Systems Thinking - a Studie of Alternatives of R. Flood, M. Jackson, W. Ulrich, and G. Midgley.
Vagan Y. Terziyan, Andriy Zharko · The International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signal · 2003
Companies need integrated information systems to react to requirements of their customers, collaborate with partners, identify and exploit new opportunities quickly and effectively. A need for solid technology that will provide effective Knowledge Management within and across industrial enterprises is crucial. Nowadays a new integration concept based on the notion of Semantic Web is being developed, which pretends to address the industrial challenges concerning integration and interoperability. The concept assumes semantic annotation of Web resources and services to make them “understandable” by computers. On the other hand, emerging Peer-to-Peer technology and appropriate networks suite well to the increasingly decentralized nature of modern companies and their industrial and business processes, whether it is a single enterprise or a group of companies. In this paper a potential of combination of Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer is analyzed in the context of the integration and interoperability of industrial enterprises. A brief analysis of an industrial information infrastructure is provided. A survey of existent solutions is made showing the benefits from Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer to provide evidence in favour of combining these two technologies. A real industrial case of the global network of maintenance services is described that implements the above concepts within the OntoServ.Net project.