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Bournemouth University
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Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-126-1.CH011
Abstract: Organizations in the new millennium face relentless pressure to perform better, faster and cheaper, while maintaining high level of guaranteed results. To remain competitive, enterprises have to integrate their business processes with those of their customers, suppliers and business partners. Increasing collaboration is not only relevant within a global multi-national enterprise, but also considering the organization and its relationship to and business processes with its business partners. While standards and technologies make it possible for business partners to exchange information, collaborate and carry out business transaction in a pervasive Web environment, there is however very limited research activity on modeling business process outsourcing underlying semantics. In this chapter, we demonstrate that an in-house business process that has been gradually outsourced to third-parties and analyze how task delegations cause commitments between multiple business parties. Finally we provide process semantics for modeling multi-party business process outsourcing.
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 04-2005
Abstract: In the modern business world, business coordinations are becoming complex and global. Contractual relations are required to explicitly define the collaboration between parties, certainly in scenarios with more than two parties. Therefore, execution of multi-party contracts has to be considered a vital point for successful business coordinations. However, there is little known about how to formally model a multi-party contract. The need for a multi-party contract model is thus becoming evident. In this paper, we investigate how to model a contract involving multilateral relations such that finding the responsible parties for given contract violations is facilitated. We provide algorithms for detecting violations and identifying the violator.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4181-5.CH006
Abstract: In this chapter, the authors explore fundamental links between business process management and Web services. The authors discuss how service technologies can extend traditional business process management into a cross-organizational environment (i.e., over Internet) to face the fast changing world. Particularly, the authors discuss the issues of business process modeling for service-oriented business process management.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2021
DOI: 10.1111/ANS.16337
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2003
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2020
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1633/1/012152
Abstract: The data interoperation between VF (virtual factory) platform and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) plays an important role in intelligent factory construction. The study focuses on the integration strategy between the VF and the MES by incorporating VF manufacturing assets in two ways, i.e., vertical integration (used for production line performance evaluation) and the horizontal integration (cloud manufacturing based on manufacturing assets services discovery and their composition). The VF platform which integrates the manufacturing assets in two manners is designed as the bottom layer in the entire integration framework. It has been applied to build a four tiers integration model in an intelligent production system construction of a domestic ship manufacturer and verified its feasibility and availability.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2013
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2007
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Publisher: Services Society
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.CH089
Abstract: The ability to rapidly find potential business partners as well as rapidly set up a collaborative business process is desirable in the face of market turbulence. Collaborative business processes are increasingly dependent on the integration of business information systems. Traditional linking of business processes has a large ad hoc character. Implementing situational enterprise services in an appropriate way will deliver the business more flexibility, adaptability and agility.Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are rapidly becoming the dominant computing paradigm. SOA is now being embraced by organizations everywhere as the key to business agility. Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX on the other hand provide good user interactions for successful service discovery, selection, adaptation, invocation and service construction. They also balance automatic integration of services and human interactions, disconnecting content from presentation in the delivery of the service. Another Web technology, such as semantic Web, makes automatic service discovery, mediation and composition possible. Integrating SOA, Web 2.0 Technologies and Semantic Web into a service-oriented virtual enterprise connects business processes in a much more horizontal fashion. To be able run these services consistently across the enterprise, an enterprise infrastructure that provides enterprise architecture and security foundation is necessary.The world is constantly changing. So does the business environment. An agile enterprise needs to be able to quickly and cost-effectively change how it does business and who it does business with. Knowing, adapting to diffident situations is an important aspect of today’s business environment. The changes in an operating environment can happen implicitly and explicitly. The changes can be caused by different factors in the application domain. Changes can also happen for the purpose of organizing information in a better way. Changes can be further made according to the users’ needs such as incorporating additional functionalities. Handling and managing diffident situations of service-oriented enterprises are important aspects of business environment. In the chapter, we will investigate how to apply new Web technologies to develop, deploy and executing enterprise services.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-06-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1693/1/012049
