Common user- and business requirements demand the combined use of the multitude of available information resources as well as seamless cooperation in terms of aligned (business) processes. In the work at hand an innovative approach is developed that enables integration and interoperability of arbitrary resources or process steps based on a matching of their model representations. To achieve this goal the concepts of metamodels and ontologies are combined in a generic architecture that is referred to as METON. This architecture ensures the identification of equivalent or similar resources and...