functions automation and mergers and acquisitions business subjects integration into a whole. Modern business requires business processes integration through their dynamics and thus enterprise application integration (EAI) as well. In this connection it is necessary to find ways and means of application integration and interaction in a consistent and reliable way. The real-time enterprise (RTE)...

The objective of this study is to establish a base for understanding inflexibility, with different kinds of integration problems being examined and explained. Studies of process integration have focused mostly on the design and management of efficient operation with information technology but very little on the difficulty in making changes with tightly linked processes. In order to eliminate ri...

In this paper we present our approach to support business processes integration and execution using telco services. We adopt Web mashup techniques to systematically develop collaborative Web applications and utilize telco services as a well-known and ubiquitous medium for data transfer and exchange. We define a telco mashup reference architecture and derive a dedicated mashup execution platform...

Increasing social, economic and environmental pressure force the process industry to look for new ways to improve the overall operation of their process systems.Since these systems are operated at different levels of decision (apparatus, plant, enterprise, etc.) integration of the different levels is expected to lead to significant improvements in system efficiency (energy, waste, costs, qualit...

In the study of business management, process integration has become an interesting area of research that affects analysts studying and working on existing system plans. Process integration aims to investigate relationships across a business compendium to produce classifications and merge similar activities into a standardized system. Integration is the process of merging elements from two simil...

Even though the design of business processes most often has to consolidate the knowledge of several process stakeholders, this fact is utilized only to a limited extent by existing modeling methodologies. We address this shortcoming in this paper by building an analogy between database schema design by view integration on the one hand and process modeling on the other hand. In particular, we sp...

In order to meet the requirement of a broad support of inter-organisational business processes, a smooth integration into existing business applications is necessary. Standardisation initiatives such as ebXML promise to provide a framework for flexible process and data interoperability among businesses. This is used as the basis for the development of the openXchange reference architecture desc...

This article aims at the integration of communities of practice into work processes. Linear structures are often inappropriate for the execution of knowledge intensive tasks and work processes. The latter are characterized by non-linear sequences and dynamic, social interaction. But for the work in communities of practice the leading path, that is needed for structuring the work, is often missi...

Today, enterprise application integration is still facing many problems and the crucial one is the semantic heterogeneity. This problem is not adequately addressed by today's solutions that focus mainly on the technical and syntactical integration. Using the semantic aspect will promote enterprise applications by providing it more consistency and interoperability. The development of ontologies ...

The aim of this study is to obtain a dynamic modelling and simulation of a Portuguese industrial integrated system composed of three different processes. This work includes the analysis of the optimal integration of the different units, and the study of the effect of some operational and atmospheric conditions on the system to maximize its global thermal efficiency. The cogeneration system was ...