In addition to functionalities, business process management (BPM) involves several key
indicators such as openness, security, flexibility, and scalability. Optimizing system …

Abstract From Germany's Industry 4.0 mission to Made in China 2025 and Make in India
mission to British Factory of the Future in 2050, digital manufacturing (DM) is promoting in …

Dynamic alliance and virtual enterprise (VE) are essential components of global
manufacturing. Minimizing risk in partner selection and ensuring the due date of a project …

Research on specification and scheduling of workflows has concentrated on temporal and
causality constraints, which specify existence and order dependencies among tasks …

Web processes are the next generation workflows created using Web services. This paper
addresses research issues in creating a framework for configuring and executing dynamic …

Manufacturing Market is a market in which manufacturing process capacity is the object of
trade. In a market, units of capacity, represented as manufacturing services, can be acquired …

Virtual integration (VI) offers a way to make manufacturing systems more agile and
competitive. VI integrates the production resources of many manufacturing systems …

Numerous proposals exist worldwide for the representation of data models and services for
the main manufacturing activities. The ISO10303 STEP has developed more than 40 …

The Internet of Things (IoT) not only identifies physical and virtual objects, but also enables
the connection of such objects in an internet-like structure. In this context, services are one of …

Enterprises heavily rely on the state-of-the-art information technologies user behaviors and
social system to sustain business competitiveness. Service-Oriented Architecture (SoA) and …