Abstract. In this paper we present results from the ATHENA Integrated Project in defining the ATHENA Interoperability Framework (AIF) for enterprise applications and software systems. The AIF provides a compound framework and associated reference architecture for capturing the research elements and solutions to interoperability issues that address the problem in a holistic way. The AIF also provides an associated methodological framework which describes the approach towards interoperability from the decision to evaluate collaboration until solution maintenance, and the reference guidelines for the adoption of the reference architecture.

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This paper describes a new scientific and industrially pro,•en approach to process design, workflow development and deployment and knowledge, information and IT solutions transfer. The new approach is made possible by process oriented methods and thinking, the development of Active Knowledge Models, the rapidly growing availability of workflow methods and tools on the world-wide web(www) and recent advances in collaborative networking.The paper introduces and defines the four structural flows of process, a classification of process hierarchies with characteristic properties, their common Flow Logic, how the Flow Logic is the multi-dimensional net (neural net) for Active Knowledge Models, how processes are mutually descriptive (reflective knowledge) and finally how process design, workflow development and enactment can be achieved and implemented using a holistic approach.

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