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- Concurrent Engineering, Middleware, Product Development, Virtual Enterprise

Designing and implementing a Knowledge Management System (KMS) in a Virtual Enterprise is a labour intensive and risky task. Solution prototypes (Pilots) are usually built to verify system effectiveness prior to final implementation. The paper proposes a methodology to guide this Pilot specifications definition process. These guidelines support engineers and knowledge experts in collaboratively defining functionalities, services, software components and performance indicators of the prototype. The methodology has been conceived and ...

Im Rahmen der Controllingstudie, die vom VDMA Bayern unterstutzt wird, wurde der Fragestellung der Kooperationen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) in Netzwerken, Verbanden, Interessensgemeinschaften oder virtueller Unternehmen hinsichtlich der Umsetzung strategischer Geschaftsideen, wie z.B. der Erschliesung neuer Markte, aber auch der Steuerung der Kooperationen im operativen Geschaft und der Erfolgssteuerung mittels unterschiedlichster Controllinginstrumente nachgegangen. Dieser Beitrag beinhaltet nun die Auswertung der Studie und gibt einen Ausblick auf das weitere Forschungsvorhaben.

- by Alexander Herzner
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- Supply Chain Management, Political Science, Virtual Enterprise
- by Kulwant Pawar
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- Marketing, Operations Management, Market Design, Product Service System
- by Arturo Molina
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- Business, Engineering, Business Networks, Manufacturing

ABSTRACT Supply chain management (SCM) and virtual enterprise (VE) are concepts that have been adopted world-wide. These concepts encompass a set of managerial, organisational and technological issues focusing on the establishment of partnerships and co-operation among companies with the purpose of achieving competitive advantages and exploiting market opportunities. SCM is based on the idea that companies should run strategically and be holistically integrated with their key suppliers and customers. A VE can be defined as a dynamic and temporary form of co-operation among companies, in which different partners join complementary competencies to exploit a specific business opportunity. Although both models have their peculiarities, they also have some similarities. This article discusses and compares the supply chain (SC) concept, from the standpoint of SCM, with that of the VE, and considers the situation in which a co-operative enterprise, idealised to work as a VE, acquires characteristics of a SC structure. This process of change is analysed and the real case of a VE that became a supply chain is reported.

- by Silvio Roberto Ignácio Pires
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- Logistics, Supply Chain, Mathematical Sciences, Case Study
- by amjad umar
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- Information Retrieval, Middleware, Virtual Enterprise, Client Server
- by Mihaela Ulieru
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- Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Multi Agent System, Collaborative Research
- by Angappa Gunasekaran
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- Marketing, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Literature Review
- by Tom Rando
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- Virtual Enterprise

- by Kamel Ghallawy
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- Distributed Computing, Design Management, Market Design, Concurrent Engineering

Abstract: The proliferation of the Internet has revolutionized the way people work together for business. People located at remote places can collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Although the Internet provides the basic connectivity, researchers all over the world are grappling with the problems of defining; designing and implementing web services that would help people collaborate effectively in virtual teams and enterprises. These problems are exacerbated by a number of issues, such as coordination, ...

- by Pascal Molli
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- Data Sharing, Virtual Enterprise, Business environment, Web Service
- by Yigal Hoffner and +1
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- Workflow Management Systems, Virtual Enterprise, Dynamic Router Configuration protocol, Business Process
- by Amy Trappey
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- Engineering, Information Integration, Value Chain, Internet technology
- by Hector Sanchez
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- Information Retrieval, Cognitive development, Modeling, Localization

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have altered the balance of cost between activities within a firm and activities between firms. Easier co-operation allows companies to focus on their core strengths, while forming relations with other firms to supply the other needed skills to bring a product to market. Design, in one firm or in a consortium, is iterative and does require change. The ability of companies to better manage engineering changes (ECs) during product development can decrease cost, shorten development time, and produce higher quality products.This paper concerns engineering change management (ECM) when product development involves more than one company. A review of ECM related papers finds a lack of those that address multi-company design efforts. This approach is based upon recent work in collaborative engineering, which uses elementary engineering decisions, captured as parameters, to drive the collaboration. The relationship between parameters determines the involvement of suppliers and engineering partners. This allows design partners to be informed early as to the impact of design changes. We describe the use of this approach in simultaneous ECM, its implementation within a product data management (PDM) system, and initial test results. We term this approach as ’intelligent’ because it is based upon knowledge captured in the design process itself.

- by Kamel Rouibah
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- Distributed Computing, Design Management, Market Design, Concurrent Engineering
- by J. Ciurana
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- Concurrent Engineering, Product Design, Mechanism Design, Collaborative Engineering
- by Xavier Boucher
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- Engineering, Supply Chain, Organizational structure, Virtual Enterprise
- by Arturo Molina
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- Virtual Enterprise, Knowledge Technology
- by Alessandro Ricci and +1
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- Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Software Engineering, Intelligent Agent
- by Paul Robinson
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- Web Services, Computer Security, Middleware, Virtual Enterprise
- by Jorge Giraldo
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- Applied Research, Business Model, Virtual Enterprise, Small and Medium Enterprise
- by Morteza Mohammadi Zanjireh
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- Security, Computer Security, Virtual Enterprise, Virtual Enterprises

Coordination infrastructures can be used for the general-purpose support of WfMSs (workflow management systems). Suitably-expressive coordination artifacts can be specialised as workflow engines, encapsulating workflow rules expressed in terms of coordination laws. In this paper, we focus on the issue of inter-organisational workflow (IOW), and show how the issue of multiple, interdependent, distributed workflows requires coordination artifacts to be linkable, so as to create a network of inter-connected coordination flows. After discussing a model of workflow engine based on ReSpecT tuple centres, we introduce a distributed workflow architecture based on TuCSoN, exploiting a logic-based workflow language. In particular, we focus on the definition of a scoping mechanism, and show how this enable workflows to be dynamically governed and distributed upon a coordination infrastructure based on artifact linkability. An example of a VE (virtual enterprise) workflow is finally discussed.

- by Andrea Omicini
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- Modeling, Workflow, Distributed System, Decision support system

Virtual enterprises paradigm represents an important application field for multi-agent approaches, both in terms of modeling and infrastructure development. This article summarizes the main challenges in this field and describes several current Multi-Agent System application approaches. A particular emphasis is given to the creation and operation phases of the virtual enterprise life cycle. Several open challenges in this area are also introduced.

- by Hamideh Afsarmanesh
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- Business, Virtual Communities, Intelligent Agents, Collaborative Networks
- by sonia bergamaschi
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- Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Project Management, Data Management

The digital content of libraries is different from commercial digital products, such as, computer applications, software tools, and computer code or data streams, but they have the same sharing, reproduction and distribution digital properties and similar knowledge management problems. We examine the policies applied to commercial and library digital content. We classify the commercial digital products, according to their use

- by Engin KILIÇ
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- Engineering, Decision Making, Back Propagation, Information Communication Technology
- by Stefan Johansson
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- Computer Science, Intelligent Agents, Intelligent Agent, Interoperability
- by George Kovacs
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- Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Distributed Computing
- by hanning chen
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- Engineering, Risk Management, Mathematical Sciences, Artificial Intelligent
- by Rossella Aiello and +1
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- Risk Management, Life Cycle Management, Virtual Enterprise, Life Cycle
- by Heiko Ludwig
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- Process Control, Quality of Service, Workflow Management Systems, Virtual Enterprise

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