Starting from the identification of the increased need for enterprise integration and real-time
and up-to-date information, the paper briefly describes the CIMOSA concept, the enterprise …

An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture is the culmination of several decades of
experience that I have gained through work initially as an information technology manager …

Apart from the 20-year anniversary in 2014 of the first publication of the GERAM
('Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology') Enterprise Architecture …

The generic enterprise reference architecture and methodology is about those methods,
models and tools which are needed to build the integrated enterprise. The architecture is …

An approach to the design of an architecture for industrial virtual enterprises (VE), with
special emphasis on the identification of main functional requirements, is presented. First, a …

This paper presents the architecture of Agent-based Manufacturing Execution Systems
dedicated for short-series production support. The functional models are based on the …

This chapter presents GERAM, which is the result of a ten year project by the IFIP-IFAC Task
Force generalising the contributions of a number of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. As …

The paper presents the basic concepts of GERAM (generic enterprise reference architecture
and methodology) developed recently by the IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for …

This paper distinguishes between the business domain, the application software domain,
and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform domain. It analyses …

The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, is a paradigm shift that is currently changing our
society and the way we produce things. The first industrial revolution started at the end of the …