Enterprise Interoperability: new Challenges and Approaches. Proceedings of I-ESA'06 Conference, Bordeaux, March 20-24, 2006.

The Enterprise Interoperability can be defined as the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the customer or user. The possibility to interact and exchange information with internal and external collaborators is a key issue not only in the enterprise sector but also in Administration sectors. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and services quickly, at lower cost, while maintaining higher levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is considered achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account the semantics. It is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared business references. A very new important aspect is today taking in consideration: the Economic Business evaluation and the definition of dissemination Policy The conference is sponsored by the European Commission, via the INTEROP Network of Excellence and ATHENA Integrated Project (in the frame of the 6th IST Framework Research Program). It is also supported by IFIP(International Federation for Information Processing) , IFAC( International Federation of Automatic Control) an various National Associations.