Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture: A Systems Perspective on Industrial Information Integration

ISBN-13: 9781439850244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 446 str.

Li Xu

Opis

This book provides a detailed description of enterprise information integration, from the development of enterprise systems for individual enterprises, to the extended enterprise information integration in supply chain environment, through discussing enterprise architecture, information architecture for enterprises, business process/work flow modeling, and enterprise information integration. The author clearly explains how industrial information integration can be more successful through the integration of systems approach as well as how systems science will profoundly impact and change the research in industrial information integration.

Spis treści

Introduction. Enterprise Integration. Extended Enterprise Integration in Supply Chain. Enterprise and Supply Chain Architecture. Information Architecture for Enterprise and Supply Chain: A New Discipline of Industrial Information Integration. Enterprise Process Modeling and Workflow Management. Enterprise Information Integration Modeling and Integrating Information Flows. Industrial Information Integration. Systems Approach to Industrial Information Integration. Future Evolution.

O autorze

Li Da Xu serves as the founding chair of IFIP TC8 WG8.9 and the IEEE SMC Society Technical Committee on Enterprise Information Systems and as the founding editor in chief of the engineering journal entitled Enterprise Information Systems. He is an endowed Changjiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China. His affiliations include the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the China State Council Development Research Center, and Old Dominion University, United States. Professor Xu has participated in early research and educational academic activities in the field of systems science and engineering. He has collaborated and worked extensively with pioneering scholars such as West Churchman, John Warfield, and Qian Xuesen.

Furthermore, he has spearheaded early research and educational academic activities in the field of information systems and enterprise systems, which started in the early 1980s. He is a coauthor of the recent book entitled Systems Science: Methodological Approaches published by Taylor & Francis Group. His work has been cited by Qian Xuesen and other well-known scholars.