A Platform to Support Collaboration and Agility in Logistics Web

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Since time immemorial, collaboration between entities (people, companies, states, etc.) is our world strength. However, this collaboration efficiency is always limited by our technology development speed. One of the current challenges is the difficulty to make interoperate different entities having their communication based on new information technologies (mainly because of the great diversity of these new information technologies). So, our research ambition is to define main concepts and an architecture for Mediation Information Systems (MIS). Firstly, MIS ables to make interoperate a multitude of different entities in order to allow them to reach common goals. Secondly, MIS being agile (i.e., being able to detect unexpected events and adapt in response). Finally, MIS implementing these two previous characteristics in an as automated way as possible (i.e., using as less human actions as possible). In this paper, we summarize the MISE (Mediation Information System Engineering) approach aiming to reach our MIS ambition, and we introduce the third iteration of this project. Finally, we illustrate our results using a logistic domain use case: French drug deliveries to pharmacies.