Title :
Research of a virtual information system supporting dynamic collaboration
Author :
Tao, Dan ; Fan, Yushun ; Wu, Cheng ; Xu, Qingsong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In the rapidly changing global competitive environment, dynamic collaboration among companies is required to bring a complementary set of competencies to address new market opportunity. To support this new relationship, an Agile Manufacturing Information System (AMIS) assisting the virtual enterprise to manage and control information flow among collaborating partners is described. Based on an analysis of the virtual information system requirements, the architecture of AMIS is presented by using distributed workflow and agent technology, and the functions, features and execution scheme of this system are discussed in detail
Keywords :
client-server systems; groupware; manufacturing data processing; software agents; systems analysis; workflow management software; AMIS; Agile Manufacturing Information System; agent technology; collaborating partners; distributed workflow; dynamic collaboration; global competitive environment; information flow; market opportunity; virtual enterprise; virtual information system requirements; Agile manufacturing; Ambient intelligence; Companies; Control systems; Information management; Information systems; International collaboration; Management information systems; Market opportunities; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5670-5
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1999.815357
