Manufacturing perspective of enterprise application integration: The state of the art review

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4567-4596

  Liu, X ^a   Zhang, W J ^b,c   Radhakrishnan, R ^c   Tu, Y L ^d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enterprise application integration; Enterprise modelling; Semantic integration; Software architecture; Syntactic integration; Web service

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MANUFACTURE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOLUTIONS; SYNTACTICS;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; ENGINEERING FIELDS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI); ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION; EXTENDED ENTERPRISES; GENERAL (CO); KNOWLEDGE BASED ENGINEERING (KBE); KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MANUFACTURING PARADIGMS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MASS CUSTOMIZATION (MC); SATISFACTORY SOLUTION; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SERVICE ACTIVITIES; SOFTWARE MARKETS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ARTS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE (VE);

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 46649086974     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701263325     Document Type: Article

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