Business Process Fusion based on Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented Business Applications Athanasios Bouras 1 — Panagiotis Gouvas 1 — Andreas Friesen 2 — Stelios Pantelopoulos 3 — Spiros Alexakis 4 — Gregoris Mentzas 1 1 Information Management Unit, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems of the National Technical University of Athens 9, Iroon Polytechniou str., 157 80 Zografou, Athens, Greece {bouras, pgouv, gmentzas}@mail.ntua.gr, 2 SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany andreas.friesen@sap.com 3 Singular Software SA Al.Panagouli & Siniosoglou, 142 34, N.Ionia, Attica – Greece spantel@singular.gr 4 CAS Software AG Wilhelm-Schickard-Str. 10-12, D-76131 Karlsruhe spiros.alexakis@cas.de ABSTRACT: European enterprises, which contain several heterogeneous systems, create fuzzy networks of interconnected applications, services and data sources, and cooperate with international partners in the enlarged Europe, need holistic Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) solutions in order to operate their e-business effectively. The FUSION project aims to promote efficient business collaboration and interconnection between enterprises (including SMEs) by developing innovative technologies for the semantic fusion of heterogeneous service-oriented business applications. Such applications may exist either within an enterprise or in several collaborating companies within the enlarged Europe. This paper presents the vision and technical architecture of the FUSION IST project KEY WORDS: Enterprise Application Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture, Semantic Web Services, Semantic-enriched Service-oriented Business Applications, Business Process Fusion