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Interoperability Issues in Metamodelling Platforms

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Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications

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Metamodelling platforms are getting more and more base technology, therefore interoperability of metamod-elling platforms becomes a crucial aspect in managing corpo-rations’ knowledge assets. This paper describes a generic metamodelling platform architecture and presents an overview of interoperability issues according to conceptual domains in metamodelling platform architectures. Some of these issues are illustrated by a case study from the insurance sector. The collection of interoperability issues can serve as a starting point to stimulate further research on interoperability prob-lems in the metamodelling platform domain.

This work is partially supported by the Commission of the European Communities under the sixth framework programme (INTEROP Network of Excellence, Contract No 508011, <http://www.interop-noe.org>).

This research has been partly funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture, and the European Social Fund (ESF) under grant 31.963/46-VII/9/2002.

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  1. Platform Development, BOC Information Systems GmbH, Rabensteig 2, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Harald Kühn

  2. Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (WIT), Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Marion Murzek

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Kühn, H., Murzek, M. (2006). Interoperability Issues in Metamodelling Platforms. In: Konstantas, D., Bourrières, JP., Léonard, M., Boudjlida, N. (eds) Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-152-0_20

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