Claudia Guglielmina

The ATHENA Interoperability Framework

In this paper we present results from the ATHENA Integrated Project in defining the ATHENA Interoperability Framework (AIF) for enterprise applications and software systems. The AIF provides a compound framework and associated reference architecture for capturing the research elements and solutions to interoperability issues that address the problem in a holistic way. The AIF also provides an associated methodological framework which describes the approach towards interoperability from the decision to evaluate collaboration until solution maintenance, and the reference guidelines for the adoption of the reference architecture.

Performance and Architecture Modeling of Interoperability System for SME’s

SMEs’ needs to have sufficient information system functionality for affordable price were the main reason for development of business integration. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) development and technology creation helped to better fulfill modern needs of SMEs. One of ESB variants – Application Bus for InteroperabiLITy In enlarged Europe SMEs (ABILITIES) – is described in this paper. Problems of creation, architecture and performance issues of such interoperability infrastructure are discussed. Colored Petri Net model for performance evaluation of such infrastructure is presented and evaluated.

Suitable EAI architectures are necessary to fit interoperability challenges of SME's in less developed countries

In this paper, we describe the main barriers for interoperability between different SMEs in less developed countries. We explain how we address these barriers by technologies like UBL and approach how to include and support humans into the B2B process using a federated integration approach instead of forcing everything to be done through the system.