Because of the current trend of integration and interoperability of industrial systems, their
size and complexity continue to grow making it more difficult to analyze, to understand and …

Distributed environments, technological evolution, outsourcing market and information
technology (IT) are factors that considerably influence current and future industrial …

Globalisation of the manufacturing and service industry has increased complexity of the flow
of materials and goods, magnified dependency on the underlying network, and made the …

The development of information and communication technologies and turbulent market
conditions have forced enterprises to adapt their way of undertaking business, from …

Maintenance manuals include general methods and procedures for industrial maintenance
and they contain information about principles of maintenance methods. Particularly, Non …

Innovation and agility should be provided to businesses by efficient collaboration (ie,
communication and sharing) between them. However, semantic heterogeneity between …

Background Healthcare organisations are undergoing a major transformational shift in the
use of information and digital health technologies. Enterprise architecture (EA) has been …

This paper introduces the principles of a unified language devoted to the area of
competence-based enterprise modelling. The language, named UECML, for Unified …

Networked manufacturing enterprises need a wider support from external manufacturing
resources. This paper proposes a promising service to use web-based extended …

Resources in virtual organizations are classified based on their local taxonomies. However,
heterogeneity between these taxonomies is a serious problem for efficient cooperation …