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Requirements for Supporting Enterprise Interoperability in Dynamic Environments

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Enterprise Interoperability VI

Part of the book series: Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences ((IESACONF,volume 7))

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Interoperability in enterprise systems is currently discussed from a system theoretic point of view. In the conceptual work described here, two special instances of systems theory are used as a basis allowing to detail requirements for interoperability in dynamic environments. Chaos Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory focus on the description of properties of dynamic systems where the global system’s behavior cannot be determined by summing up behaviors of system parts. First a connection between enterprise systems and the theories are established. The theories are then used as a lens for analyzing and discussing initial requirements for a platform that supports interoperability in a dynamic context.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partly funded by the European Commission through the Project Marie Curie—Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) program project: IANES (Grant Agreement No. 286083). The authors wish to acknowledge the Commission for their support. For more information on the IANES project see http://www.ianes.eu.

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  1. Department of Communications Engineering—Business Informatics, Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Straße 69 Science Park 3, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Georg Weichhart

  2. Metasonic AG, Münchner Str. 29–Hettenshausen, 85276, Pfaffenhofen, Germany

    Georg Weichhart

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    Frédérick Bénaben

  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

    Raúl Poler

  4. Laboratoire de l'Intégration du Matériau au Système, Talence Cedex, France

    Jean-Paul Bourrières

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Weichhart, G. (2014). Requirements for Supporting Enterprise Interoperability in Dynamic Environments. In: Mertins, K., Bénaben, F., Poler, R., Bourrières, JP. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VI. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04948-9_40

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