The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
A behavior-based approach to scheduling in distributed manufacturing systems
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Explanatory capability of enterprise models
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Reference architecture for enterprise intergration
Journal of Systems and Software
Self-evolution framework of manufacturing systems based on fractal organization
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Experimental analysis of self-organizing team's behaviors
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
On-line econometric modeling of the manufacturing system and process
MAMECTIS'09 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods, computational techniques and intelligent systems
Distributed intelligent RFID systems
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Time-synchronizing control of self-organizing shop floors for networked manufacturing
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Assessment of the competitive management efficiency in the manufacturing processes
ICOSSSE '09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
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Enterprises serve a purpose that is largely the reason as well as the result of its existence in a form that is most amenable for its sustenance. Despite this fact, seldom is the case that enterprises are designed or operated in a way that will bring out the best of its capabilities. The structure, normally designed by an external agency and to satisfy some instant of a future in mind is quite inadequate when such a future never comes to pass or when new futures are posed. At least to provide an enterprise a chance of continued survival what may be required is a structure that is more organic and self-organising in nature. This paper, in proposing a self-organising view of manufacturing enterprises, attempts to shed some light on the underlying processes and general mechanisms for the design and operation of self-organising enterprises. The discussion principally centres on the fundamental concepts of self-organisation that underpins the emerging concepts of holonic, bionic and fractal manufacturing to name a few. The concepts are suitably interpreted to provide insights into structural and operational issues that will confront an enterprise for it to become self-organising, and an example is provided to illustrate application.