The „Workshop on Modeling Inter-Organizational Systems focusing on Collaboration and Interoperability (MIOS)" took place in conjunction with the conference OTM 2006 in Montpellier (France) from 31^st October - 01^st November 2006.

The workshop - organized in co-operation with the working group - offered the participants a comprehend topic spectrum around the collaboration and interoperability interplant information systems.

Topics of the event were amongst others:

• Modeling cross-enterprise business processes
• Reference models for cross-enterprise business processes
• Collaboration theories (e.g., the language-action-perspective)
• Enterprise ontologies
• Ontology-based business interactions
• Enterprise branche specific ontologies
• Enterprise architectures
• Cross-enterprise workflow management
• Business rules and business protocols
• Business protocols standards
• Deriving IOS from cross-enterprise business processes
• Information system ontologies
• Information system architectures
• Component-based system development
• Business components and metamodeling
• Ontology-oriented web services (Pragmatic Web)
• Interoperability testing and verification
• Methodological standards
• Business domain standards, e.g., accounting, billing, payment, SCM, purchasing