Design process excellence is considered a major differentiating factor between competing enterprises since it determines the constraints within which plant operation and supply ch...
Following from part I, which presents a retrospective on optimization, we focus here on areas that are recent active research topics and are likely to strongly influence the futur...
Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we pr...
ERIM's1 Center for Electronic Commerce (CEC) hosted a two-day Workshop on Industrial Agents in Ann Arbor, MI on Nov. 12-13, 1998. Participation in the workshop was by invitat...
Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of groupware systems due to the dynamics and differentiation of cooperative work. This article investigates the use of softwa...