BASYS 2000: Advances in Networked Enterprises pp 81-90 | Cite as
For a Smart Coordination of Distributed Business Processes
Abstract
This work addresses the supply-chain coordination in the virtual enterprise environment, pointing out a system developed in the scope of the ESPRIT Prodnet-II project to provide an advanced functionality to manage distributed business processes at the operational level. A wider system architecture being investigated to provide a smart functionality to manage a dynamic supply chain network is focused. In this new architecture, other and complementary technologies not used in the Prodnet-II project are being applied, namely Multi-agent Systems, CORBA and WWW. At the advanced functionality level, the system provides means for getting, analyzing, making available and managing the information from and about a virtual enterprise, enabling the enterprises to make their operation more efficiently by means of a integrated information-based supply-chain management.
Keywords
Supply Chain Multiagent System Virtual Enterprise Common Object Request Broker Architecture Network EnterpriseReferences
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