Agostinho, CarlosČerný, JaroslavJardim-Gonçalves, Ricardo2020-06-222020-06-222012978-3-642-33067-4978-3-642-33068-11865-1348PURE: 17421512PURE UUID: 4a3dd3ec-4d79-448d-9eaf-454285033ffdScopus: 84866667366WOS: 000390948000014http://hdl.handle.net/10362/99755Nowadays, more and more enterprises realize that one important step to success in their business is to create new and innovative products. Many times the solution to do that is to abandon the idea of an enterprise as an "isolated island", and get collaboration with others: worldwide non-hierarchical networks are characterized by collaboration and non-centralized decision making. This paper proposes a conceptual model common to the entire business network, in a framework that enables the abstraction of individual models at their meta-level and increase language independency and interoperability, keeping all the enterprise software's integrity intact. The strategy presented allows an incremental mapping construction, to achieve growing integration.151247970engEnterprise InteroperabilityLanguage Independent Information ModelsMDAMDEModel and Data TransformationsModel-MorphismsManagement Information SystemsControl and Systems EngineeringBusiness and International ManagementInformation SystemsModelling and SimulationInformation Systems and Managementconference object10.1007/978-3-642-33068-1_14https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84866667366