Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one of the driving factors for the success of the enterprises. However, recently it was pointed out that companies need resource management rather than resource planning (www.imti21.org). ...

Today's highly competitive business environment forces the managers to continuously make the best decisions in the shortest possible time. The ability to provide concurrency among manufacturing functions is a critical need ...

Creating knowledge intensive systems seems to be inevitable in modern enterprises. More autonomous systems would be dominating nearly all aspects of the organization from management to production, from marketing to supplier ...

Manufacturing enterprises need the ability to respond to rapid changes in the market more than ever before. Besides, they are forced to constantly modify their culture and internal organization structures because of change ...

Swarm intelligence is the emergent collective intelligence of groups of simple autonomous agents which are autonomous subsystems that interact with their environment. This paper presents a performance evaluation system for ...