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

The new manufacturing paradigms, such as agile manufacture and lean production, are
leading industrial countries towards the new generation of concurrent enterprises involving …

This paper presents an implemented framework that deals with the high-level of
heterogeneity that a multi-agent scheduling system should tackle when the legacy systems …

Abstract In ESPRIT project PRODNET II, a federated architecture approach is adopted to
support the information management requirements of the VE environment. This approach …

The virtual enterprise paradigm is the key for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to enter
into the business-to-business electronic commerce. Nevertheless SMEs require a reliable …

Abstract In the Virtual Enterprise (VE) paradigm, enterprises must share and exchange a
part of their internal local information in order to interact and cooperate with each other …

Ass described in Chapter 1, e-science applications have many challenging characteristics,,
which make it difficult for scientists to perform their experiments. Several differentt …

Market globalisation and frequently changing customer requirements are forcing
manufacturing enterprises to reconsider how they are organised. On the other hand …

Abstract In Virtual Enterprise (VE) collaborations, enterprises operate as a single unit
sharing their skills, technologies, and costs towards the achievement of a common goal. In …

Abstract The project PRODNET II (Production Planning and Management in an Extended
Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a …