As the businesses move towards complex and globally integrated scenario, active innovation is becoming vital for the survival of organizations. Knowledge-base in society in the form of discussion groups, communities of practices, think tanks and universities can be used as a valuable resource for generating new ideas or innovative views on complex problems. The paper views the problem from acti...

Nowadays, more and more enterprises realize that one important step to success in their business is to create new and innovative products. Many times the solution to do that is to abandon the idea of an enterprise as an “isolated island”, and get collaboration with others: worldwide non-hierarchical networks are characterized by collaboration and non-centralized decision making. This paper prop...

State-of-the-art product configuration enables companies to deliver customized products by selecting and assembling predefined configuration elements based on known relationships. This paper introduces an innovative concept, open configuration, in order to assist companies in configuring products that correspond exactly to what customers want. Superior to product configuration, open configurati...

A method for obtaining optimized relational representations of database conceptual schemas in an extended entity-relationship model is first proposed. The method incorporates and generalizes a familiar heuristics to obtain good relational representations and also produces, for each relational structure, an explanation indicating which concepts it represents. Then, a redesign method that, given ...

today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...

Reasoning on provenance information and property propagation is of significant importance in e-science since it helps scientists manage derived metadata in order to understand the source of an object, reproduce results of processes and facilitate quality control of results and processes. In this paper we introduce a simple, yet powerful reasoning mechanism based on property propagation along th...