Composing Web-service-like abstract state machines (ASM)

The presentation provides an overview on semi-automatic design of Collaborative Business Processes for B2B/EAI integration in the EU project FUSION. The introduced Enterprise Application Integration Ontology and a mediator-based run-time architecture for CBPs integrating heterogeneous web services enabled enterprise systems build the corner stones of the FUSION solution. The functionality and the building blocks of the Collaborative Business Process Designer are discussed in detail. The talk provides then an example demonstrating initial ideas for generating an executable collaborative business process out of a CBP template automatically

Towards collaborative applications using web services

Web services are becoming popular as a system integration solution for distributed applications. They allow for publishing, finding and binding of distributed software components over a Wide Area Network like the Internet and are platform and operating system independent. In a traditional scenario, ontologies are defined and published by a consortium or enterprise group for each application discourse. These specifications can later be implemented by many web service providers.Eje: Procesamiento distribuido y paraleloRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Investigating Factors Affecting Integration Technologies Adoption in Organizations

The existing works point out that smaller organisations have been shown to have different technology adoption patterns than large ones. However, it is unclear whether Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations take decisions for the adoption of integration technologies by focusing on different factors. Moreover, the literature also shows that there is an absence of theoretical models that explain the adoption of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services in SMEs. These research issues, derived from the literature review, are taken into consideration and addressed in this paper, aiming at highlighting any significant difference in the way SMEs and large companies adopt integration technologies. In doing so, the parameters that can be used to explain the adoption of integration technologies in organizations are identified, as nature of organisations, company size, integration needs and time. These are tested through four case studies: a large organization and three SMEs