This state-of-the-art paper is intended to set the scene for a special issue of the Computers
in Industry Journal on “Future Perspectives on Next Generation Enterprise Information …

Today, and for the foreseeable future, organizations will face ever-increasing levels of
complexity and uncertainty. Many believe that enterprise architecture (EA) will help …

World-wide markets are becoming increasingly competitive, and in order to sustain market
share organisations are developing a customer-oriented approach for designing and …

The paper presents the basic concepts of GERAM (generic enterprise reference architecture
and methodology) developed recently by the IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for …

Next-generation manufacturing enterprises need to be sensing, smart and sustainable to be
competitive:'sensing'refers to context awareness at internal and external levels;'smart'refers …

Enterprise modelling is the process of building models of whole or part of an enterprise (eg
process models, data models, resource models, new ontologies, etc.) from knowledge about …

Supply chain integration (SCI) is a competitive business approach for enterprises that has
not been implemented as widely as expected in small and medium-sized enterprises …

The paper first takes a look at the state of the art on the overlapping areas of: Enterprise
Modelling, Enterprise Integration/Interoperability, Organisational Learning and Knowledge …

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

Virtual enterprise integration is the task of improving the performance of a temporary alliance
of globally distributed independent enterprises that participate in the different phases of the …