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Extensible Markup Language emerges as the leading notation to represent and exchange structured information. A distributed enterprise is a new paradigm for organizational design, based upon independent business entities which partly cooperate, by sharing their resources, skills and knowledge, and partly compete with each other. This paper presents an XML-based language to represent models of distributed production enterprises — the enterprises that coordinate production and delivery of products to its customers by means of several independent production cells. The models are minimal (built with the smallest possible number of concepts), formal (assigned formal semantics), technology-independent (semantics is expressed in abstract mathematical terms), and wide-spectrum (supporting descriptive and prescriptive modeling). The paper presents Document Type Definitions for representing the resources, operations, processes, customer and purchase orders, etc. that comprise the language, and describes their intended semantics using formal specifications.
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Janowski, T. (2002). Modeling Distributed Production Enterprises with XML. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35585-6_29
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