Enterprise Interoperability (eBook)

Preface 5
Organization 7
Table of Contents 9
Full Papers 9
Towards Cross-Organizational Innovative Business Process Interoperability Services 11
Introduction 11
Related Work 12
Collaborative Business Process Interoperability 12
Top-Down Vertical Business Process Interoperability 13
Bottom-Up Vertical Business Process Interoperability 15
Towards EI Service Utilities 17
Ongoing Activities and Preliminary Results 19
Tooling: Research, Candidates and Evaluation in Respect to SaaS 19
Transformation from Private Process to View Process 20
CBPip Post-execution Analysis with CBPip Modeling 21
Conclusions and Future Work 21
BP Modeling Enhancement: Next Steps 21
Transformation into a View Process: Next Steps 22
CBPip Post-execution Analysis: Next Steps 22
References 22
Barriers to Enterprise Interoperability 23
Introduction 23
The Framework for Enterprise Interoperability 24
Identifying the Barriers to Interoperability 26
Conceptual Barriers 27
Technological Barriers 29
Organizational Barriers 30
Relationships between the Barriers 31
Conclusion 33
References 34
A SOA-Based Platform-Specific Framework for Context-Aware Mobile Applications 35
Introduction 35
Design Methodology 36
Reference Architecture 36
MDA-Based Methodology 38
Platform-Specific Framework 39
Case Study 42
Related Work 45
Conclusions and Future Work 45
References 46
An Ontological Solution to Support Interoperability in the Textile Industry 48
Introduction 48
Ontology Basic Concepts 49
Ontology Representation Formalisms 50
Ontology Development Methodologies 51
Enterprise Ontology Review 52
Enterprise Ontology Approaches 52
Case Study Context 53
About the Textile/Clothing Industry 53
Textile/Clothing Industry Interoperability Approaches Review 53
Development of an Ontology for the Textile/Clothing Industry 54
Determine the Domain, the Benefits and the Scope of the Ontology 55
Identification of Relevant Terms 56
Introduction of Basic Relationships between Terms 57
Design and Creation of the Required Application Axioms 58
Conclusions 59
References 59
An Approach towards Enterprise Interoperability Assessment 62
Introduction 62
Related Work 64
Outline of Paper 65
The Proposed Interoperability Assessment Method 65
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) 66
Steps of the Proposed Approach 67
A Case Study Using the Method 70
Conclusion and Future Work 73
References 73
Classifying Enterprise Architecture Analysis Approaches 76
Introduction and Motivation 76
A Classification Schema for EA Analysis Approaches 78
State-of-the-Art in Enterprise Architecture Analysis 81
Conclusion and Outlook 85
References 87
Guiding the Service Engineering Process: The Importance of Service Aspects 90
Introduction 90
The Service Aspects 92
The Relevance of Cross-Organizational Collaboration 92
Increased Importance of the Identification of Stakeholders 93
The Need for Increased Effort at Run-/Change Time 94
Applying Service Aspects to a Concrete Methodology 94
The SeCSE Methodology 95
The SOSE Process Model for the SeCSE Methodology 95
Related Work 101
Conclusions 102
References 103
From Business Value Model to Coordination Process Model 104
Introduction 104
Related Work 105
Business Value Models and Coordination Process Models 106
Differences 107
Similarities 108
From a Value Model to a Coordination Model 109
Case Study 111
Value Model 111
Coordination Model 114
Analysis of Results 114
Conclusion and Future Work 115
References 116
Position Papers 9
SOP4EBPM: Generating Executable Business Services from Business Models 117
Introduction 117
REMPLANET Project 119
REMPLANET SOP4EBPM 119
Related Work 121
Conclusions 122
References 122
A Framework for a Decision Support System in a Hierarchical Extended Enterprise Decision Context 123
Introduction 123
Hierarchical Production Planning 124
Logical Constructs for Information and Decision Systems 124
A Framework for Decision Support Systems in Hierarchical Extended Enterprise Decision Making 125
Components 125
Relationships 127
Roles 129
DSS Platform 129
Interoperability Aspects 131
Conclusions 132
References 133
An Interoperability Architecture for Networked Service Delivery 135
Introduction 135
State of the Art 136
Service Composition 136
Service Provisioning 137
Service Quality 137
Components of the Service Architecture 138
Discussion of the Service Architecture 140
Conclusion 141
References 141
Author Index 143