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

Enterprise solutions have emerged as promising tools for integrating and extending business processes across business functions. Supplying a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field, this book provides a detailed description of enterprise information integration—from the development of enterprise systems to extended enterprise information integration in supply chain environments.Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture: A Systems Perspective on Industrial Information Integration explains how to improve industrial information integration through the application of a systems approach. Describing how systems science is impacting current research in industrial information integration, it covers enterprise architecture, information architecture for enterprises, business process/work flow modeling, and enterprise information integration. Covering the emergence, growth, and extension of integrated enterprise systems, the book provides you with various perspectives of modern enterprise solutions. It introduces the critical concepts of ERP, industry-oriented enterprise resource planning, and entire resource planning. It also provides guidance on how to transition from extended enterprise integration in a supply chain environment to systems-based enterprise architecture, enterprise modeling, and enterprise modeling in a supply chain environment.The book proposes a new information architecture for enterprise and supply chain management. It presents modeling and integration information flows for enterprise information integration, together with the Internet of Things (IoT). It also explores the theory and methods of industrial information integration including integration approaches and enterprise application integration.Complete with numerous examples of extended enterprise integration in actual supply chain environments, the book illustrates the critical issues that arise in professional practice and also explores emerging trends in enterprise integration and its information architecture

IntroductionModern Enterprise SolutionEmergence of ESsGrowth of ESs Brief History of ESs Characteristics of ESsES Examples ES Applications in the Manufacturing Industry C3P System Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Aero-Engine Pipe Routing Assembly Planning ES Applications in Healthcare ES Applications in Managing Dams ES Applications in the Telecommunication Industry ESs in Transportation ES Applications in Other AreasConclusionReferencesEnterprise IntegrationEnterprise IntegrationManufacturing Integration Brief Description of Manufacturing Enterprises Challenges Facing Manufacturing Enterprises Modularity and Integration to Meet Challenges Manufacturing IntegrationEngineering IntegrationCustomer IntegrationIndustry-Oriented ERP Introduction Industry-Oriented Enterprise Resource Planning Introduction IERP IERP versus General-Purpose ERP Connotation of IERP-Oriented Componentization Business-Driven Approach to IERP System-Oriented Componentization Levels of Business-Process-Driven Modeling Meta-Model for Business-Process-Driven IERP Componentization Category of Business Components SummaryEntire Resource Planning Comprehensive MF Theory Comprehensive MF Theory and ERPIntegrating ESs: Future ProspectsReferencesExtended Enterprise Integration in Supply ChainInterenterprise CollaborationSupply Chain Collaboration Service-Oriented Architecture RFID and IoT Agent Workflow ManagementIntegrating Supply ChainExtended Enterprise IntegrationExamples of Recent Research Enterprise Collaboration: An Agent-Based Model VE Collaborative Operation: A Grid-Based ModelSummaryReferencesEnterprise and Supply Chain ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureSupply Chain Modeling and the Relationship with EM and EA Modeling SCM Models in Operations Research, Operations Management, and SCM SCM Models Involving Intraorganizational Interoperation SCM Models Involving Interorganizational Interoperation EM and EA Methods Related to SCMClosing the Gaps between Existing SCM, EM, and EA ModelsSoftware Architecture: An Example of Recent Research Types of Software Architecture Scenario-Based Software Architecture Analysis: A New MethodModeling and Analysis of Workflow for LSCs: An Example of Integrative Modeling of SCM and EM Lean Supply Chain Assumptions Standardization of Collaborating Business Process between Organizations Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Organizational Workflow Application ExampleReferencesInformation Architecture for Enterprise and Supply Chain: A New Discipline of Industrial Information IntegrationIntraorganizational SystemsInterorganizational SystemsModel-Driven ArchitectureService-Oriented ArchitectureInteroperability ModelsIndustrial Information Integration: Examples Multilingual Semantic Interoperation in Interorganizational Enterprise Systems Agricultural Ecosystem Enterprise Information System Water Resource Management Enterprise System Automated Assembly Planning System for Complex Products Railway Signaling Enterprise System Based on IIIEIIIE: A New Discipline of Industrial Information Integration Business Process Management Information Integration and Interoperability EA and EAI Service-Oriented ArchitectureReferencesEnterprise Process Modeling and Workflow ManagementIntroductionWorkflow BasicsIntraorganizational Workflows Modeling Perspectives Modeling TechniquesInterorganizational Workflows Workflow Modeling between Organizations Interaction Models Routing ApproachesWorkflow Analysis Qualitative Analysis Quantitative Analysis Empirical StudyFuture Directions Technical Aspects Managerial AspectSummaryReferencesEnterprise Information Integration Modeling and Integrating Information FlowsData and Information IntegrationRFID: An Emerging Information ArchitectureIoT: An Emerging Internet-Based Information Architecture Introduction IoT-Oriented Infrastructure for Manufacturing Systems Enabling Technologies Ubiquitous Computing RFID Wireless Sensor Networks Cloud Computing More on the Enabling Technologies of IoT Standards Current Research Applications Introduction Industrial Deployment Social Internet of Things Healthcare Applications Infrastructure Security and Surveillance Data Cleaning in IoT Applications Challenges Future Work SOA for Internet of Things Open Problems and Future Directions Technical Challenges Standardization Information Security and Privacy Protection Innovation in IoT Environment Development ApproachesReferencesIndustrial Information IntegrationEnterprise Application Intraorganizational EA Interorganizational EA Integration Requirements New Technology RequirementsIntegration Approaches Syntactic Integration Approaches SOA BPM Middleware-Based Techniques Object-Oriented Technology CORBA DCOM and COM Transaction-Based Technology Semantic Integration ApproachesEnterprise Application Integration Distributed EA Architectures Integration of Distributed EAs Business Process Layer Integration Remote Method Invocation Message-Oriented Middleware Data Layer Integration Communication Layer Integration Presentation Layer Integration Other Integration Technologies J2EE Net Framework Web Services, SOA, and ESB Enterprise Service Bus Future Perspectives Trends Some Research ChallengesSummaryReferencesSystems Approach to Industrial Information IntegrationComplexityDesign ScienceSystems Approach Information Integration: An SSE Perspective Systems Concepts Complex Systems Dimensionality ESs’ Subsystem Integration: Workflow Management ESs’ Subsystem Integration: Manufacturing Systems Inquiring Systems Methodological Development Interdisciplinary Study Selection of Methods Theory for Integrated Information Systems as a Whole SummaryCMFT: A New Theory in Systems Perspectives and Its Implication to IIIEMicroscopic Perspectives: BI in ESs Business Intelligence Supervised Learning Methods Unsupervised Learning ClusteringItemset Mining Opportunities Provided by BI to ESs Process Mining Outlier Detection Graph Data SummaryResilient ESs Enterprise Resilience and Resilient Enterprise SystemsSSE Serves ESsReferencesFuture EvolutionOverviewMajor New Theories Impacting ESs MF TheoryMajor New Technologies Impacting ESs Internet of Things Cloud ComputingOther Methods and Techniques Impacting ESs Software Architecture Methods NetworkingSummary and ChallengesReferencesIndex

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.