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This work addresses the supply-chain coordination in the virtual enterprise environment, pointing out a system developed in the scope of the ESPRIT Prodnet-II project to provide an advanced functionality to manage distributed business processes at the operational level. A wider system architecture being investigated to provide a smart functionality to manage a dynamic supply chain network is focused. In this new architecture, other and complementary technologies not used in the Prodnet-II project are being applied, namely Multi-agent Systems, CORBA and WWW. At the advanced functionality level, the system provides means for getting, analyzing, making available and managing the information from and about a virtual enterprise, enabling the enterprises to make their operation more efficiently by means of a integrated information-based supply-chain management.
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- Supply Chain
- Multiagent System
- Virtual Enterprise
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- Network Enterprise
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Rabelo, R.J., Klen, A.P., Ferreira, A.C. (2000). For a Smart Coordination of Distributed Business Processes. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Erbe, HH. (eds) Advances in Networked Enterprises. BASYS 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 53. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35529-0_8
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