Development of a Metamodel to Foster Interoperability along the Product Lifecycle Traceability -- Business Process Requirements, Modeling Technique and Standard: how to Identify Interoperability Gaps on a Process Level -- An Architecture for Semantic Enterprise Application Integration Standards -- Inter-Organization Interoperability in Transport Chains Using Adapters Based on Open Source Freeware -- MAFIIA — An Architectural Description Framework: Experience from the Health Care Domain -- ISO Standards for Interoperability: a Comparison -- ONAR: An Ontologies-based Service Oriented Application Integration Framework -- A Framework for Semantic Enterprise Integration -- A Framework to Support Interoperability among Semantic Resources -- Virtual Breeding Environment: Working and Sharing Principles -- Modeling and Using Business Collaborations -- Establishing Interoperability of Coordination Protocols in ad hoc Inter-Organizational Collaborations -- Ontology-based Interoperability Services for Semantic Collaboration in Open Networked Systems -- Interoperability through integrating Semantic Web Technology, Web Services, and Workflow Modeling -- An M3-Neutral Infrastructure for Bridging Model Engineering and Ontology Engineering -- Contract-based Interoperability for E-Business Transactions -- Interoperability Middleware for Federated Enterprise Applications in web-Pilarcos -- Customizable Isolation in Transactional Workflow -- Transforming Workflow Graphs -- Interoperability Issues in Metamodelling Platforms -- Towards Using UML 2 for Modelling Web Service Collaboration Protocols -- Quantitative Analysis of Enterprise Architectures -- Mapping Specification in MDA: From Theory to Practice -- Experiment in Model Driven Validation of BPEL Specifications -- Integrating Business Processes with Peer-to-Peer Technology -- Design and Implementation of a Peer-to-Peer Data Quality Broker -- Moving from Internal to External Services Using Aspects -- Methodology for the Definition of a Glossary in a Collaborative Research Project and its Application to a European Network of Excellence -- Ontology-based Semantic Interoperability Tools for Service Dynamic Discovery -- Identifying Business Components on the Basis of an Enterprise Ontology -- Using Connectors for Deployment of Heterogeneous Applications in the Context of OMG D&C Specification -- Development of an Integrated Retrieval System on Distributed KRISTAL-2002 Systems with Metadata Information -- A Domain Model for the IST Infrastructure -- Towards a New Infrastructure Supporting Interoperability of Information Systems in Development: the Information System upon Information Systems -- Design Solutions for Interoperability Using a Process Manager -- Towards an Interoperability Framework for Model-Driven Development of Software Systems -- Syndicate Data Incorporation into Data Warehouses: Contrasting Consumer Problems with Supplier Viewpoints -- Conformance Testing of Open Interfaces in Healthcare Applications - Case Context Management -- Interoperability Research in the European Union -- The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence -- Interoperability Contributions of CrossWork -- Networked Organisations — Research into Standards and Standardisation -- Methods for the Analysis of Supply Network Processes at European SMEs -- The INTEROP Network of Excellence -- ATHENA - Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications -- Terregov: eGoverment Interoperability on a Semantically Driven World.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production, quickly and at low cost, of goods and services and, at the same time, maintaining levels of quality and customisation. While data exchange and IT applications are vital contributions to successful interoperability, communications and common semantics can be just as important between businesses. Composed of more than 40 papers of international authorship, Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial experience of interoperability. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas. The INTEROP-ESA’05 conference from which this book is drawn was sponsored by the European Union and the Swiss federal government under the IST research program and was further supported by International Society for Information Processing and the Association for Computing Machinery. A concise reference to the state of the art in software interoperability, Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in the academic environment.