In current spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), it is still often difficult to effectively exchange or
re-use geographic data sets. A main reason for this is semantic heterogeneity, which occurs …

A seamless support of information flow for increasingly distributed healthcare processes
requires to integrate heterogeneous IT systems into a comprehensive distributed information …

Integration of information systems is a prerequisite for efficient collaboration within and
between organizations. Despite intensive research on integration issues in Information …

Reinhard Jung rückt die Datenintegration in den Mittelpunkt seiner Untersuchung. In Form
eines Methodenvorschlags zeigt er, wie sich auf der Basis einer qualitativen Beschreibung …

The emergence of spatial data infrastructures offering geospatial information from
heterogeneous sources involves the need to achieve an integration of databases from …

Over the last decades, companies and organizations have gradually built up an IT
environment for supporting their informational and operational needs, very often resulting in …

Healthcare increasingly changes from isolated treatment episodes towards a continuous
treatment process involving multiple healthcare professionals and various institutions. This …

Publisher Summary Information integration provides a competitive advantage to businesses
and is fundamental to on demand computing. It is strategic area of investment by software …

On the one hand, data models decrease the complexity of information system development.
On the other hand, data models causes additional complexity. Recently structural analogies …

In jüngster Zeit steht zur methodischen Unterstützung der Aufgaben der Unternehmens-IT
eine stetig wachsende Anzahl von Referenzmodellen zur Verfügung. Aus verschiedenen …