Editorial Guest Editors Abdelaziz Bouras , Yacine Ouzrout and Nickolas

A Business Collaborative Decision Making System for Network of SMEs

An Approach of Decision-Making Support Based on Collaborative Agents for Unexpected Rush Orders Management

Decisions at different levels of the supply chain can no longer be considered independently, since they may influence profitability throughout the supply chain. This paper focuses on the interest of multi-agent paradigm for the collaborative coordination in global distribution supply chain. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for a broad class of coordination and negotiation iss...

Supply chain management analysis: a simulation approach to the Value Chain Operations Reference (VCOR) model

The impact of globalisation and worldwide competition has forced firms to modify their strategies towards a real-time operation with respect to customers’ requirements. This behaviour allows the top management to move towards the concept of an extended enterprise in which a collaborative link is established among suppliers, commercial partners and customers. When the information flows involve e...

The multiple viewpoints as approach to information retrieval within collaborative development context

1 Abstract—Nowadays, to achieve competitive advantage, the industrial companies are considering that success is sustained to great product development. That is to manage the product throughout its entire lifecycle. Achieving this goal requires a tight collaboration between actors from a wide variety of domains, using different software tools producing various product data types and formats. The...

Representation and Exchange of "Knowledge Cards": A Pen Design Case Study

Organizations consider more and more the collaborative aspects to exchange information and knowledge, in complete and correct way, among different systems. These organizations involve many specialists from different domains, with wide-ranging knowledge. Consequently, knowledge is now regarded as a strategic asset which must be managed, with an increasing need for representation formalisms and d...