Abstract
With the demand of globalization, the opportunities for collaboration became more evident with the effect of enlarging business networks. In such conditions, a key for enterprise success is a reliable communication with all the partners. Therefore, organizations have been searching for flexible integrated environments to better manage their services and product life cycle, where their software applications could be easily integrated independently of the platform in use. However, with so many different information models and implementation standards being used, interoperability problems arise. Moreover, organizations are themselves at different technological maturity levels, and the solution that might be good for one, can be too advanced for another, or vice versa. The work presented in this paper responds to the above needs proposing a framework for model language independent P2P mappings on a need-to-serve basis for interoperability of complex business networks.
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Agostinho, C., Correia, F., Jardim-Goncalves, R. (2010). Interoperability of Complex Business Networks by Language Independent Information Models. In: Pokojski, J., Fukuda, S., Salwiński, J. (eds) New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering. Advanced Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-024-3_12
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