The inspection process planning with coordinate measuring machines involves repetitive and well-known decisions to make about the different strategies to use, although much of this knowledge is today implicit in the expert mind. Therefore, the inspection planning is a good activity for implementing knowledge-based engineering (KBE) systems. However, the origin of KBE is in the design activity a...

In recent years, due to the increasing needs for information related products in daily life, the information and communication industry is in full flourish. In Taiwan, competition on hardware products has shifted from price and quality to after-sale and maintenance services. If the manufacturer could collaborate with commercial links of the purchaser, supplier, logistic partners and financial s...

Business process mapping has been heralded as a key method for improving Business Process Management. Thereby enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. There are a number of critical success factors however that need to be in place in order to attain this. One of them is the method or technique to be used for the capture, documentation, modeling, communication and impro...

The cooperative inter-municipal waste collection can be a real added value in terms of costs reduction and high performance services. The chapter proposes a Multi Agent Approach to support the inter-municipal infrastructure. The Multi Agent Systems (MAS) is an approach suitable to implement a distributed physically problem as the inter-municipal waste collection. The architecture of the approac...

In many practical business process modelling scenarios using Petri nets, the resultant model does not have a single input place and a single output place. In particular, this happens when the Petri net model is derived by mapping from an Hybrid IDEF0-IDEF3 model. Therefore, the correctness of the model cannot be assessed with existing techniques, which are devised for WF-nets — a special class ...

This is a case study of cooperative development between college and corporation to manufacture carton-filling machine. Specifically, green method was proposed that would match the college’s design capabilities with manufacturing capacity enterprise. college–enterprise represents an extensive collaboration industry academia. integrates for (DFM) theory integrated computer aided definition (IDEF)...

While much has been written about patterns in software engineering, little has been written about their application to systems architecting. This paper provides a discussion of patterns and their potential applicability to complex system architecting. A historical introduction to the concept of patterns is provided along with their evolution from the domain of civil architecture to other engine...

This article is aimed at defining a framework for the design of e-government services on cultural heritage. Starting from an analysis of three cases on digitization of different types of cultural objects, we highlight the problems existing in the creation of e-services on cultural heritage. These cases show the existence of four key issues in the development of this kind of information systems:...

The paper gives a comprehensive overview of the European Esprit Condor project. The project provides a migration path from document-based to model-based approaches to information representation and structuring. The paper, first, presents the approach that is adopted to describe the business processes and document management practices of the project end-users, and also to capture the requirement...