An Initiative for International Consensus on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration

The initiative is aimed on building international consensus on enterprise integration and is carried out in five-year intervals. The third initiative focused on virtual enterprises and in particular on aspects of enterprise engineering, relations between knowledge management and business process modelling, the issue of interoperability of business processes and models and the needs of common model representation. The roles of ontology and agent technologies have been addressed as potential solutions for the current issues in enterprise integration. Four workshops with international experts discussed the different issues and developed proposals for solutions of the issues identified. Workshop results were presented at the International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technologies (ICEIMT’02) and are published in the proceedings of the initiative. The paper summarises the results of the initiative including some details from the four workshops and provides an outlook on future activities resulting from the initiative.