Update on CAPE-OPEN standards and CO-LaN activities (Keynote)
Systematic methods and tools for managing the complexity
Software Architecture, Standards & Interfaces (T4-7)
Keywords: CAPE-OPEN, CAPE, interoperability, standards
Keynote lecture – CAPE-OPEN session
CAPE-OPEN standards have been first beta-released in mid-1999, then officially released (version 1.0) in March 2002. The CAPE-OPEN standards are increasingly implemented in process modelling environments and process modeling components. This lecture will review the market penetration of the CAPE-OPEN standards: the most prominent software vendors in the process simulation domain have adopted CAPE-OPEN as well as many niche vendors or academic suppliers of process simulation code.
The CAPE-OPEN standards are maintained and supported by the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN), a not-for-profit organization strong of many members (around sixty) with half of them being software vendors. The growth of this organization reflects the continuous progress made in the adoption of the CAPE-OPEN standards for enabling interoperability between process modelling environments and process modelling components.
While the initial CAPE-OPEN standards were meant to cover already most of the process simulation domain, CO-LaN has taken recently a number of steps to extend the existing standards and these steps will be reviewed and discussed. The advances made in the thermodynamic domain with the release of version 1.1 of the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification as well as the work done in the domain of Refining unit operations or dynamic simulation will be highlighted.
For the future, additional areas where the CAPE-OPEN standards can be extended to serve the end-user community and the software vendor community: hydrodynamic modelling, solid thermodynamic physical properties for instance. These possibilities will be discussed.
Presented Monday 17, 15:00 to 15:40, in session Software Architecture, Standards & Interfaces (T4-7) Keynote.
