Systems integration processes need to become more efficient and effective in order to allow enterprises to be nimbler and more responsive in today's dynamic markets. Systems integration typically depends on data exchange standards (DESes) and the associated DES usage specification that provides precise standard implementation requirements. However, there are significant inefficiencies in DES usage specification management today. Therefore, to achieve the objective of more responsive enterprises, DES usage specification management, particularly reuse, needs to advance. The Core Component Technical Specification carries the promise to advance the reuse by introducing the notions of Core Components (CCs), as DES building blocks, and Business Information Entities (BIEs), as DES usage specification. While the CCs idea has been successfully implemented in industry DES, the BIEs idea has been implemented only in a basic form, falling short of enabling the BIE reuse to its full potential. To realize the full potential of the BIE reuse, BIE development in industry standard usage needs to utilize the notion of business context better. In this paper, we reviewed existing business context models including UN/CEFACT Context Model (UCM), Enhanced UCM (E-UCM), and Business Context Ontology (BCOnt) and found that they were promising tools to improve the effectiveness of the BIE development and reuse. In addition to that contribution, this research took a closer look at E-UCM in particular. Two novel assessment criteria called expressiveness and effectiveness were defined. Using an industry use case and the two assessments, we showed short-comings of E-UCM such as semantic ambiguity and business rule disconnection. From there, improvements were outlined for future work to device them into E-UCM to enable a more efficient and effective BIE development and reuse process.

系统集成流程需要变得更加高效和有效，以使企业能够在当今动态的市场中变得更加灵活和响应更快。系统集成通常取决于数据交换标准 (DES) 和相关的 DES 使用规范，这些规范提供了精确的标准实施要求。然而，当今的 DES 使用规范管理存在显着的低效率。因此，为了实现企业响应速度更快的目标，DES 使用规范管理，特别是重用，需要推进。核心组件技术规范承诺通过引入核心组件 (CC) 作为 DES 构建块和业务信息实体 (BIE) 的概念作为 DES 使用规范来推进重用。虽然 CCs 理念已在工业 DES 中成功实施，但 BIE 理念仅以基本形式实施，未能充分发挥 BIE 重用的潜力。为了充分发挥 BIE 重用的潜力，行业标准使用中的 BIE 开发需要更好地利用业务上下文的概念。在本文中，我们回顾了现有的业务上下文模型，包括 UN/CEFACT 上下文模型 (UCM)、增强型 UCM (E-UCM) 和业务上下文本体 (BCOnt)，发现它们是提高 BIE 开发效率的有希望的工具和重用。除了这一贡献之外，本研究还特别仔细研究了 E-UCM。定义了两个新的评估标准，称为表现力和有效性。使用一个行业用例和两个评估，我们展示了 E-UCM 的缺点，例如语义模糊和业务规则脱节。从那里开始，概述了未来工作的改进，将它们安装到 E-UCM 中，以实现更高效和有效的 BIE 开发和重用过程。