International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information (IBIS)

International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems
(IBIS)

http://aphrodite.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?journal=ibis

Publisher: Department of Informatics, University of Oldenburg

The capability to efficiently interact, collaborate and exchange information
with business partners and within a company is one of the most important
challenges of each enterprise, especially forced by the global markets and
the resulting competition.

Today, many software systems are completely isolated and not integrated into
a homogeneous structure. This makes it hard to exchange information and to
keep business information in sync. Interoperability can be defined as the
ability of enterprise software and applications to interact. In Europe
between 30-40% of total IT budgets is spent on issues tied to
Interoperability.

This journal aims in exchanging and presenting research activities in the
area of creating interoperability in business information systems. Ambition
of this journal is to get an overview of current research activities as well
as to offer a broad discussion in selected areas of the interoperability of
heterogeneous information systems.

It is proposed to connect research experts from this domain and to exchange
ideas and approaches. It is our goal to connect latest research results with
real-world scenarios in order to increase interoperability in business
information systems.

Topics of the journal include, but are not limited to:

* Integration of business information systems
* Enterprise modeling for Interoperability
* Interoperability architectures and frameworks
* Interoperability of business standards
* Intelligent mediators
* Coupling of information systems
* Interoperability of classification systems
* (Semi-)Automatic transformation of standards
* Interoperability of (meta) models
* Semantic integration concepts
* Interoperability between domain specific standards
* Semantic analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
* Interoperability of catalog based information systems
* Cooperation in heterogeneous information systems
* Ontology matching, merging and aligning
* Semantic combination of heterogeneous standards
* Ontology- and model management
* Interoperability of sector specific systems
* Service-oriented architectures and web services for interoperability
* Model-driven architectures for interoperability

ISSN: 1862-6378

Principal Contact:

Axel Hahn
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Professorship Business Engineering
University of Oldenburg Department of Business Information Systems
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg

Phone: +49 (0) 441 / 798 - 44 8
Fax: +49 (0) 441 / 798 - 44 7
Email: hahn@offis.de

International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems is
available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Vol 3, No 1 (2008)

Date: 7 February 2008