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Due to globalization and increased competition, the future market position of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is closely related to the ability of cooperating with partners and of reusing existing knowledge. Solutions for efficient knowledge logistics will form a key success factor for distributed and networked enterprises. In our approach, we consider competence models as a knowledge source in SME networks and we use knowledge supply networks as an infrastructure for knowledge logistics. The chapter introduces organizational and technological aspects of our approach including university — SME cooperation, semantic nets and multi-agent framework. Application area is the field of agile SME-networks which are typically temporary, dynamical with respect to their members, geographically distributed, and flexible to market demands.
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Sandkuhl, K., Smirnov, A., Henoch, B. (2005). Towards Knowledge Logistics in Agile SME Networks. In: Dolgui, A., Soldek, J., Zaikin, O. (eds) Supply Chain Optimisation. Applied Optimization, vol 94. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23581-7_2
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