Objective
Increasing collaboration among enterprises during the entire product lire cycle is a global trend; Organizations are transforming themselves into "networked organizations". To achieve this, enterprise systems and applications need to be interoperable in order to achieve seamless business interaction across organizational boundaries. Currently, enterprises face many difficulties related to lack of interoperability. Interoperability, defined as "the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged", needs to be addressed in respect of all layers of an enterprise (including ICT Systems, Knowledge, Business and Semantics). It needs to be tackled using a holistic perspective, a multi-disciplinary approach, and by bringing together the best research teams, industry expertise and ICT suppliers.
ATHENA aims to be the most comprehensive and systematic European research initiative in IT to remove barriers to interoperability, to transfer and apply the research results in industrial sectors, and to foster a new- networked business culture. Building on its vision statement "By 2010, enterprises will be able to seamlessly interoperate with others", ATHENA aims to enable interoperability by providing a comprehensive Interoperability Framework. In ATHENA, Research and Development will be executed in synergy and collaboration with Community Building: research will be guided by business requirements defined by a broad range of industrial sectors and integrated into Piloting and Training. ATHENA will be a source of technical inventions for interoperability. It will also lead to prototypes, technical specifications, guidelines and best practices that form a common European repository of knowledge.
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69190 WALLDORF
Germany
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Participants (24)
46980 PATERNA - VALENCIA
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48034 SOUTHFIELD MI
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86167 AUGSBURG
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76131 KARLSRUHE
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10043 ORBASSANO (TO)
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00185 ROMA
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67663 KAISERSLAUTERN
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75016 PARIS
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11000 BEOGRAD
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80686 MUENCHEN
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48170 ZAMUDIO
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10090 CASCINE VICA, RIVOLI
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PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE
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77305 FONTAINEBLEAU CEDEX
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19002 PEANIA
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92100 BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT
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80333 MUNCHEN
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7034 TRONDHEIM
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86165 AUGSBURG
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1366 LYSAKER
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20126 MILANO
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2829-516 CAPARICA
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9000 ST GALLEN
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33405 TALENCE
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