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Business Context-Based Quality Measures for Data Exchange Standards Usage Specification
Standards-based methods for data exchange are key for Business-to-Business (B2B) integration. However, in the case of small businesses, there are significant barriers to utilizing these methods. One of the rea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Knowledge Representation for Hierarchical and Interconnected Business Contexts
Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message-standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the technique used to represent contextual knowledge. This paper inve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Business Context-Based Approach for Managing the Digitalization of Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain Operational Requirements
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to attention several supply chain challenges in the globalized biopharmaceutical industry. Demand fluctuations and the ability to effectively repurpose manufacturing facilitie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Inter-Operable Enterprise Systems – Graph-Based Validation of a Context-Driven Approach for Message Profiling
Providing the business context has a potential to become a powerful mechanism for the interoperable usage and efficient maintenance of message standards. In the literature, there are multiple techniques for it...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Two-Tiered Database Design Based on Core Components Methodology
The number of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and cloud service implementations are growing rapidly. In the resulting, emerging, cross-industry, cooperative environments, a common understanding of message st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Business-Context-Based Approach for Message Standards Use - A Validation Study
While necessary for a successful integration of enterprise services and business-to-business (B2B) applications, message standards can be difficult to use. This paper proposes an innovative, business-context a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Method for Manufacturing Text Mining Based on Document Clustering and Topic Modeling Techniques
As the volume of online manufacturing information grows steadily, the need for develo** dedicated computational tools for information organization and mining becomes more pronounced. This paper proposes a no...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Paradigm Shift in Smart Manufacturing System Architecture
Smart Manufacturing seeks to integrate advanced manufacturing methods, operational technologies (OT), and information and communication technologies (ICT) to drive the creation of manufacturing systems with gr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Formal Process for Community-Based Reference Model Evolution for Smart Manufacturing Systems
Service-oriented manufacturing systems need to be supported by formal reference models for effective service description, discovery, and composition. A reference model should evolve continuously throughout its...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward Manufacturing System Composability Analysis: A Use Case Scenario
Smart manufacturing system will be able to quickly adapt to new and changing requirements, implying that software and hardware components of the manufacturing system need to be easily recomposed. In addition, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use Case Analysis for Standard Manufacturing Service Capability Model
Manufacturing enterprises are becoming globally distributed production systems. Rigid supply chains are giving way to dynamic supply networks that are cost-efficient and can respond to change quickly. A key fa...
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Article
Agile test framework for business-to-business interoperability
Business-to-business (B2B) applications are tested routinely for conformance and interoperability against a set of data exchange standards before deployment. However, the existence of many data exchange standa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Test Framework for Efficient and Reusable Global e-Business Test Beds
We introduce a novel Agile Test Framework (ATF) for eBusiness systems interoperability and conformance testing. Largely, existing test frameworks have been designed to only consider a limited collection of spe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Map** XML Schema to OWL
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Architecture for Semantic Enterprise Application Integration Standards
Large, industry-wide interoperability projects use syntax-based standards approaches to accomplish interoperable data exchange among enterprise applications. We are investigating Semantic Web to advance these ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Content-Level Conformance Testing: An Information Map** Case Study
Content-level conformance testing is a key to achieving interoperable data exchange among applications deployed across collaborating, yet independent enterprises. In this paper, we identify four types of conte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Resolution for E-commerce
We describe a research project on resolving semantic differences for multi-agent systems (MAS) in electronic commerce. The approach can be characterized as follows: (1) agents in a MAS may have their own speci...
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Chapter
Ontologies as a New Cost Factor in Enterprise Integration
The workgroup focused on key barriers to enterprise modeling for process and system optimization. Overcoming these long-lived barriers requires some new approaches and the workgroup settled on the introduction...
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Article
Toward Self-Integrating Software Applications for Supply Chain Management
Each paper in this special issue deals with a particular aspect of supply chain management. Nevertheless, they all point to a common need for meaningful and timely information exchange across the supply chain....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collaborative management environment: A web-based management tool
The intelligent agents and collaborative financial and project tools, coupled with WWW-based interfaces, provide the framework to logically link financial and project information. Through exploiting the power ...
