Business process management (BPM) aims to optimize business processes to achieve
better system performance such as higher profit, quicker response, and better services. BPM …

To keep up to date, manufacturing enterprises need to use the latest results from the ICT
sector, especially when collaborating with external partners in a supply chain and …

This paper reviews some of the most recently reported research into novel strategies for
global manufacturing systems interoperability. Such research can be categorised as …

Interoperability is a key factor in implementing a future factory. In European Union context
interoperability is the ability of organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals …

Inter-enterprise architecture (IEA) is a new concept that seeks to apply the tools and
methodologies of enterprise architecture (EA) in a collaborative context, in order to model …

The order picking process has been considered as the most time‐consuming and costly
activity in warehouse management. Efficient location management, including product …

Purpose Social enterprises (SEs) have emerged as a tool to sustainable development. SEs
create a social value along with an economic value. However, the aspect of SEs still missing …

In this paper, we propose an automated multi-agent negotiation framework for decision
making in the construction domain. It enables software agents to conduct negotiations and …

The coordination of the planning operations across the manufacturing supply chains (MSC)
is considered as a major component of supply chain management. As centralized …

Enterprise applications and software systems need to be interoperable in order to achieve
seamless business across organizational boundaries and thus realize virtual networked …