Agility is the competitive advantage in the global manufacturing environment. It is believed
that the agility can be realized by dynamically reconfigurable virtual enterprise. However, the …

Rising product variety and complexity, shorter time frames to respond, and the continual
need to gain new capabilities through innovativeness force the trend of outsourcing to be …

Agility is an important requirement for successful organizations in periods of market
turbulence and largely unpredictable socio-economic changes. Agility in a virtual enterprise …

Agility is an important requirement for successful organizations in periods of market
turbulence and unpredictable socio-economic changes. Agility in a virtual enterprise …

When designing an IT platform aimed at supporting industrial virtual enterprises (VEs),
certain issues related to information management requirements become especially …

The concept of virtual enterprise is promoted by the current market and economic conditions
worldwide, and facilitated by the recent developments in both information and …

This paper presents an approach on how the cooperation among autonomous agents can
be properly supported and enhanced by a federated database when supporting a …

A virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance of enterprises and is created to share the core
resources owned by the partners in the virtual enterprise. In creating a virtual enterprise for a …

We propose a method to address the current lack of standards for both software product line
variability modeling languages and their formal semantics. It allows specifying, in an agile …

Abstract The Information Technology (IT) subsystem as a component and enabler of the
business' information system (IS), is a critical core element of the infrastructure of any …