Organising efficiently all the resources required for manufacturing has derived considerable attention of both researchers and practitioners over the last several decades. Beginning from a functionally focused approach several alternatives have been suggested using principles of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing. This paper seeks to address the problems that are yet to be addressed an...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming an increasingly mature field of work, but many large organizations still struggle with implementing an integral and truly effective EA function. The literature provides a fragmented picture of the EA function, describing the various separate elements that make up the total package of activities, resources, skills, and competences of the EA delivery funct...

D esigners of microarchitectures for generalpurpose microprocessors once based their design decisions on experts’ intuition and rules of thumb. Since the mid-1980s, however, microarchitecture research has become a systematic process that uses simulation tools extensively. Although architectural simulators model microarchitectures at a high abstraction level, the increasing complexity of both th...

This paper presents a new software architecture we have developed, known as Tinmithevo5, which is designed to streamline the process of writing applications for augmented reality and other types of virtual environments. Writing AR applications can be a complex and time consuming task, as there is little existing technology to support this process. This lack of technology requires the implementa...

Software architecture (SA) process consists of several activities, which involve complex knowledge intensive process. The knowledge produced and consumed during this process needs to be shared and reused among different stakeholders, and across different life-cycle phases. Therefore, software architecture knowledge needs to be managed for improving organization architecture capabilities. It is ...

Becoming more and more process oriented, companies develop collections of hundreds or even thousands of business process models that represent the complex system of cooperating entities that form an organization. Designing and analyzing the structure of this system of business process models emerges as a new challenge, which is covered by the field of business process architecture. This paper p...

The development of process automation systems has been evolving to raise productivity and enhance plant operation. Their fundamental architecture has advanced from large centralized systems to highly distributed systems; but suffering from three major disadvantages. First is the requirement of extensive premature capital investments for sustaining the systems life cycle. Secondly are the inhere...

Product-line architectures, i.e. a software architecture and component set shared by a family of products, represents a promising approach to achieving reuse of software. Several companies are initiating or have recently adopted a product-line architecture. However, little experience is available with respect to the evolution of the products, the software components and the software architectur...

The complexity of distributed and decentralized systems demands new tools for designing and programming processes. An idea of autonomous agents that arises as an extension of the object and process concepts may be applied to distributed and decentralized systems development ([9],[11]). In the paper the authors have undertaken an attempt to describe formally the architecture of multiagent system...