Knowledge-Based EAI for the Dynamic Integration of Collaborative Business Processes

Today’s economic situation can be characterized by increasingly changing demands from the markets to the companies leading to shorter product life-cycles in conjunction with cost-reductions. One of the strategical reactions of the companies is to enforce mutual collaboration. Hence collaborative business processes are the basis to establish such a collaboration on the process layer. The integraton of theses processes nearly in real-time is one today’s peculiar challenges. In the following a concept is described, that enables the dynamic interconnection of collaborative business-processes based upon a knowledge-based EAI.