SOLVING INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS ON A FEDERATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS SYSTEMS

Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer, Med-Amine Mostefai

2004

Abstract

Software process components that share information and that cooperate for common tasks lead to multiple problems of interoperability. Some based-interoperability approaches have been proposed. However, more problems remain to be solved to enable the heterogeneous process components interoperability at execution level. This paper presents a process-based approach (architecture) for the federation of software process systems. Based on this approach, we focus on its implementation problems for the process execution interoperability. We show how we solve these problems and we discuss their implementation through the main development techniques of distributed applications.

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Ahmed-Nacer M. and Mostefai M. (2004). SOLVING INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS ON A FEDERATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 591-594. DOI: 10.5220/0002639805910594


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer and Med-Amine Mostefai},
title={SOLVING INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS ON A FEDERATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={591-594},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002639805910594},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - SOLVING INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS ON A FEDERATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Ahmed-Nacer M.
AU - Mostefai M.
PY - 2004
SP - 591
EP - 594
DO - 10.5220/0002639805910594