Enterprise Interoperability : New Challenges and Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007)

Part I: Service-oriented Interoperability Approaches.- Development of Dynamic Composed Services Based on the Context.- Semantics of Interoperable and Outsourced Information Systems.- A Platform Independent Model for Service Oriented Architectures.- Part II: Enterprise Interoperability Architecture.- Formalizing Analysis of Enterprise Architecture.- To Adapt or Not to Adapt, That is the Question: Towards a Framework to Analyze Scenarios for Aligning Legacy and Business Components.- Value object analysis and the transformation from value model to process model.- Activity Diagram Based Process Family Architectures for Enterprise Application Families.- Part III: Model-driven Approaches to Interoperability.- An Integrated Model-driven Service Engineering Environment.- UML for Enterprise Modelling: basis for a Model-Driven Approach.- Solving Problems in the Parameterisation of ERPs Using a Model-Driven Approach.- A Decentralized Broker Architecture for Collaborative Business Process Modelling and Enactment.- Part IV: Methods, Models, Languages and Tools for Enterprise Interoperability.- Discretization of Continuous Features by Using a Kernel.- Designing and Implementing Cross-Organizational Business Processes - Description and Application of a Modelling Framework.- Quality Criteria for Enterprise Modelling in the Context of Networked Enterprises.- The UEML Approach to Modelling Construct Description.- A Roadmap for UEML.- An Interoperable Platform to Implement Collaborative Forecasting in OEM Supply Chains.- Service- and Process-Matching - An Approach towards Interoperability Design and Implementation of Business Networks.- Achieving Enterprise Model Interoperability Applying a Common Enterprise Metamodel.- Interoperability Characterization Using Enterprise Modeling and Graph Representation.- Part V: Semantics and Ontology-based Interoperability.- Semantic Service Modeling: EnablingSystem Interoperability.- Supporting Scientific Collaboration in a Network of Excellence Through a Semantically Indexed Knowledge Map.- Mapping XML Schema to OWL.- Extending OWL-S to Solve Enterprise Application Integration Issues.- Practical Issues in Ontology Modeling: The Case of Defence Conceptual Modeling Framework-Ontology.- Digital Resource Discovery: Semantic Annotation and Matching Techniques.- A Model for Assessing the Impact of Enterprise Application Interoperability in the Typical European Enterprise.- Ontology-based Transformations for Achieving Interoperability in AmI.- Part VI: Interoperability of Decision Models.- A Decentralized Approach for Inter-Enterprise Business Process Collaboration.- Towards a Conceptualization of Decisional Interoperability.- Interoperability and Synergism of Decision, Information and Flexibility to Improve Performances of Enterprise Systems: KM Implications.- Part VII: Inter-organisational Interoperability.- Service Typing in Collaborative Systems.- Decentralized Metadata Development for Open B2B Electronic Business.- The TrustCoM Approach to Enforcing Agreements between Interoperating Enterprises.- Organisational Inter-operability: Towards Enterprise Urbanism.- An Integrated Approach for Organizational Data Interoperability.- Managing the Lifecycle of Cross-organizational Collaborative Business Processes.- Interoperability through Model-based Generation: The Case of the Collaborative Information System (CIS).- A Natural Basis for Interoperability.- Designing a Modular Infrastructure for Exploratory Integration of Interoperability Approaches.- Part VIII: Interoperability of Manufacturing Enterprise Applications.- Supply Chain Management System and Interoperability through EAI Platform.- Enhancing Interoperability of Manufacturing Software Units Using Capability Profiling.- Towards a Product Oriented Process Modelling for Enteriprise Applications Synchronisation and Interop