The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of cloud security and data privacy, cost effectiveness, Internet reliability, top management support, and competitive pressure factors on the intention to adopt cloud-based ERP system by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Penang, Malaysia. This study employs a survey method where 300 SMEs in both manufacturing and service sectors wer...

For manufacturing SMEs, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) systems can offer a multitude of benefits, but equally the potential exists to negatively affect the firms. Research that has explicitly focused on the motivations individual firms have for implementation and the challenges that may be encountered is limited. This study provides a review of some commercially available MRP II syste...

Cloud computing can offer a very powerful, reliable, predictable and scalable computing infrastructure for the execution of MAS (multi-agent systems) implementing complex agent-based applications such when modelling, simulation and real-time running of complex systems must be provided. Multi-agent systems appears as an adequate approach to current challenges in many areas. Between important qua...

According to Winkler [1], public cloud is based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. Public cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model. The main benefits of using public cloud services

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme that can achieve data privacy by hybrid cloud, which consists of public and private cloud, and reduce storage and computation in private cloud, as well as communication overhead between private and public cloud. Meanwhile, we propose a novel algorithm to process private image data. Our experimental results show that (1) our algorithm achieves data privac...

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new-generation service-oriented networked manufacturing model that provides distributed users centralized managed manufacturing resources, ability, and services. CMfg is applied here to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. Benefits are classified into five aspects: cost savings, efficiency, additional data analysis capabilities, flexibility, and closer partner ...

Cloud computing represents today’s most exciting computing archetype. It gives computing via internet. Cloud systems can be used to enable data sharing capabilities and this can provide abundant of benefits to the user. It is the most important trend in cloud technology for allows users to access data expediently. Privacy and security is the big challenge for stored data in cloud. Most existing...

Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise Paul J. Stamas Syracuse University, 2013 This case study research followed the two-year transition of a medium-sized manufacturing firm towards a service-oriented enterprise. A service-oriented enterprise is an emerging architecture of the firm that leverages the...