(geographic) location and, consequently, contribute to the product and process quality. In that sense, it is supposed that application of virtual enterprise (VE) organizational principles contributes to the agility of the work teams, that is, to the concurrent engineering (CE) work teams, or team work, organization. With the objective to test the potential of virtual enterprise (VE) organizatio...

Our extensive research has indicated that high-school teachers are reluctant to make use of existing instructional educational software (Pollard, 2005). Even software developed in a partnership between a teacher and a software engineer is unlikely to be adopted by teachers outside the partnership (Pollard, 2005). In this paper we address these issues directly by adopting a reusable architectura...

Along with the explosive growth of the Web has come a great increase in on-line scholarly literature. More and more researchers are turning to their computers for the latest results in their field. Not only is Web retrieval usually faster than a walk to the library, but the information obtained from the Web is generally more current than what appears in printed publications. The increasing prop...

Service-orientierte Software-Architekturen wachsen gegenwärtig mit Architekturen für Cloud Computing zusammen. Neue Software-Architekturen sind die strukturelle Basis für zukunftsweisende IT-Unternehmensarchitekturen und zugehörige leistungsstarke Informationssysteme. Das ARL Architecture Reference Lab des SOA Innovation Lab und der Hochschule Reutlingen erforscht in einem deutschlandweit ausge...

Although mobile knowledge management (mKM) is being perceived as an emerging R&D field, its concepts and approaches are not well-established, as compared to the general field of Knowledge Management (KM). In this paper, we try to establish a definition for mKM. Taking into account building blocks of KM in enterprises and the abstract use cases of mKM systems, we introduce a reference architectu...

Mashup applications combine pieces of functionality from several existing websites to provide new integrated functionality. Existing mashup tools typically address only some aspects of the problem and use a variety of sometimes overlapping and sometimes complementary approaches that make it difficult to compare them. In this ‘work in progress’ paper, we present a first draft of one reference ar...

The use of ontologies is on the rise, as they facilitate interoperability and provide support for automation. Today, ontologies are popular for research in areas such as the Semantic Web, knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence and knowledge management. However, many real world problems in these disciplines are burdened by incomplete information and other sources of uncertainty which tra...

Future manufacturing systems need to cope with frequent changes and disturbances. As such, their control requires constant adaptation and high flexibility. Holonic manufacturing is a highly distributed control paradigm that promises to handle these problems successfully. It is based on the concept of autonomous co-operating agents, called ‘holons’. This paper gives an overview of the holonic re...

As the Privacy Act is in force in Korea, the subject of protection responsibility is increased, and continuous efforts are made to protect privacy in overseas countries, as can be seen by standard drafts related to privacy protection. However, the reality is that a formal privacy manual or guidelines are insufficient to help cope with the rapid changes and privacy leak caused by TGIF(Twitter-Go...