1 Introduction. - 2 The concept of enterprise integration. - 3 The needs of the field of integration. - 4 State-of-the-art on models architectures and methodologies. - 5 Some important articles about enterprise integration. - 6 A summary of the CIMOSA reference architecture. - 7 The GRAI-GIM reference model architecture and methodology. - 8 An overview of PERA. - 8. 1 A structure for PERA. - 9 Introduction to the evaluation methods used. - 10 Evaluation questionnaires. - 11 Evaluation questionnaires for CIMOSA. - 12 Evaluation questionnaire for GRAI-GIM. - 13 Evaluation questionnaire for PERA. - 14 Analysis of questionnaire results. - 15 Short form evaluation questionnaire. - 16 Techniques to map the architectures directly against one another. - 17 Mappings against a matrix. - 18 General observations in comparing candidate architectures. - 19 Conclusions and summary of findings. - 20 Recommendations for future work. - Appendix A The background of the Task Force. - 1. 1 Background IFAC/IFIP Task Force. - 1. 2 Some observations made at the earliest workshop meeting. - 1. 3 Scope and work program for the Task Force. - 1. 4 Suggested products of the Task Force. - 1. 5 Immediate work program. - 1. 6 Requirements for a Reference Architecture to be used as a set of evaluation criteria. - Appendix B Members of the Task Force. Language: English