Authors:
Wided Guédria
1
and
Sérgio Guerreiro
2
Affiliations:
1
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
;
2
University of Lisbon and INESC-ID, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Assessment, Control, Enterprise Networks, Interoperability, Maturity, Diagnosis, Meta-Model.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Ontology
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The obligation to become more competitive and effective in providing better products and services requires
enterprises to transform from traditional businesses into networked businesses. One of the challenges faced
by a network of enterprises is the development of interoperability between its members. Transformations
in this context are usually driven by Enterprise Interoperability (EI) problems that may be faced. In order to
quickly overcome these problems, enterprises need characterizing and assessing interoperability to be prepared
to establish means for collaboration and initiate corrective actions before potential interoperability problems
occur and then be obliged to make unprepared transformations that may be costly and induce unmanageable
issues. In this paper, we define an integrated metamodel for interoperability using DEMO. The proposed
metamodel is based on an Ontology of Enterprise Interoperability (OoEI) and concepts from a maturity model
for interoperability while taki
ng into account principles from Enterprise Dynamic Systems Control (EDSC)
domain. It allows to understand and control the dynamic behavior of interoperability between companies.
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