Remander: Call for chapter proposals: E-Business Interoperability

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009 Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges A book edited by Dr. Ejub Kajan State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=681 Introduction Recently, the new expansion of EC is taking place, especially in the form of B2B. The main goal of B2B is to provide business entities with the ability to establish business relationships in such a manner that their public business processes may interact with each other exchanging their data. In a business scenario, business entities are usually loosely coupled; that means business processes require ad hoc integration from time to time. Such integration on demand may experience many conflicts. Problems arise due to the huge heterogeneity between business processes and data involved, which are both different by nature on the one side and on the other side between underlying IT technologies, which are different by default. Many efforts have been devoted to overcoming interoperability problems of any kind, but they have not reached their promise yet. Instead of unlimited interoperability inside and between business entities, the result was too many mutually incompatible “standa!null