Ontology development is considered to be a useful approach to the design and
implementation of interoperable systems. This literature review and commentary examines …

Improving efficiency in the plant construction process and providing valid resulting plant
models requires a technology that validates planning and data exchange formats for plant …

Despite their business value and return on investment, multi-enterprise integration projects
are unbearably costly for many companies. With a view to realizing lower integration costs …

Agent-oriented approach has proven to be very efficient in engineering complex distributed
software environments with dynamically changing conditions. The efficiency of underlying …

Modern decentralized industrial applications demand the design of application-independent
solutions for monitoring and diagnostics systems (MDSs) that exhibit a high degree of …

Modern production plants need novel information and knowledge management approaches
and services to support operation and maintenance decision making. With existing …

Rising prices for natural resources and an increased ecological awareness require systems
to monitor the resource efficiency of industrial plants. Manufacturing trends impose …

With the recent developments in the cellular world, the high-end mobile phones and PDAs
are becoming pervasive and are being used in different application domains. Integration of …

The web and associated data have been around before the advent of big data and its
related concepts. The semantic web refers to a Web of Data consisting of all sorts of data …

In process industries especially, there is a growing acceptance of a domain-specific view in
which business units within organizations are seen as an organ-ized whole, functioning and …