Overview

The growth in Internet and information technology (IT) has led to revolutionary changes in the way businesses are managed and operated. These IT changes have been largely characterized with the term globalization and these globalized changes in modern business are increasing at a rapid pace. Moreover, globalization requires rapid growth and dramatic changes in the business and market environments. Enterprises must be scalable to support such changes and unprecedented growth. Hence, there is an immediate need for a single reference book that identifies the multiple dimensions of scalability and enterprise systems. This book is designed to fulfill this need. Its objectives are as follows: to create a single source of literature to address the emerging area of scalable enterprise systems; to address the multi-disciplinary research needs stemming from engineering, computer science and business; to address the design, modelling, analysis, implementation and experimentation needs of scalable enterprise systems; and to act as a springboard for much of the ongoing research in the field of Scalable Enterprise Systems. The book addresses six key ideas related to scalable enterprise systems. Chapters one, two and three address the modelling aspects of enterprise systems. Chapter four discusses distributed control of such systems. Chapter five discusses the information systems modelling and implementation of the enterprise system with a transportation example. Given that enterprise systems produce and deal with large volumes of data, data mining is taken as a topic in chapter six. The need for a research test-bed is critical to study and analyze enterprise systems and this is the topic of chapter 7. Implementation level details play a vital role in studying the scalability of large-scale systems. Chapters eight, nine and ten deal with several applied and implementation aspects, such as publish-subscribe middleware, auctions in the context of reverse logistics, and value net implementation.

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Author:   Vittal Prabhu ,  Soundar Kumara ,  Manjunath Kamath
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.550kg
ISBN:  

9781402074912

ISBN 10:   1402074913
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   30 September 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. A Review of Enterprise Process Modelling Techniques.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Review of Process Modelling Techniques.- 3. Modelling Next-Generation Enterprises.- 4. The Distributed Integrated modelling of enterprises (DME) framework.- 5. Conclusions.- 6. Acknowledgements.- 7. References.- 2. Design and Manufacturing Process Management in a Network of Distributed Suppliers.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Background.- 3. Process modeling: A brief review.- 4. Functional Requirements of Process Management: Specification and Execution.- 5. Description of Midas System.- 6. Process Flow Generation and Execution.- 7. Percolation and Sensitivity Analysis: Process Expansion.- 8. A simple example.- 9. Conclusion.- 3. Finite Automata Modeling and Analysis of Supply Chain Networks.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Preliminaries.- 3. Supply Chain Modeling.- 4. Supply Chain Analysis.- 5. “GOURMET-TO-GO”- A Case Study.- 6. Conclusion.- 4. Distributed Control Algorithms for Scalable Decision-Making from Sensors-to Suppliers.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Feedback Control of Discrete Event-Timing.- 3. Modeling Event Timing Control Using Discontinuous Differential Equations.- 4. Unified Modeling and Control from Sensors-to-Suppliers.- 5. Conclusions.- 6. References.- 5. Collaborative Multiagent Based Information Infrastructure for Transportation Problem Solving.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Transportation problem.- 3. AGENT Interactions.- 4. Multiagent Model.- 5. Comparison with Other Research.- 6. Conclusions.- 6. Improving Scalability of E-Commerce Systems with Knowledge Discovery.- 1. Background.- 2. Case Study: Online Auctions for Recyclable Products.- 3. The Curse of Dimensionality.- 4. Expediting the System Operations.- 5. Improving Scalability of an Online Auction System.- 6. Conclusions.- References.- 7. AScalable Supply Chain Infrastructure Research Test-Bed.- 1. Background.- 2. A Scalable SCI test-bed Architecture.- 3. Advanced decision models.- 4. Support for Other Research Projects.- 5. Conclusions.- 6. Acknowledgements.- 7. References.- 8. Publish Subscribe Middleware.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Evolution of Publish Subscribe Systems.- 3. Design Issues in Content Based Systems.- 4. Event Multicast in Content Based Systems.- 5. Secure end point delivery.- 6. Summary.- 9. Experimental Study of Scalability Enhancement for Reverse Logistics E-Commerce.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Description of Experimental Prototype.- 3. Experimental Design.- 4. Auction Recommender.- 5. Conclusion.- 10. Web-Based Distributed Multi-Agent Architecture for Implementing Value Nets.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Literature Review.- 3. Multi-Agent Architecture.- 4. Agent Communication.- 5. Implementation of Multi-agents for value nets.- 6. Conclusions.- 7. Future work.

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