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The Role of Emotions in Sales Promotions: Influences of Anxiety and Sadness on Product Evaluations: An Abstract
Consumers are being bombarded by sales promotions aimed at persuading them to purchase and purchase now. Since promotions are costly, marketers aim to design effective and persuasive promotional tools. Promoti...
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Correction to: Assessing Video Ad Performance Through Observation of Facial Expressions: An Abstract
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Erratum to: Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises
Erratum to: L.M. Camarinha-Matos and H. Afsarmanesh (Eds.) Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35577-1
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Production Planning and Control in a Virtual Enterprise
The Production Planning and Control system (PPC) typically plays a major role among the legacy applications of an enterprise that joins an industrial virtual enterprise environment. The PPC is both the source ...
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A Design Process Model to Support Concurrent Project Development in Networks of SMEs
This paper presents a software infrastructure enabling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), working in the mechanical sector, to cooperate in a distributed engineering environment to dramatically save time and...
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The PRODNET Demonstrator
A complex virtual enterprise scenario involving European and Brazilian enterprises was designed to demonstrate and validate the approach and functionalities of the PRODNET II infrastructure. The processes invo...
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SMEs in the Virtual Enterprise — LOGSME Enables it Support
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are moving in the direction of integrated supply chain systems. With the introduction of virtual enterprises, the SME has an opportunity to join forces with stronger and lar...
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Agent Communication for Scheduling in the Extended Enterprise
In previous work we have proposed how to model enterprise facilities (like factories, warehouses, etc.) in a multi product production/distribution network, capacity management at those facilities, and agents w...
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A Brazilian Case of VE Coordination
The present paper describes the project VIRTEC, the first Brazilian Virtual Organization, which deals with nine technological SMEs from the region of São Carlos city. First, an analysis of the project and its ...
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An Electronic Market Architecture for the Formation of Virtual Enterprises
Economic organisations are facing new challenges due to the proliferation of Electronic Markets where competition and responsiveness are issues that will determine organisation’s economic survival. A Virtual E...
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Supply Chain Management Based on Market Mechanism in Virtual Enterprise
Supply chain management is not always concerned with the optimal solutions in terms of product distribution. Market mechanism solves product distribution problem by allocating the scheduled resources according...
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Definition of a Generic Capability Model for Extended Enterprise design for Manufacture
Information exchange in Extended Enterprise is difficult, as it is rare for two organisations to have a common communication protocol, especially early in the supply relationship. This research develops a gene...
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Virtual Organisations and the Web Site Resource
Virtual organisations often rely heavily on their Web sites. Indeed, Web sites have taken on strategic importance within such organisations as the dependence on face-to-face communication and physical location...
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The Virtual Enterprise Concept
Among the multiple definitions for the Virtual Enterprise concept, the significance of two key elements: networking and cooperation, becomes clear. The lack of a unified definition is partially resulted by the...
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Further Developments in Virtual Enterprises
The area of virtual enterprises is still very young. Although considerable results have been achieved in terms of modeling and technological support, a large number of open issues remain as urgent challenges r...
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Communication Infrastructure Requirements in a VE
This chapter presents the general communication infrastructure requirements, considering the operation of enterprises in the context of Virtual Enterprises (VE). A VE is grounded on a distributed system based ...
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The PRODNET Goals and Approach
The PRODNET II initiative has designed and implemented an open infrastructure to support industrial virtual enterprises with special focus on the needs of small and medium size enterprises. The design goals, t...
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Step Support for Virtual Enterprises
Product information is an essential production factor for virtual enterprises especially in all design and manufacturing processes. The efficient use of this production factor can be measured by its availabili...
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Product Data Management
One task in the PRODNET II project was the realization of a Product Data Technology concept based on a neutral approach. For the management of product data PDM (Product Data Management) systems are increasingl...
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Implementing Internet Enabled Virtual Enterprises Using Collaborative Agents
This paper presents the development of a Collaborative Agent System Architecture (CASA) and an Infrastructure for Collaborative Agent Systems (ICAS). Initially being proposed as a general architecture for Inte...
