Digging Into The Real-Life Enterprise Interoperability Areas Definition And Overview Of The Main Research Areas

摘要

Enterprise Interoperability is perceived as a capacity of two or more enterprises, including all the systems within their boundaries and the external systems that they utilize or are affected by, in order to cooperate seamlessly, in an automated manner, in depth of time for a common objective. The different layers of Interoperability define in high level the necessary stack for interoperable systems, however, their abstraction level hinders researchers and practitioners to really identify problems and provide solutions, as those levels do not only overlap in many cases, but they also hide important low level aspects that deal with technologies and methods that span across all levels. In order to identify a proper structure for Enterprise Interoperability, which can at a second stage be mapped to the four fundamental layers adapted by the European Interoperability Framework, one has to focus on the real object of observation, which is the "Enterprise", and by analysing it in its core components to identify the interoperability needs within them. Starting from those core ingredients of an Enterprise, and by analysing the current technological trends and the background knowledge of the domain the present papers presents the twelve main Scientific Themes of Enterprise Interoperability