Abstract
If we try to increase the level of automation in Business-to-Business (B2B) Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios, we confront challenges related to the resolution of data heterogeneities, service discovery and process composition. In this paper, we propose the Enterprise Interoperability Ontology (ENIO) that provides a shared, common understanding of data, services and processes within B2B integration scenarios. ENIO consists of an Upper Enterprise Interoperability Ontology (Upper ENIO), which is based on the DOLCE-SUMO alignment, with extensions called facets that cover several dimensions of the EAI domain. Each facet contains a relative meta-model that utilizes widely adopted standards. Finally, we demonstrate the utilization of ENIO in a real-world B2B scenario across a franchisor-franchisees collaborative value network.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Bouras, A., Gouvas, P., & Mentzas, G. (2007). ENIO: An Enterprise Application Integration Ontology. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises (SWAE), DEXA’07, 3–7 September, 2007, Regensburg, Germany.
Bussler, C. (2002). B2B integration technology architecture. In the Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 26–28, 2002.
Cardoso, H. L., & Oliveira, E. (2005). Virtual Enterprise Normative Framework within Electronic Institutions. In M.-P. Gleizes, A. Omicini & F. Zambonelli (eds.), Engineering Societies in the Agents World V, LNAI 3451, Springer, ISBN 3-540-27330-1, pp. 14–32, 2005.
Farrell, J., & Lausen, H. (2006). Semantic Annotations for WSDL. W3C Working Draft.
Friesen, A., A., Alazeib, A. Balogh, et al. M. Bauer, A. Bouras, P. Gouvas, G. Mentzas, A. Pace (2007) Towards semantically-assisted design of collaborative business processes in EAI scenarios, 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, July 23–27 Vienna.
Haller, A., Gomez, J., & Bussler, C. (2005). Exposing Semantic Web Service principles in SOA to solve EAI scenarios, in Workshop on Web Service Semantics, in WWW2005.
Izza, S., Vincent, L., & Burlat, P. (2005). A Unified Framework for Application Integration -an Ontology-driven Service-oriented Approach. ICEIS (1) 2005: 165–170.
Malone, T.W., Crowston. K., & Herman, G.A. (2003). Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Nagarajan, M., et al. (2006). Semantic Interoperability of Enterprise Services -Challenges and Experiences. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Services
Oberle, D. (2006). Semantic Management of Middleware, volume I of The Semantic Web and Beyond. Springer, 2006.
Oberle, D., Ankolekar, et al. (2006). DOLCE ergo SUMO: On Foundational and Domain Models in SWIntO, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe. July 2006.
Tektonidis. D., Bokma, A., Oatley, G., & Salampasis, M. (2005). ONAR: An Ontologies-based Service-Oriented Application Integration Framework, I-ESA’05, Geneva, Switzerland.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bouras, A., Gouvas, P., Kourtesis, D., Mentzas, G. (2007). Semantic Integration of Business Applications across Collaborative Value Networks. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Novais, P., Analide, C. (eds) Establishing the Foundation of Collaborative Networks. PRO-VE 2007. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 243. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0_58
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0_58
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-0564-5
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-73798-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)