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Business Evolution and Enterprise Integration

Workshop 4, Working Group 3

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Enterprise Engineering and Integration

Part of the book series: Research Reports Esprit ((3853))

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The development of a theory of design for virtual organisations or enterprises has been identified and presented in form of a potential research programme. The required results include a theory that explains the dynamic interactions among partners that create the virtual enterprise and a proposal for the representation of the result. Ensuing would be a methodology specialised to the case of the dynamic creation of enterprises using design transactions, typical models for the enterprise engineering process, typical models for virtual enterprises (to be reused in this process), and the potential extension of the enabling enterprise modelling languages and tools.

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  1. School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University Nathan(Brisbane), QLD, 4111, Australia

    P. Bernus

  2. Dept de Recherche en Informatique, Automatique et Mechatronique (IUSPIM) Universite d’Aix-Marseille III, av Escadr. Normandie, Niemen, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    B. Espinasse

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Taddle Creek Road, Toronto, M5S 1A4, Canada

    M. Fox

  4. Sirius-Beta, 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach, VA, USA

    H. T. Goranson

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  1. CIMOSA Association, Stockholmer Str. 7, D-71034, Böblingen, Germany

    Kurt Kosanke

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 220, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

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Bernus, P., Espinasse, B., Fox, M., Goranson, H.T. (1997). Business Evolution and Enterprise Integration. In: Kosanke, K., Nell, J.G. (eds) Enterprise Engineering and Integration. Research Reports Esprit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60889-6_17

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