James G. Nell

New Support Technologies for Enterprise Integration

The workgroup focused on radical but oractical strategies for greatly improving enterprise modeling and process modeling in an enterprise context. The group’s work centered on improning user benefits in the context of common models, enterprise context and enterprise views. Major problems addressed were: multi-world views, soft modeling and meta-modeling theories. Several discrete research projects were proposed.

A Standardization Strategy that Matches Enterprise Operation

This paper presents an analysis of what it means for an enterprise to be integrated, what enterprises are really trying to achieve by integrating their processes, what is really going on among their processes, and how integration may, or may not, change that. Some approaches to analyzing enterprise operation are discussed.

A Merged Future for Knowledge Management and Enterprise Modeling

Both knowledge management and enterprise modeling have strong interest communities; each has a sustainable market in the enterprise supporting practitioners and theorists. Both have structural barriers at fulfilling early promise.

Accomplishments of the ICEIMT'02

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the activities of this initiative on Enterprise Intra-and Inter-organizational Integration—International Consensus (El3- IC) and especially of its conference the ICEIMT’02. We have extracted the major accomplishments, identified how the discussions have fiirthered our knowledge about enterprise integration, and attempted to show how the infor-mation was parlayed into better knowledge about the topic. In addition to the analysis of the initiative as a whole and of its results, we report results from a plenary discussion, held as the closing session of the conference.

System Requirements: Products, Processes and Models

Enterprises use stovepipe tools that limit imteroperability, traceability, comsistency, and complicate data sharing and impact satisfying cusrtomer expectations for high quality, low price, fast delivery and environmentally clean Products.

Erratum to: Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration

Erratum to: K. Kosanke et al. (Eds.) Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35621-1

Agents and Advanced Virtual Enterprises: Needs and an Approach

Virtual enterprises, especially advanced types, have shown promise for some time but have not yet become common. Some techniques that should facilitate progress are knowledge management, agent systems and enterprise modeling. This workgroup examined how these techniques might be applied in concert for information infrastructure for such advanced virtual enterprises.