Business Process Fusion based on Semantically‐enabled Service‐Oriented Business Applications
Athanasios Bouras, Panagiotis Gouvas, Andreas Friesen, Stelios A. Pantelopoulos, Spiros Alexakis, Gregoris N. Mentzas · 2006
European enterprises, which contain several heterogeneous systems, create fuzzy networks of interconnected applications, services and data sources, and cooperate with international partners in the enlarged Europe, need holistic Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) solutions in order to operate their e-business effectively. The FUSION project aims to promote efficient business collaboration and interconnection between enterprises (including SMEs) by developing innovative technologies for the semantic fusion of heterogeneous service-oriented business applications. Such applications may exist either within an enterprise or in several collaborating companies within the enlarged Europe. This paper presents the vision and technical architecture of the FUSION IST project.