European initiatives to develop interoperability of enterprise applications—basic concepts, framework and roadmap

Chen, David; Doumeingts, Guy

doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol.2003.09.001

Cited by 129 publications

(83 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Interoperability problems are concerned with different dimensions (data, service, process, business [6], [7]) and have to be addressed at different levels of the enterprise (business, knowledge, ICT systems [8]). Considering these characteristics of interoperability problems, Ralyté et al emphasize that they cannot be isolated to a particular level.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

Haoum

Hahn

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. Modeling the enterprise from different views, at different levels of abstraction, and in different modeling languages yields a variety of models. Oftentimes the models referring to the same subject exist independently of each other and their semantic relations are hard to discover or to analyze. This fact hinders the effective exploitation of enterprise models for the purpose of integration and interoperability. The method proposed in this paper is based on semantic annotations and aims for the externalization and machine readability of the model contained information. This assures the accessibility for further automatic processing and facilitates the discovery and analysis of inter-model relations.Keywords: enterprise modeling, semantic annotation, model reconciliation, inter-model relations. IntroductionIn today's economy enterprises operate in a fast changing environment and their competitiveness heavily depends on their ability to quickly respond to these changes in an adequate manner. In this context, decision makers use enterprise models as a means to master this complexity. Depending on the focus in a particular case, models allow to take a certain view and abstraction on the enterprise and concentrate on the goals, processes, structures, competencies, etc. Further, particular models can be broken down into more detailed sub-models. Overall, this yields a "collection of more or less interrelated, special-purpose models" [1]. In contrast to modeling activities known from the field of operations research, business process (re-)engineering, organizational design etc., enterprise modeling accounts for the "need to focus on enterprises as a whole, or at least on a larger set of interacting components, within organization -taking a more 'total systems' approach" [2]. According to [3] the main motivations for enterprise modeling are:• The possibility to analyze the enterprise, in order to gain a better understanding and to enable the management of system complexity.• Explicit documentation of enterprise knowledge (know-what, know-how, and know-why).

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

Haoum

Hahn

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For instance Chen and Doumeingts [4] claim that steps being made towards multidisciplinary interoperability research will lead to a substantial reorganisation of the research activities and cooperation in Europe. However achieving interoperability among different actors and their Information Systems is a non-trivial issue especially when value constellations encompass national boundaries and are subject to continuous reconfigurations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Design Theory for e-Service Environments: The Interoperability Challenge

Spagnoletti

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. The delivery of e-services across organizational boundaries poses a number of issues in terms of design of inter-organizational systems that support service delivery effectively. In this context interoperability emerges as a mandatory requirement for the design of Information Technology (IT) platforms supporting collaborative e-service environments. In this paper we address this issue by presenting a design theory for IT platforms supporting e-services based on both a deep understanding of the interoperability concept and a design research approach. Through the analysis of a cooperation framework developed in the context of an EU funded project, we instantiate the theory by providing the concrete example of a solution addressing this design problem.

show abstract

“…2 This standard outlines an Application Integration Framework (AIF) -a set of elements and rules for describing application interoperability profiles, which will enable a common environment for integrating applications and sharing life cycle information in a given application domain. The generic elements and rules are providing for developing templates for Application Interoperability Profiles (AIPs), and their component profiles -process profiles, resource profiles, and information exchange profiles.…”

Section: Iso 15745 -Industrial Automation Systems and Integrationopenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The heterogeneity of ICT implementation is such that there exist different solution spaces depending on the combination of existing systems and in many cases such solutions are not transferable to other cases. According to Chen and Doumeingts [2], who reported on the results of a European initiative on a development for road maps to interoperability, there exist several levels of interoperability. They identified interaction between two systems can at least take place at the three levels: data, resource and business process and interoperability may therefore be achieved on multiple levels: inter-enterprise coordination, business process integration, semantic application integration, syntactic application integration, and physical integration.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ISO Standards for Interoperability: a Comparison

Kosanke¹

Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. The lack of interoperability between ICT systems is becoming more and more a bottleneck in the collaboration and co-operation of enterprises. Cooperating parties have to exchange business information and have to have the same understanding of the meaning of the exchanged information and to trust both the communication itself and the validity of its contents. The paper reviews two ISO standards, which are aiming on the interoperability issue comparing the different aspects of these standards and introduces a new work item in standardisation, which expects support from two current European initiatives on interoperability and others. The paper is intended to guide further standard developments by identifying current solutions and their relation with one another.

show abstract

European initiatives to develop interoperability of enterprise applications—basic concepts, framework and roadmap

Cited by 129 publications

References 1 publication

Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

A Design Theory for e-Service Environments: The Interoperability Challenge

ISO Standards for Interoperability: a Comparison

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About