Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production, quickly and at low

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Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications

Dimitri Konstantas, Jean-Paul Bourrières, Michel Léonard and Nacer Boudjlida (Eds.)

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Dimitri Konstantas, Prof. Dr. Eng. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique Department of Information Systems Université de Genève 24 rue du Général-Dufour CH-1211 Genève 4 Switzerland

Jean-Paul Bourrières, Prof. Dr. Université Bordeaux 1 Laboratoire d’Automatique et de Productique Signal et Images 351, cours de la Libération 33405 Talence cedex France

Michel Léonard, Prof. Dr. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique Department of Information Systems Université de Genève 24 rue du Général-Dufour CH-1211 Genève 4 Switzerland

Nacer Boudjlida, Prof. Dr. Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 Bâtiment LORIA BP 239 54506 Vandœuvre Lès Nancy cedex France

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data INTEROP-ESA 2005 (Conference: 2005) Interoperability of enterprise software and applications 1. Internetworking (Telecommunications) - Congresses I. Title II. Konstantas, Dimitri, 1958004.6 ISBN-13: 9781846281518 ISBN-10: 1846281512 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005931919 ISBN-10: 1-84628-151-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-151-8

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Preface Dimitri Konstantas1, Jean-Paul Bourrières2, Michel Leonard1 and Nacer Boudjlida3 1

University of Geneva, Dept. of Information Systems/CUI, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland, [email protected], [email protected] 2 University of Bordeaux I, Laboratoire d’Automatique et de Productique, Signal et Images, 351 cours de la Liberation, F-33405, Talence cedex, France, [email protected] 3 University Henri Poincare Na