The purpose of this workshop is to provide an open forum to discuss the needs and requirements for higher levels of interoperability within and across a broad spectrum of enterprise and engineering related domains. Through inter-disciplinary dialog, workshop sessions address how to “bridge the chasms” and enable interoperability (e.g. service-level agreements) within and across globally-diverse enterprises and associated disciplines. Thus, the workshop addresses the need to align the legacies and cultures of historically separate domains and disciplines (aka “stovepipes”) that hinder achieving the level of interoperability required for multi-enterprise operations. An initial step towards addressing these challenges requires methods and enterprise services for actively managing the mitigation of otherwise separate concepts, nomenclature, terminology, and jargon. In other words, we consider semantic interoperability to be a key technology enabler for multi-disciplinary integrated product team effectiveness.

New Enterprise Engineering (E2) processes and methodologies are emerging that leverage advances in Model-Based-Systems-Engineering (MBSE), System-Of-Systems-Engineering (SOSE), Cloud Computing, and other practices to help integrate and federate the broad spectrum of interdependent workflows (i.e. business processes, activities, and services) necessary for enterprises to better compete within the globally interconnected ecosystem of such entities. This year’s workshop sessions focus on leveraging organizational leadership and technical experts from among a broad spectrum of E2 related disciplines that we consider critical for implementing and sustaining a more mature globally-interdependent ecosystem of Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />