Abstract

Flexible coordination is a major aspect in the development of open support infrastructures for Industrial Virtual Enterprises (VE). The coordination issues in VEs in the context of Small and Medium size Enterprises and the need for very flexible and easily configurable solutions are discussed. The approaches and the hierarchical coordination infrastructure being partly developed by and applied to the Esprit PRODNET II project is presented. The combination of a worldlow management approach for coordination with a distributed / federated database management system is introduced as the coordination kernel, and some implementation results presented.

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