Cross-organisational collaboration within so-called virtual organisations (VOs) allows a
company to focus on its core business within a dynamic network of partners providing …

Virtual organisations allow companies of all sizes to pursue immediate marketplace
opportunities. This places substantial demands on supporting software to ensure seamless …

A science base for enterprise interoperability was first proposed in 2006, as a mechanism to
formalize knowledge being generated by researchers and applied by industry to facilitate …

Current e-business frameworks lack the capability of abstracting the underlying resource
infrastructures in order to allow for seamless integration and thus smooth interaction …

Semantic interoperability is a crucial issue in industrial enterprises when they participate in
virtual organisations (VOs), ie, when they dynamically form network-based collaborative …

The next phase of enterprise interoperability will address the sharing of knowledge within a
Virtual Organisation (VO) to the mutual benefit of all VO partners. Such knowledge will be a …

For the successful transition to an agile industry, where manufacturing firms cooperate under
virtual enterprise structures, there exists much need for a mechanism to manage and control …

In cross-organisational business interactions, integrating different partners raises
interoperability problems especially on the technical level. The internal processes and …

Interoperability is one of the keys to the future global market. With respect to the
technological leadership claimed by Germany, it can not be sufficient to passively follow the …

ABSTRACT Research on Enterprise Interoperability (EI) has evolved to meet real pragmatic
needs to support the ever more collaborative nature of, for example, enterprise supply …