ICEIMT 04.- A’ standards’ Foundation for Interoperability.- Standards in Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration.- Integrating Enterprise Model Views through Alignment of Metamodels.- Semantic Distance and Enterprise Integration.- The Nature of Knowledge and its Sharing through Models.- ATHENA Integrated Project and the Mapping to International Standard ISO 15704.- Architectural Principles for Enterprise Frameworks: Guidance for Interoperability.- UEML: a Further Step.- Connecting EAI-Domains Via SOA— Central vs. Distributed Approaches to Establish Flexible Architectures.- A Meta-methodology for Collaborative Network Organisations: A Case Study and Reflections.- An Ontological Approach to Characterising Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.- Coherent Models of Processes and Human Systems.- If Business Models Could Speak! Efficient: a Framework for Appraisal, Design and Simulation of Electronic Business Transactions.- Building a Better Team.- A Reference Model for Human Supply Chain Integration: an Interdisciplinary Approach.- A Proposition for Risk Analysis in Manufacturing and Enterprise Modeling.- An Ontology for Static Knowledge Provenance.- Object Model for Planning and Scheduling Integration in Discrete Manufacturing Enterprises.- B2B Applications, BPEL4WS, Web Services and .NET in the Context of MDA.- A Research Framework for Operationalizing Measures of Enterprise Integration.- A Vision of Enterprise Integration Considerations.- Enterprise Integration Engineering as an Enabler for Business Process Management.- Deriving Enterprise Engineering and Integration Frameworks from Supply Chain Management Practices.- How to Model Business Processes with GPN.- Enterprise Integration and Networking: Issues, Trends and Vision.- Enterprise IntegrationApproaches in Healthcare: A Decade of Trial and Error.- An Enterprise Modelling Approach to Team Systems Engineering.- Improving Supply Chain Performance through Business Process Reengineering.- Toward the Knowledge-based Enterprise.- Strategic Process Integration.- DIISM 04.- Manufacturing and Engineering in the Information Society: Responding to Global Challenges.- Considering Designer’s Intention for the Development of Feature Library of a Process Planning System.- Manipulation Planning for Knotting Linear Objects with One Hand.- Cost Prediction System Using Activity-Based Model for Machine Tool Operation.- Information Modeling for Product Lifecycle Management.- Generic Core Life Cycle and Conceptual Architecture for the Development of Collaborative Systems.- Integrated Process Management System and RFID Directory Services.- Seven Tools of Operation Standardization for Mass Production of a New Product.- Workbench: A Planning Tool for Faster Factory Optimization.

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