Enterprise integration is significant for the enforcement of novel business models in an enterprise/industry. The great heterogeneity of systems/applications in the enterprise environment requires the introduction of interoperability aspects in order to resolve integration problems in a flexible and dynamic way. Our approach introduces an advanced enterprise semantic model representing both enterprise structure and available services, through the use of ontologies. The model is associated by a specific architecture that uses the above model in combination with state-of-the-art technologies such as Web services and workflows
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Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on
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Date of Conference: 19-22 Sept. 2005