The introduction of new technology is always met by resistance from the exponents of current technology. However, “technology at this point is simply a means to an end. What is really strategic is the use of the information and how we exploit and maximize it.” This means that before we can introduce Enterprise Application Integration, we must justify its use. To do this, we will initially look ...

Integration of applications and business processes is a top priority for many enterprises today. Requirements for improved customer service or self-service, rapidly changing business environments and support for mergers and acquisitions are major drivers for increased integration between existing “stovepipe” systems. Very few new business applications are being developed or deployed without a m...

Metadata play crucial role in enterprise interoperability between business, service and information layers. Metadata in different form, such as the abstract of system structure, aggregation of information, repository and semantic mediation play different role to achieve the integration interoperability, so each type of metadata contribute their value to enterprise integration. As misalignment w...

In this paper we argue that there exist two basic forms of business-to-business integration (B2Bi), namely, extended enterprise integration and market B2Bi. The paper at hand clarifies the meaning of both concepts, shows that the difference between both is fundamental, and discusses the consequences of the difference in the realm of Web services development. The importance of coordination and t...

This paper provides a brief overview of the research underway in the Enterprise Integration Laboratory at the University of Toronto.

A virtual transport enterprise (VTE) is a temporary alliance of independent transport enterprises that come together to share resources, skills, and costs, supported by Information and Communication Technologies, in order to better attend market opportunities. To design an efficient and flexible VTE that presents the semblance of a single enterprise to the customers, is a very complex task. The...

We present a logical framework for representing the agents in two different cooperating information systems. We define an architecture for Integrated Supply Chain Management in which the supply chain is managed by a set of intelligent agents responsible for one or more activities. We also define an architecture for an enterprise engineering system that allows the exploration of a variety of ent...

The complexity of planning and scheduling is determined by the degree to which activities contend for resources. Accordingly this requires any application to have the ability to reason about the nature of the resource and its availability. This paper presents a generic enterprise resource ontology. The ontology described in this paper is one of many that is being created by the TOVE project in ...

The construction of enterprise information is facing more or less heterogeneous system integration problems in the deepening process. On the basis of analyzing the advantages of service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service technology in realizing heterogeneous system integration, a fast and flexible enterprise information system integration scheme based on combining SOA and Web service t...