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The FUSION approach proposes both a conceptual framework and a system architecture that supports the composition of business processes using semantically annotated web services as bui/ding bloch. Results will be validated by supporting collaborative commercial proo/:orconcept pilots. The FUSION approach willfacilitate trans-national pilot cases having operations spanning the enlarged Europe. in particular: integration of transactions of a franchising .firm, provision of career and human resource management services, collaboration of companies in a chain of schools of /iJreign languages. The paper provides an overview on the FUSION approach and illustrates how it can be applied on one of the pilot cases.