Fwd: 5th issue of the International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems published

For those of you interested in "creating interoperability in business information systems", I thought you could add this to your reading list.  I assume there will be some discussion of governance.

Ken

Begin forwarded message:

Scope

The capability to efficiently interact, collaborate and exchange

information with business partners and within a company is one of the

most important challenges of each enterprise, especially forced by the

global markets and the resulting competition. Today, many software

systems are completely isolated and not integrated into a homogeneous

structure. This makes it hard to exchange information and to keep

business information in sync. Interoperability can be defined as the

ability of enterprise software and applications to interact. In Europe

between 30-40% of total IT budgets is spent on issues tied to

Interoperability.

This journal aims in exchanging and presenting research activities in

the area of creating interoperability in business information systems.

Ambition of this journal is to get an overview of current research

activities as well as to offer a broad discussion in selected areas of

the interoperability of heterogeneous information systems. It is

proposed to connect research experts from this domain and to exchange

ideas and approaches. It is our goal to connect latest research results

with real-world scenarios in order to increase interoperability in

business information systems.

Mission

The IBIS journal aims at distributing latest research results of the

interoperability domain free of charge. Hence, all accepted issues of

the journal can be downloaded for free at this website. All accepted

articles are peer reviewed by at least three independent members of the

review board. In order to assure an excellent quality, the journal only

accepts highly rated articles. Accepted submissions are published in

the journal and citable. The journal has got an international ISSN

number allowing a unique identification of papers. The International

Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems releases 4

issues a year.

Topics

Topics of the journal include, but are not limited to:

*	Integration of business information systems 

*	Enterprise modeling for Interoperability 

*	Interoperability architectures and frameworks 

*	Interoperability of business standards 

*	Intelligent mediators 

*	Coupling of information systems 

*	Interoperability of classification systems 

*	(Semi-)Automatic transformation of standards 

*	Interoperability of (meta) models 

*	Semantic integration concepts 

*	Interoperability between domain specific standards 

*	Semantic analysis of structured, semi-structured, and

unstructured data 

*	Interoperability of catalog based information systems 

*	Cooperation in heterogeneous information systems 

*	Ontology matching, merging and aligning 

*	Semantic combination of heterogeneous standards 

*	Ontology- and model management 

*	Interoperability of sector specific systems

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	From: 

[mailto:] On Behalf Of IBIS Journal

	Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 1:48 PM

	To: 

	Subject: IBIS Issue 5 published

	

	

	Dear colleagues,

	

	we are proud to inform you that the 5th issue of the

International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information

Systems (IBIS) online. 

	

	The IBIS-journal is available free of charge at 

	http://www.ibis-journal.net

	

	IBIS aims in exchanging and presenting research activities in

the area of creating interoperability in business information systems.

	

	

	You may download the full PDF

<http://aphrodite.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/media/ibis_issue_5_all.pd

f>  of this issue on our website. All articles are published under the

Digital Peer Publishing Licence. This ensures free distribution and it

also guarantees the authors' rights that no content is modified or

reused without citing the names of authors and holders of rights and

the bibliographical information used. 

	

	

	Summary

	IBIS is an academically peer reviewed online journal aiming at

publishing high quality articles. IBIS aims in exchanging and

presenting research activities in the area of creating interoperability

in business information systems. Ambition of this journal is to get an

overview of current research activities as well as to offer a broad

discussion in selected areas of the interoperability of heterogeneous

information systems. It is proposed to connect research experts from

this domain and to exchange ideas and approaches. It is our goal to

connect latest research results with real-world scenarios in order to

increase interoperability in business information systems.

	

	

	Content of issue 5

	We can announce that due to much request and some good input,

we managed to bring up a new journal system which should better meet

your and our needs towards Open Access publishing. Furthermore, we

would like to welcome our new co-editors, Kai Mertins, John Krogstie

and Andreas L.Opdahl.

	 

	For this issue, we accepted about 15% of all submissions.The

following titles are included in issue 5:

	*	PLASMA: A Platform for Schema Matching and Management 

Abstract: This paper introduces an XML Schema management platform that

promotes

the use of matching techniques to fulfill the requirements of data

integration and data

exchange. The existing platforms, in the market, deal only with

graphical but not

automatic matching. Several matching algorithms were suggested, by

different

researchers, to automate the correspondences discovery between XML

Schemas. These

algorithms use a wide range of approaches and matching techniques with

systematically many parameters and weights to be adjusted manually. In

our platform

(PLASMA) we suggest a matching algorithm that uses constraints and a

combination of

structural and description matching. In addition to our innovative

matching algorithm,

we adopt an automating tuning for the various structural parameters

used and propose

a Mapping Expression model along with a collection of transformation

operators.

Hence, PLASMA enables a semantic matching process followed by a visual

mapping

process to optimize the translation process between exchanged documents

or

integrated schema.

	*	Using Ontologies to Model and Understand Product

Development 

		Abstract: New product development is crucial for almost

any company's future. At the same time,

it is one of the most knowledge-intensive and complex business

processes. Nowadays the high

complexity of most products requires the cooperation of engineers from

various fields such as

mechanical engineering, electronics and software design to achieve

outstanding results. Thus,

project management becomes a most important issue to guide a

development project through

conflicting goals, misunderstandings or scarce resources.

To ease the interoperability between engineering domains, to understand

the different phases of

development projects and translate technical properties into meaningful

key figures for project

assessment, ontologies are a promising technology. The semantic

approach they provide can help to

bridge the inconsistencies between the many domains involved and to

deliver one integrated,

flexible model for engineering projects and processes.

This article shows how partial development information from

domain-specific IT-systems is

converted into an integrated semantic model. Therefore, we discuss

generic development processes

and ontologies representing individual phases and partial models. In

this paper we focus on the task

of data integration when dealing with a set of partial product or

project models: transformations

from source systems into an ontology, mapping of partial models and

coherence of variable models.

The thereby arising integrated model grows with the product and serves

as repository for various

questions concerning the development project such as: Is the project on

time and in budget? Which

requirements are met? Are there conflicts between product elements? To

answer these questions,

metrics and a method for their derivation are introduced and shown in

an example from Software

Development.

The paper closes with the introduction of Permeter, a performance

measurement framework

implementing the described methodology. The framework is under

development at the University of

Oldenburg.

	*	An Enterprise Application Integration Architecture

Supporting Ontology Based Approach for B2B Collaboration 

Abstract: An important task in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

is to resolve

syntactic and semantic heterogeneity. Especially difficult the latter

is. Some existing

integration approaches have been criticized for their lack of semantic

richness. They

focus mainly on the technical and syntactical integration. To overcome

these

limitations, this paper introduces novel ontology based architecture to

ensure both

sides of integration: inside Application to Application (A2A) and

outside Business to

Business (B2B), in order to support larger scale of integrations.

Our proposal includes two important parts. First, we suggest an

integration process

basing on mapping approach to bridge applications ontologies. Second,

we introduce an

approach to build business process ontology using web services

composition strategy

and an integration scenario. We also use BPEL4WS language as a

specification language

for expressing business process control flow and constraints.

	We hope you will appreciate the journal and the articles we

selected for this issue.

	 

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	Best regards,

	

	your IBIS-Editorial team

	(Axel Hahn, Sven Abels, Mathias Uslar,

	Kai Mertins, John Krogstie and Andreas L. Opdahl)

	

	

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