Title
Sustainable interoperability: The future of Internet based industrial enterprises
Abstract
Enterprise Interoperability is a high-impact productivity factor both within the private and the public sector, affecting the overall quality, yield time and cost of transactions, as well as the design of manufacturing operations or digital public services. This paper addresses the rationale and analysis of the results of the special issue on sustainable interoperability, which is defined here as focusing on novel strategies, methods and tools to maintain and sustain the interoperability of enterprise systems in networked environments as they evolve with their environments. The paper starts by reviewing current state of the systems interoperability research domain and describing the constitution of the community of systems interoperability research and application. We then outline this community's progress on the development of a science base for Enterprise Interoperability. The paper then identifies how each paper in this special issue contributes to the body of knowledge on sustainable interoperability, according to three main development areas: Enterprise Network Configuration; Architectures and Data Models; and Fundamentals for an Enterprise Interoperability Science Base. Finally the paper discusses the aggregate contributions towards sustainable interoperability, in an evolving technological, business and social environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.compind.2012.08.016
Computers in Industry
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Enterprise Interoperability Science Base,main development area,industrial enterprise,sustainable interoperability,Enterprise Interoperability,special issue,public sector,systems interoperability research,digital public service,systems interoperability research domain,Enterprise Network Configuration
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0166-3615
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves136731.52
Keith Popplewell212115.25
Antonio Grilo315511.80