Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: Sehr gut, Technical University of Berlin (Fakultat IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik), language: English, abstract: The last two decades have shown a major shift from stand-alone to networked information technology (IT) systems. Consequently, the effective and efficient achievement of interoperability is a key factor to enable seamless business process chains and networks across intra- and inter-organizational boundaries. Thereby, interoperability can be understood...