A large portfolio of modeling tools and theories, developed in different disciplines, have a
good applicability potential in collaborative networks. A brief survey of those promising …

The evolution of manufacturing systems is triggered by the dynamic customer environment
of its time. The main characteristics of today's customers' environment are mass …

A growing number of collaborative networked organizations can be found in industry,
services, and research. However, the lack of a reference model that could synthesize and …

Abstract The use of Enterprise Architectures is becoming increasingly widespread in the
private sector. Borrowing insights from enterprise reference architectures developed during …

Zusammenfassung Die effiziente Gestaltung, Einführung und Realisierung von
kundenorientierten Informationssystemen ist mittlerweile in nahezu allen Branchen zu …

The key focus in the 1990s for manufacturers of capital equipment and high-value goods
has been to optimize their responsiveness to customer requirements without compromising …

Since the early 1970s, production planning systems have evolved from material
requirements planning (MRP) through manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) into …

In order to stay competitive and avoid being smashed by large companies, small-and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to establish and manage dynamic and non …

This paper investigates the voltage–amplitude response of superharmonic resonance of
second order (order two) of alternating current (AC) electrostatically actuated …

In this article a general business process architecture is presented, which is based on the
Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) and which is composed of the four …