The combination of innovative advance and fluctuating client needs are paving the way to continuous changes in manufacturing environments. As a result, mechanical enterprises aim for honing their processes by means Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). Their holy grail is connecting shop floor systems high business layer systems. Based on our previous literature review CIM architectures avai...

Although the competence level in pharmaceutical cold chain logistics is adequate current healthcare sector, future will be more unpredictable, disruptive, and chaotic than world of today because rapid technological changes, as well social disruption. This work introduces evaluates a new structure based on enhanced reference process model (RPM) architecture (RA) for design. The modified Delphi t...

Web and internet computing is evolving into a combination of social media, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) solutions. There is a need for an integrated approach when developing solutions that address web scale requirements with technologies that enable SMAC solutions. This paper presents an architecture model for the integrated approach that can form the basis for solutions and result in reu...

Reference architectures are a special type of software architectures that have been proposed for supporting standardization, development, and evolution of software systems of a given domain. As these architectures could contribute for knowledge reuse and increased productivity, several companies have been creating specific reference architectures for their field of expertise. Nonetheless, there...

Business-to-business e-contracting aims at automating the contracting process between companies. It improves the efficiency of the contracting process and enables the introduction of new business models that can be supported by companies. For the development of an e-contracting system, an architecture is required that describes the system components and the communication channels between them. ...

The Digital Library Research Group at Cornell has Reference Linking as one of its projects. Typical projects within in the group take an object-oriented approach to handling digital information. To support reference linking, therefore, we designed a scheme whereby reference linking information is extracted from archives by surrogate objects and then presented to client applications or users by ...

This report discusses the definition and modeling of reference architectures that specify the security aspects of distributed systems. NSA’s MISSI (Multilevel Information System Security Initiative) security reference architecture is used as an illustrative example. We show how one would define such a reference architecture, and how one could use such a definition to model as well as check impl...

Globalisation, outsourcing and customisation are main challenges of today not least for one-of-a-kind producers. A crucial competitive factor will be the ability rapidly to form customer focused virtual enterprises comprised of competencies from different partners by taking full advantage of ICT. To prepare for this is a complex task, in fact all business, management and planning views, and rel...