An extensible knowledge base management system for supporting rule-based interoperability among heterogeneous systems
Stanley Y. W. Su, Herman X. Lam, Javier A. Arroyo-Figueroa, Tsae-Feng Yu, Zhidong Yang · 1995
The main objective of a virtual enterprise (VE) is to allow a number of organizations to rapidly develop a working environment to manage a collection of resources contributed by the organizations toward the attainment of some common goals. One of the key requirements of a virtual enterprise is to develop an information infrastructure to support the interoperability of distributed and heterogeneous systems for controlling and conducting the business of the virtual enterprise. In order to achieve the objective and to meet this requirement, it is necessary to model all things of interest to a virtual enterprise such as data, human and hardware resources, organizational structures, business constraints, production processes, and activities in work management. Additionally, a system is needed to manage the meta-information and the shared data and to provide both build-time and run-time services to the heterogeneous systems to achieve their interoperability. In this paper, we describe the mo...