Abstract: The implementation of MBD/MBE (Model-based Design and Engineering) in the product design and manufacturing can effectively support multi-step data interoperation among “Design-Manufacture-Measurement.” Due to the limited data interoperation functions provided by the current CMM software (Coordinate Measurement Machine), most studies of MBD/MBE focused on designing the upstream. In contrast, the downstream (the underlying measurement data utilization) research is less. MES has an essential function in managing the manufacturing quality that analyses the condition and its development trend by collecting the manufacturing process quality data. Insufficient use of the underlying measurement data will lead to limited MES functions, especially for the capability of decision-making in intelligent manufacturing systems. The paper presents a measurement data interoperation method based on the interoperation layer method to support the quality analysis in MES (Manufacturing Execution System), discusses the relevant critical logic and data processing flow of the layer. It is verified that it can provide more comprehensive measurement data for quality management in the workshop.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-06-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Publisher: IEEE Comput. Soc
Date: 2003
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1997
DOI: 10.1007/BF01258682
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-05-2008
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2022
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.CH196
Abstract: A decade ago, IT — through its innovations in business process reengineering — led the way in breaking down the inefficiencies within companies. Firms in the new millennium now face relentless pressure to perform better, faster, cheaper, while maintaining a high level of guaranteed results. Firms must thus focus on their core competencies and outsource all other activities. Working with a partner, however, requires breaking down the inefficiencies between organizations and coping with frequent change across the entire end-to-end value chain. In this new world of collaborative commerce and collaborative souring, a standard business process is simply inadequate. Using e-contracts to build new business relationships and to fulfill e-contracts through the Internet are important trends. E-contracting is however not a new concept. The history of e-contracting can be reviewed from legal and technology aspects. Over the last 20 years or so, a growing body of research in artificial intelligence has focused on the representation of legislation and regulations (Sergor, 1991). As specific regulations, contracts are used to regulate the actions of twoor multi-party interactions. Gardner (1987) has developed contract formation rules. Her work concerns legislation about the nature of exchanges that lead to contractual relations. The ALDUS project and Legal Expert project investigated drafting the Sale Goods contract (ALDUS, 1992) and the United Nations Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods (Yoshino 1997, 1998), respectively. Detailed information on developing logic-based tools for the analysis and representation of legal contracts can be found in Daskalopulu (1997, 1999). The law regards contracts as collections of obligations research in this area includes automated inference methods, which are intended to facilitate application of the theory to the analysis of practical problems. The purpose of a legal e-contracting system is to clarify and expand an incomplete and imprecise statement of requirements into a precise formal specification. In the early 1990s, the development of EDI (electronic data interchange) was a significant movement for electronic commerce. EDI was considered a term that refers solely to electronic transactions and contracts (Justice Canada, 1995). EDI requires an agreement between trading partners that not only dictates a standard data format for their computerto- computer communications, but also governs all related legal issues of EDI usage. In 1987, the first set of EDI rules was named the Uniform Rules of Conduct for Interchange of Trade Data by Teletransmission (UNCID, 1987). In 1990, the American Bar Association (ABA) published a Model Trading Partner Agreement and Commentary, together with an explanatory report (Winn & Wright, 2001). In 2000 IBM submitted to OASIS (for standardization) the first ex le of an XML-based EDI TPA language, called Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language (tpaML). While the EDI standard introduced efficient communication channels between companies, its implementation was not widely accepted due to its high installation costs, lack of flexibility, and technological limitations (Raman, 1996). With the development of the Internet, electronic contracting began to be interpreted in broader terms. In this new view, an e-contract is not only used as a legally binding agreement between a buyer and seller, but it can also used across different workflow systems to cross different organizational business processes (Koetsier, Grefen, & Vonk, 1999 Kafeza, Chiu, & Kafeza, 2001 Cheung, Chiu & Till, 2002) to integrate different Web services (Cheung et al., 2002, 2003). E-contracting has become synonymous with business integration over electronic networks.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2010
