to solve practical problems and to identify potential sustainable solutions. Due to this abundance, the present study is cantered by a systematic literature review based on sustainable manufacturing and sustainability assessment to explore questions on sustainable manufacturing: 'How can sustainable manufacturing be achieved?' and 'How can sustainable manufacturing be assessed?' The study led to stipulation of the true essence of sustainable manufacturing and sustainability assessment. It also brought new hints on the sustainability assessment of manufacturing recognising true gaps needed to be filled. Furthermore, to investigate the regularity of the methods and tools of sustainability assessment, a Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) was adopted. At the end, a new holistic framework for sustainability assessment in a manufacturing organization is proposed.

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8842, pp. 329-338, 2014. ; International audience ; The government interoperability frameworks (GIFs) are mainly cen-tered on technical perspective neglecting important actual issues in Public Ad-ministration (PA) as the performance of their services and process as well its strategic, legal and politic positioning. This wide spectrum of organizational knowledge demands specific interoperability assessment (IA) methods based on a preliminary step of identifying and organizing adequate attributes that allow a wider view on the PA domain regarding interoperability requirements. This pa-per proposes a knowledge discovering and extraction method from PA and IA literature, presenting a rationality through a conceptual model in order to identi-fy and organize attributes that will be used as input for an IA model. A prelimi-nary set of attributes is presented, as well as a future approach of how to deal with these attributes using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) in order to evalu-ate them with experts through a specific structure suited to the IA process itself.

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8842, pp. 329-338, 2014. ; International audience ; The government interoperability frameworks (GIFs) are mainly cen-tered on technical perspective neglecting important actual issues in Public Ad-ministration (PA) as the performance of their services and process as well its strategic, legal and politic positioning. This wide spectrum of organizational knowledge demands specific interoperability assessment (IA) methods based on a preliminary step of identifying and organizing adequate attributes that allow a wider view on the PA domain regarding interoperability requirements. This pa-per proposes a knowledge discovering and extraction method from PA and IA literature, presenting a rationality through a conceptual model in order to identi-fy and organize attributes that will be used as input for an IA model. A prelimi-nary set of attributes is presented, as well as a future approach of how to deal with these attributes using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) in order to evalu-ate them with experts through a specific structure suited to the IA process itself.

Published in Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics, IN4PL, Oct 2021, Valletta, Malta, ISBN 978-989-758-535-7, SciTePress 20211-978-989-758-535-7 ; International audience ; In today's manufacturing companies need to be able to join the Industry 4.0 paradigm and technologies. Often companies, especially SMEs are not digitally ready. Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) are raising for overcoming this problem. DIHs support companies providing services and digital technologies. However, the critical challenge, for the development of the DIHs ecosystem is to assess the ability of the DIHs and partners to interoperate together. DIH4CPS (Fostering DIHs for Embedding Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems of European SMEs) is an Innovation Action (IA) receiving funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme. DIH4CPS aims to create an embracing, interdisciplinary network of DIHs, and solutions providers, focused on cyber-physical and embedded systems, interweaving knowledge and technologies from different domains, and connecting regional clusters with the Pan-European expert pool of DIHs. The paper presents the concepts, the ontology, and the prototype developed for DIH4CPS project with the aim of assessing the Interoperability maturity of the DIHs and partner's network.

Published in Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics, IN4PL, Oct 2021, Valletta, Malta, ISBN 978-989-758-535-7, SciTePress 20211-978-989-758-535-7 ; International audience ; In today's manufacturing companies need to be able to join the Industry 4.0 paradigm and technologies. Often companies, especially SMEs are not digitally ready. Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) are raising for overcoming this problem. DIHs support companies providing services and digital technologies. However, the critical challenge, for the development of the DIHs ecosystem is to assess the ability of the DIHs and partners to interoperate together. DIH4CPS (Fostering DIHs for Embedding Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems of European SMEs) is an Innovation Action (IA) receiving funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme. DIH4CPS aims to create an embracing, interdisciplinary network of DIHs, and solutions providers, focused on cyber-physical and embedded systems, interweaving knowledge and technologies from different domains, and connecting regional clusters with the Pan-European expert pool of DIHs. The paper presents the concepts, the ontology, and the prototype developed for DIH4CPS project with the aim of assessing the Interoperability maturity of the DIHs and partner's network.