Interoperability in Collaborative Processes: Requirements Characterisation and Proof Approach

Interoperability problems which can occur during the collaboration between several enterprises can endanger this collaboration. Consequently, it is necessary to become able to anticipate these problems. The proposed approach in this paper is based on the specification of properties, representing interoperability requirements, and their analysis on enterprise models. Due to the conceptual limits of existing modeling languages, formalizing these requirements and intending to translate them under the form of properties need to add conceptual enrichments to these languages. Finally, the analysis of the properties on enriched enterprise models, by formal checking techniques, aims to provide tools allowing to reasoning on enterprise models in order to detect interoperability problems, from an anticipative manner.