Name
Abstract | ||
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International competition and varying customer needs commonly cause small and medium furniture manufacturing enterprises to join dynamically-formed, 'smart' enterprise networks, established and operating using digital information technologies. In this paper, we propose a technological approach to support such enterprise networks which is primarily based on the use of software agents. First we outline the reasons motivating networking in furniture manufacturing enterprises and we briefly present core smart enterprise network concepts. Subsequently, we provide an overview of the main technologies currently used to support enterprise networks, and we make the case for utilising service-orientation and adaptive, (semi-) autonomous software components, such as software agents. Furthermore, we propose a four-tier software architectural framework based on software agents and web services, and we briefly describe the requirements, the architecture and main features of the e-Fum software system, which is based on that framework. Finally, we discuss the intelligent recommendation feature of e-Furn. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1007/978-3-642-14306-9_39 | Communications in Computer and Information Science |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Smart Business Networks,Enterprise Networks,Software Agents,Multi-Agent Systems,Web Services,Furniture Manufacturing,Data Mining | Software deployment,Functional software architecture,Engineering management,Enterprise software,Computer science,Architecture framework,Computer network,Knowledge management,Software agent,Software system,Component-based software engineering,Enterprise private network | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
88 | 1865-0929 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 19 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Karageorgos | 1 | 229 | 24.72 |
| Dimitra Avramouli | 2 | 2 | 0.71 |
| Christos Tjortjis | 3 | 173 | 24.40 |
| Georgios Ntalos | 4 | 2 | 0.71 |