Workflow - Coordinated Integration of Enterprise / Industrial Systems based on a Semantic Service - Oriented Architecture
Christos Alexakos, Athanasios P. Kalogeras, SPIRIDON D. LIKOTHANASSIS, John Gialelis, Stavros Koubias · 2006
Enterprise integration is significant for the enforcement of novel business models in an enterprise/industry. The great heterogeneity of systems/applications in the enterprise environment requires the introduction of interoperability aspects in order to resolve integration problems in a flexible and dynamic way. Our approach introduces an advanced enterprise semantic model representing both enterprise structure and available services, through the use of ontologies. The model is associated by a specific architecture that uses the above model in combination with state-of-the-art technologies such as Web services and workflows