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Collaborative framework for virtual organisation synthesis based on a dynamic m...
Arrais-Castro, António; Varela, Leonilde; Putnik, Goran; Ribeiro, Rita; Machado, José; Ferreira, LuísGlobalisation and increased competition pushes companies to grow outside political and geographical boundaries, frequently forcing them to increase product diversification and optimise their relation with potential and effective partners and customers. In this scenario, implementing agile collaboration networks with business partners is a requirement. In this article the authors propose a collaborative framewor...
A data fusion approach for business partners selection
Varela, M.L.R.; Arrais-Castro, António; Ribeiro, Rita A.Strategies of market diversification push companies to provide novel products and services to customers, belonging to new geographic and demographic segments. Additionally, market development strategies targeting non-buying customers in selected segments or new buyers in new segments may be paired with increased product diversification and improved business agility. To fulfil the requirements associated with ma...
Web-based decision support system for orders planning
Arrais-Castro, António; Varela, M.L.R.; Carmo-Silva, S.Competition in the global economy is intensifying the implementation of the mass customization paradigm. This requires a substantial increase in the personalized interaction between client and producer. Agility in the order-production-delivery cycle optimization is a key element for industrial enterprises as a means to meet requirements of this paradigm. The use of agile methodologies for this purpose requires ...
Collaborative network platform for multi-site production
Arrais-Castro, António; Varela, M.L.R.; Putnik, Goran D.; Ribeiro, Rita A.The Competition in the global economy is intensifying the implementation of web-based collaboration platforms to improve the personalized interaction between clients and producers. Agility in the order-production-delivery cycle is a key element for industrial enterprises as a means to meet the requirements of this paradigm. Agile/Virtual Enterprise based scenarios are characterized by large product variety depe...