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E-business integration is a vision we have developed over a long period of time. As we have worked in business practice for many years prior to and in parallel with our academic research, we have always thought of such - tegration not only as an intellectual challenge but also as a real business tool. Consequently, when we started our project on Ontologies-based R- onciliation for Business Integration (ORBI) in 2004, not only pure science but also business objectives were at the center of our research. We were very happy to be able to form a project consortium that consisted not only of renowned researchers but also of experienced business practitioners from a range of companies. Each played a specific role – as user, provider or co-developer of the application components that are based on the me- ods we have developed. So may this book find its way not only to the desks of researchers and students, but also into the offices and minds of business practitioners worldwide who are dealing with the challenge of integrating their business processes, applications and information. This book is, in the most general sense, about understanding each other – that is, what we do and think. Needless to say, within the project itself, and its environment, we had many opportunities to apply this underlying philosophy. In the end, the results prove it was worth the effort.

电子商务集成是我们长期以来发展的一个愿景。由于我们在学术研究之前和同时从事商业实践多年，我们一直认为这种整合不仅是一种智力挑战，而且是一种真正的商业工具。因此，当我们在2004年开始基于本体的业务集成协作（ORBI）项目时，不仅纯科学而且业务目标都是我们研究的中心。我们很高兴能够成立一个项目联合体，不仅由著名的研究人员组成，还包括来自一系列公司的经验丰富的商业从业者。每个人都扮演着特定的角色——作为基于我们开发的me-ods的应用程序组件的用户、提供者或共同开发者。因此，希望这本书不仅适用于研究人员和学生的办公桌，也适用于世界各地的商业从业者的办公室和头脑，他们正在应对整合业务流程、应用程序和信息的挑战。从最普遍的意义上讲，这本书是关于相互理解的——也就是说，我们所做的和所想的。不用说，在项目本身及其环境中，我们有很多机会应用这一基本理念。最后，结果证明这是值得的努力。