Towards EI as a science: Considerations and points of view

Abstract

Enterprise Interoperability (EI) is a well established applied research area, studying the problems related with the lack of interoperability in the organizations, and proposing novel methods and frameworks to contribute with innovative solutions for EI problems. However, in spite of the research developed so far, nowadays it was not established yet the scientific foundations for EI. This is a deficit recognized by the EI research community, disabling the generalization and complete reuse of the methods and tools that have been developed. Among the scientific domains recognized by the international community the following subjects were identified by the authors to be within those that might contribute for the EI scientific foundations: system complexity, network science, information and web science. This paper presents considerations and the authors points of view in this context towards EI as a science.