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Developing a Science Base for Enterprise Interoperability

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Enterprise Interoperability IV

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Interoperability is an important characteristic of information systems, organisations, their processes and data. Achieving automated collaboration of processes and systems may lead to a dramatic increase in productivity for enterprises of any size. As a result of this projected benefit, interoperability has been prescribed by numerous standardization frameworks, guidelines at enterprise level, data schemas and techniques to tackle the problem of non-communicating systems or organisations. In parallel, most international software, hardware and service vendors created their own strategies for achieving the goal of open, collaborative, loosely coupled systems and components. This paper goes beyond the presentation of the main milestones in this fascinating quest for collaboration between people, systems and information: it attempts to describe how this new interdisciplinary research area can transform into a vibrant scientific domain, by applying the necessary method and tools. To achieve that, the chapter presents the ingredients of this new domain, proposes its needed formal and systematic tools, explores its relation with neighbouring scientific domains and finally prescribes the next steps for achieving the thrilling goal of laying the foundations of a new science.

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  1. University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

    Yannis Charalabidis

  2. New University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ricardo Jardim Gonçalves

  3. Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Keith Popplewell

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  1. Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, CV1 5FB, Coventry, UK

    Keith Popplewell

  2. Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire, UK

    Jenny Harding

  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering EPSA, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Pza Ferrandiz y Carbonell, 2, 03801, Alcoy, Spain

    Raul Poler

  4. Grupo de Integración y Re-Ingeniería de Sistemas DLSI, Universidad Jaume I., Av Sos Banyant s/n, 12071, Castellon, Spain

    Ricardo Chalmeta

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Charalabidis, Y., Gonçalves, R., Popplewell, K. (2010). Developing a Science Base for Enterprise Interoperability. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_23

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