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This paper looks at how the use of ontologies to describe businesses and systems may allow a move away from standardization, as a basis for Enterprise Business Integration in favor of mediation between different standards. It proposes the Supply Chain Councils SCOR [1] model as a possible base for an ontology to describe businesses and systems. A workbench is described that would allow automatic configuration of orchestration systems to manage business to business and system to system integration. It also shows how the Semantic Web [2] could be used by agents to identify beneficial changes in a company’s supply chain.
Opinions and intuitions expressed in this invited keynote address at CaiSE’s workshop on Web Services, E-Business and the Semantic Web, are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect Hewlett-Packard Company’s position.
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Croke, P. (2004). Enterprise Business Integration in 2010A.D.. In: Bussler, C.J., Fensel, D., Orlowska, M.E., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25982-4_1
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