World-wide markets are becoming increasingly competitive, and in order to sustain market
share organisations are developing a customer-oriented approach for designing and …

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 …

The manufacturing model is an information model that describes the manufacturing
capability of a particular enterprise. To achieve general applicability, the model consists of …

This paper describes PERA (the P urdue E nterprise R eference A rchitecture) and shows its
relationships to GERAM (the G eneralized E nterprise R eference A rchitecture and M …

We introduce policy resolution (PR) for workflow management systems (WFMS) as service to
assign work to agents. Policy resolution is a framework for defining arbitrary role and …

The definition of the concept of S 2-Enterprise (Smart x Sensing) reference model is
presented. The S 2 Reference Model (S 2-RM) is targeted to assist in the system …

The results of research carried out in the world of reference models to assist in the selection
of the model (s) that best set the context and basis for the definition of a reference model for …

The initial development of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) and the
Purdue Methodology (PM) was necessitated by the desires of the industry for guidance in …

A main challenge in managing projects is identification and understanding of interactions
between subtasks. These interactions give rise to dependencies between activities in the …

Macrostructural modelization is paramount to the development of large complex systems
(LCS). The paper explores the macrostructural modelization of LCS in terms of a block …