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Interoperability Improvement in Inter-Enterprises Collaboration: A Software Engineering Approach

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Enterprise Interoperability VI

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The present research work aims at developing an approach to reach inter-enterprise interoperability and to test its achievement using practices from the software engineering process. Four fundamental activities are identified in the software process: software specification, software development, software validation and software evolution [1]. In this work, interoperability requirements are specified by representing interoperability problems directly on business process models. For the validation activity, an interoperability testing sub-process is defined based on this new form of interoperability requirements specification. It is also demonstrated that the improvement proposed in software specification activity will have positive impact on the software development activity.

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  1. LIRT/ESP, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Génie Informatique ESP-UCAD, BP: 5085 dakar-fann, Dakar, Senegal

    Mamadou Samba Camara & Bacary Mané

  2. University of Bordeaux, IMS, UMR 5218, 33400, Talence, France

    Rémy Dupas & Yves Ducq

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  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

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Camara, M.S., Dupas, R., Ducq, Y., Mané, B. (2014). Interoperability Improvement in Inter-Enterprises Collaboration: A Software Engineering Approach. In: Mertins, K., Bénaben, F., Poler, R., Bourrières, JP. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VI. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04948-9_17

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