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In order for future enterprises to make effective use of the Future Internet, it is necessary that their Enterprise Architecture aligns with the Future Internet Architecture. An Enterprise Architecture is a comprehensive architecture description that spans enterprise and technology aspects, to allow understanding and analysis of relevant enterprise properties. As such, it is an important instrument to plan processes and resources that are involved in realizing the goals of the enterprise. The Future Internet Architecture comprises a set of design principles and a structure of components and their relationships that together underlie the construction of a ‘better’ Internet, featuring among others the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services. This workshop targets models and mechanisms that make an Enterprise Architecture Future Internet-enabled, extending it in such a way that Future Internet features can be exploited. In particular, we target dynamic enterprise collaborations with changing partnerships to fulfil emerging customer needs, using real-time monitoring information for decision-making and optimization. Important modelling and analysis goals of an Enterprise Architecture in this context include interoperability, flexibility, trustability, profitability, sustainability, and adaptability.

One of the key aspects of the Future Internet is the Internet of Services, where companies are envisioned to sell and purchase services online in a dynamic fashion. A typical future scenario would be that companies form so-called ad-hoc business networks on the Future Internet to be able to collaborate together with a common goal of gaining value as a group. However, in order for these ad-hoc business networks to communicate and exchange services with each other they must be interoperable. This paper proposes architecture modeling and interoperability analysis as support functions in the ad-hoc business networks service life cycle.

Enterprise interoperability is a tool for enhancing the competitiveness of firms, and its importance is brought out by the fact one of the EC’s strategic aims is to accomplish interoperability among European firms by the year 2010. Nevertheless, in the particular case of the Valencian Region (Spain), research into enterprise interoperability is still badly structured, fragmented, overlapping and, in many cases, practically non-existent. The INTERVAL project has been set up in an attempt to solve this problem. The scheme plans to carry out a series of initiatives aimed at integrating research activities and applying them to the complicated Valencian business sector. By so doing these companies would benefit from the application of knowledge created specifically for them and adapted to fit their characteristics. In this paper we present the details of the project, including its goals, aims, activities, results achieved, the methodology used to accomplish them, the economic and/or technological advantages, as well as possible applications and future lines of research.