Developing supply chain information sharing through semantic interoperability

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-141

  Uusipaavalniemi, Sari ^a   Peltomaa, Irina ^b   Helaakoski, Heli ^b   Haapasalo, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Enterprise development; Information sharing; Interoperability; Maintenance services; Semantic technologies; Small and medium sized enterprises; Supply chain performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549123156     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2009.025946     Document Type: Article

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