First International Workshop on Enterprise and Networked Enterprises Interoperability ( ENEI ’ 05 ) September 5 , 2005 Pre - proceedings

Enterprise Modelling in general, and Business Process Modelling in particular, have been used for decades for different purposes and with interesting results. However, a variety of problems can be identified in this context and it is difficult for many enterprises to leverage the full potential and benefits of these technologies. One of the most important problems in this sense is the lack of interoperability among enterprises at modelling level. Quite some efforts have been carried out in this domain to improve enterprise interoperability at this level. The development of the POP* meta-model is one of these initiatives, whose goal is to develop a meta-model and a corresponding methodology that enable enterprises, which use different Enterprise Modelling Tools, to exchange their enterprise models. In this paper, we present a ’proof of concept’ of the POP* meta-model focused on the process dimension, which is expected to contribute to understanding how this meta-model can be used to exchange different business process models among partners of networks of collaborative enterprises. Moreover, the work performed in this ’proof of concept’ has been useful to validate and improve the development of the POP* metamodel.