Arachne: adaptive network strategy in a business environment
Computers in Industry - Advanced web technologies for industrial applications
Determining the anatomy of business systems for a virtual enterprise
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
Elements of a base VE infrastructure
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
Emergent standard of knowledge management: Hybrid peer-to-peer knowledge management
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Collaborative framework for supporting indigenous knowledge management
Proceedings of the ACM first Ph.D. workshop in CIKM
Process oriented framework to support PLM implementation
Computers in Industry
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This paper reports on a collaborative product development and knowledge management platform for small to medium enterprises. It has been recognised that current product lifecycle management (PLM) implementations are document oriented, have a non-customisable data model and inter-enterprise integration difficulties. To overcome these, an ontological knowledge management methodology utilising the semantic web initiative data formats was added to a PLM and an open source alternative. Shortcomings of centralised architectures are highlighted and a solution using a de-centralised architecture proposed. This is implementable at low cost; the scalability increases in line with user numbers. Ontologies, rules and workflows are reusable and extendable.