Methodologies and Technologies for Networked Enterprises

This book examines organizational issues facing networked enterprises: methodologies, empirical contexts and policies; software methodologies and technologies; knowledge elicitation and management and more. Uses a case study throughout as a reference example.

The need for flexibility and globalization forces enterprises to decentralize their activities and continuously (re)structure their networks of relationships regarding both their productive "supply chains" and their design and innovation processes. The goal of the ArtDeco project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Scientific Research under the FIRB program (funding for basic research), has been to address these issues by proposing solutions from three main perspectives: the organizational perspective aimed at studying how companies work in a network and how their design processes can benefit from collaboration with other companies; the informational perspective focusing on how to acquire relevant knowledge from unstructured information and processes and on how to organize and manage such knowledge; and the infrastructural perspective focusing on understanding how self-adaptive workflows and software systems can help in supporting the dynamic interconnection of enterprises.

The book contains a collection of papers offering an overview of the main results produced by the ArtDeco project. It has been structured into the following four main parts: organizational issues: methodologies, empirical contexts and policies; software methodologies and technologies; knowledge elicitation and management; and management of peripheral devices. It also includes a case study used throughout the book as a reference example.

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Inhalt
Introduction.- Reference Case Study.- Part I Organizational Issues: Methodologies, Empirical Contexts and Policies.- Which Collaboration Strategy for the Networked Enterprise in Wine Industry? Technological and Organizational Challenges.- A Design-Driven Approach for the Innovation Management within Networked Enterprises.- Enhancing the Networked Enterprise for SMEs: A Service Platforms Oriented Industrial Policy.- Part II SoftwareMethodologies and Technologies.- Complex Autonomic Systems for Networked Enterprises: Mechanisms, Solutions and Design Approaches.- Autonomic Workflow and Business Process Modelling for Networked Enterprises.- Verification and Analysis of Autonomic Systems for Networked Enterprises.- Part III Knowledge Elicitation and Management.- Ontology-Based Knowledge Elicitation: An Architecture.- Knowledge Extraction from Natural Language Processing.- Knowledge Extraction from Events Flows.- Context-Aware Knowledge Querying in a Networked Enterprise.- On-the-Fly and Context-Aware Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources.- Context Support for Designing Analytical Queries.- Part IV Management of Peripheral Devices.- Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Vineyards.- Design, Implementation, and Field Experimentation of a Long-Lived Multi-hop Sensor Network for Vineyard Monitoring.- Extracting Data from WSNs: A Service-Oriented Approach.- Extracting Data from WSNs: A Data-Oriented Approach.- Optimal Design of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Enabling Traceability in theWine Supply Chain.- Part V Case Study.- Putting It All Together: Using the ArtDeco Approach in the Wine Business Domain.Reference Case Study.- Part I Organizational Issues: Methodologies, Empirical Contexts and Policies.- Which Collaboration Strategy for the Networked Enterprise in Wine Industry? Technological and Organizational Challenges.- A Design-Driven Approach for the Innovation Management within Networked Enterprises.- Enhancing the Networked Enterprise for SMEs: A Service Platforms Oriented Industrial Policy.- Part II SoftwareMethodologies and Technologies.- Complex Autonomic Systems for Networked Enterprises: Mechanisms, Solutions and Design Approaches.- Autonomic Workflow and Business Process Modelling for Networked Enterprises.- Verification and Analysis of Autonomic Systems for Networked Enterprises.- Part III Knowledge Elicitation and Management.- Ontology-Based Knowledge Elicitation: An Architecture.- Knowledge Extraction from Natural Language Processing.- Knowledge Extraction from Events Flows.- Context-Aware Knowledge Querying in a Networked Enterprise.- On-the-Fly and Context-Aware Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources.- Context Support for Designing Analytical Queries.- Part IV Management of Peripheral Devices.- Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Vineyards.- Design, Implementation, and Field Experimentation of a Long-Lived Multi-hop Sensor Network for Vineyard Monitoring.- Extracting Data from WSNs: A Service-Oriented Approach.- Extracting Data from WSNs: A Data-Oriented Approach.- Optimal Design of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Enabling Traceability in theWine Supply Chain.- Part V Case Study.- Putting It All Together: Using the ArtDeco Approach in the Wine Business Domain.