Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building International Consensus

✍ Scribed by Kurt Kosanke (auth.), Kurt Kosanke, Roland Jochem, James G. Nell, Angel Ortiz Bas (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Series: IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing 108
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The international initiative on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration (EI3-IC) had the objective to increase both international consen­ sus (IC) and public awareness on enterprise integration. In these proceedings we intend to present the current status in inter- and intra-organisational inte­ gration for electronic commerce and thereby to further increase awareness and consensus within academia and industry about enterprise inter-and intra­ organisational integration. The conference proceedings contain the papers presented at the ICEIMT conference in Valencia, Spain, selected papers presented at the different workshops and three papers on the initiative itself: overview, history and results. The proceedings follow the conference structure with each section (Parts 2 to 5) starting with the workgroup reports, followed by a particular view on the section theme and additional papers either presented at the con­ ference or during the related workshop. Section editorials discuss the differ­ ent contributions. As stated in the paper by Nell and Goranson in section 1 the results from all workshops indicate the important role of business processes in the area of e-commerce and virtual enterprises. Sharing relevant knowledge between co­ operating partners and making it available for decision support at all levels of management and across organisational boundaries will significantly en­ hance the trust between the partners on the different levels of partner opera­ tions (strategy, policy, operation and transaction). Clearly business process modelling can significantly enhance establishment, operation and decom­ mission of the required collaboration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
EI3-IC Overview....Pages 3-6
ICEIMT: History and Challenges....Pages 7-14
Accomplishments of the ICEIMT’02....Pages 15-23
Enterprise Modelling and Integration....Pages 25-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-36
A Merged Future for Knowledge Management and Enterprise Modeling....Pages 37-50
Anchoring Knowledge in Business-Process Models to support Interoperability of Virtual Organizations....Pages 51-60
Managing Processes and Knowledge in Inter-Organisational Environments....Pages 61-70
Ontologies and their Role in Knowledge Management and E-Business Modelling....Pages 71-82
Semantic Bridging of Independent Enterprise Ontologies....Pages 83-90
Active Knowledge Models and Enterprise Knowledge Management....Pages 91-99
Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology....Pages 101-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
Agents and Advanced Virtual Enterprises: Needs and an Approach....Pages 113-125
Virtual Enterprise Planning Methods and Concepts....Pages 127-134
Quality of Virtual Enterprise Reference Models....Pages 135-146
The Business Process (Quiet) Revolution....Pages 147-158
Enterprise Architecture and Systems Engineering....Pages 159-166
Proposal of a Reference Framework for Manufacturing Systems Engineering....Pages 167-176
The Users View of Enterprise Integration and the Enterprise Process Architecture....Pages 177-182
Matching Teams to Business Processes....Pages 183-194
Analysis of Perceptions of Personnel at Organisational Levels on the Integration of Product, Functional and Process Orientations....Pages 195-203
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
Challenges to Multi-Enterprise Integration....Pages 205-216
Practices in Knowledge Management in Small and Medium Firms....Pages 217-224
Component-Based Automotive Production Systems....Pages 225-234
The MISSION Project....Pages 235-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
System Requirements: Products, Processes and Models....Pages 245-252
Ontologies as a New Cost Factor in Enterprise Integration....Pages 253-263
From Integration to Collaborative Business....Pages 265-271
Enterprise Interoperability: A Standardisation View....Pages 273-282
Interoperability of Standards to Support Application Integration....Pages 283-294
MultiView Program Status: Data Standards for the Integrated Digital Environment....Pages 295-301
Workflow Quality of Service....Pages 303-311
Improving PDM Systems Integration Using Software Agents....Pages 313-324
Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Electronic Commerce....Pages 325-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-336
Steps in Enterprise Modelling....Pages 337-345
New Support Technologies for Enterprise Integration....Pages 347-358
Some Methodological Clues for Defining a Unified Enterprise Modelling Language....Pages 359-369
Common Representation through UEML — Requirements and Approach....Pages 371-379
UML Semantics Representation of Enterprise Modelling Constructs....Pages 381-387
Language Semantics....Pages 389-397
Modelling of Distributed Business Processes....Pages 399-405
Front Matter....Pages 335-336
Needs and Characteristics of Methodologies for Enterprise Integration....Pages 407-415
Argumentation for Explicit Representation of Control within Enterprise Modelling and Integration....Pages 417-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-426

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); e-Commerce/e-business; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Organization/Planning; Management/Business for Professionals