A knowledge-based approach to manage information systems interoperability

Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 754-784

  Ralyté, Jolita ^a   Jeusfeld, Manfred A ^b   Backlund, Per ^c   Kühn, Harald ^d   Arni Bloch, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^d BOC Information Systems GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Interoperability; Interoperability Classification Framework; Knowledge base; Method chunk; Method repository; Situational Method Engineering

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SILVER; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; FORMALISATION; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; INTEROPERABILITY CLASSIFICATION; INTEROPERABILITY CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; MANAGE INFORMATION; METHOD CHUNK; METHOD REPOSITORY; ORGANISATIONAL ASPECTS; PAPER ADDRESSES; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 49849088240     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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