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Currently, several enterprise architecture frameworks exist, and there is a need to be able to communicate about them. To this end we have proposed an Architecture Framework Ontology (AFO) providing characteristics to be assigned to the framework under consideration. AFO is then used to characterise and compare six existing frameworks, and results from this task are presented.

Enterprise processes are characterised to specify a conceptual model of MEs. The model is developed, with reference to processes classes, resource system types, product flows, and organisational views, so as to exemplify general interoperability needs and to highlight deficiencies in current EM and EI provision. One significant deficiency relates to modelling human resources. Hence ME enhancements are proposed centred on the coherent modeling of human systems and enterprise processes.

In this paper we investigate the development of an appropriate business model associated with B2B transactions, designed according to the newly introduced ebXML standards. We explain the added value of such business model in complement to the more technical models defined by ebXML. In particular we explain the importance of achieving a better definition of the economic value associated with a B2B transaction. Together with the proposed business model ontology we also introduce a tool for supporting its management as well as a simulation tool for supporting decision making between different models.

Building a better team focuses on the need for efficient teamwork in order to maximize project or business process success. The paper first investigates what constitutes a team environment, and then, puts forward an educational model/framework in order to better foster a team environment. By using the ARTS tool, businesses and/ or project teams can develop evaluative and visual aids to build a more efficient team.

The focus of this paper is to adopt an interdisciplinary approach of the education system’s strategic planning process, by drawing insights and critically evaluating the possibility of applying a mechanistic view of the work force development inspired from the vast and numerous literature of supply chain management. The outcome of the study is a proposed high-level reference model for Human Supply Chain (HSC) integration.

This article presents a work in progress, which aims at associating a systemic reference modeling approach with formal verification concepts in order to improve the user’s toolbox concerning risk analysis. This approach is here applied to a manufacturing process.

Knowledge Provenance (KP) is proposed to address the problem about how to determine the validity and origin of information/knowledge on the web by means of modeling and maintaining information sources and dependencies as well as trust structures. Four levels of KP are introduced: Static, Dynamic, Uncertain, and Judgmental. In order to give a formal and explicit specification for the fundamental concepts of KP, a static KP ontology is defined in this paper.

This paper proposes an object model for planning and scheduling integration in system development on discrete manufacturing. The model can deal with frequent changes of the market much more agile than the traditional models for production management. In addition, the object model can be translated to another model, which additionally has table, property and data type objects for automatic translation to a RDB schema. A modification procedure to adjust it to each case in industries is also described.

Recently, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) has been proposed to take into account the development of large software systems, such as B2B applications on the Internet. However, before this becomes a reality, some issues need solutions, such as the definition of various Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) and also automatic transformation between these domain languages representing business concerns and those offering platform executability. In this paper, we provide some insights into transformation between some specific DSL particularly relevant to Business-to-Business (B2B) applications.

This paper develops a research framework to investigate measures of enterprise integration. In our view the term enterprise integration is an umbrella term that incorporates what we term integration types. The integration types are connectivity, information sharing, interoperability, coordination, and alignment. To determine which technology and/or enterprise integration method is best in a given situation we believe measures of integration are needed and must be grounded in empirical findings.