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.JMB.2011.11.018
Abstract: Yersinia entomophaga MH96 is a native New Zealand soil bacterium that secretes a large ABC-type protein toxin complex, Yen-Tc, similar to those produced by nematode-associated bacteria such as Photorhabdus luminescens. Y. entomophaga displays an exceptionally virulent pathogenic phenotype in sensitive insect species, causing death within 72 h of infection. Because of this phenotype, there is intrinsic interest in the mechanism of action of Yen-Tc, and it also has the potential to function as a novel class of biopesticide. We have identified genes that encode chitinases as part of the toxin complex loci in Y. entomophaga MH96, P. luminescens, Photorhabdus asymbiotica and Xenorhabdus nematophila. Furthermore, we have shown that the secreted toxin complex from Y. entomophaga MH96 includes two chitinases as an integral part of the complex, a feature not described previously in other ABC toxins and possibly related to the severe disease caused by this bacterium. We present here the structure of the Y. entomophaga MH96 Chi1 chitinase, determined by X-ray crystallography to 1.74 Å resolution, and show that a ring of five symmetrically arranged lobes on the surface of the Yen-Tc toxin complex structure, as determined by single-particle electron microscopy, provides a good fit to the Chi1 monomer. We also confirm that the isolated chitinases display endochitinase activity, as does the complete toxin complex.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-05-2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/11575863_108
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 05-2010
DOI: 10.1109/ICEE.2010.54
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2010.56
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2007
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-07-2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
Publisher: IEEE Comput. Soc
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/B98797
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 07-12-2011
Abstract: Toxin complex (Tc) proteins are a class of bacterial protein toxins that form large, multisubunit complexes. Comprising TcA, B, and C components, they are of great interest because many exhibit potent insecticidal activity. Here we report the structure of a novel Tc, Yen-Tc, isolated from the bacterium Yersinia entomophaga MH96, which differs from the majority of bacterially derived Tcs in that it exhibits oral activity toward a broad range of insect pests, including the diamondback moth ( Plutella xylostella ). We have determined the structure of the Yen-Tc using single particle electron microscopy and studied its mechanism of toxicity by comparative analyses of two variants of the complex exhibiting different toxicity profiles. We show that the A subunits form the basis of a fivefold symmetric assembly that differs substantially in structure and subunit arrangement from its most well characterized homologue, the Xenorhabdus nematophila toxin XptA1. Histopathological and quantitative dose response analyses identify the B and C subunits, which map to a single, surface-accessible region of the structure, as the sole determinants of toxicity. Finally, we show that the assembled Yen-Tc has endochitinase activity and attribute this to putative chitinase subunits that decorate the surface of the TcA scaffold, an observation that may explain the oral toxicity associated with the complex.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2010
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 07-03-2022
Abstract: The light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana is an invasive, polyphagous pest of horticultural systems around the world. With origins in Australia, the pest has subsequently spread to New Zealand, Hawaii, California and Europe, where it has been found on over 500 plants, including many horticultural crops. We have produced a genomic resource, to understand the biological basis of the polyphagous and invasive nature of this and other lepidopteran pests. The assembled genome sequence encompassed 598 Mb and has an N50 of 301.17 kb, with a BUSCO completion rate of 97.9%. Epiphyas postvittana has 34% of its assembled genome represented as repetitive sequences, with the majority of the known elements made up of longer DNA transposable elements (14.07 Mb) and retrotransposons (LINE 17.83 Mb). Of the 31,389 predicted genes, 28,714 (91.5%) were assigned to 11,438 orthogroups across the Lepidoptera, of which 945 were specific to E. postvittana. Twenty gene families showed significant expansions in E. postvittana, including some likely to have a role in its pest status, such as cytochrome p450s, glutathione-S-transferases and UDP-glucuronosyltransferases. Finally, using a RAD-tag approach, we investigated the population genomics of this pest, looking at its likely patterns of invasion.
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 04-2007
Abstract: To remain competitive, enterprises have to integrate their business processes with their customers, suppliers, and business partners. Increasing collaboration includes not only a global multi-national enterprise, but also an organization with its relationship to and business processes with its business partners. Standards and technologies permit business partners to exchange information, collaborate, and carry out business transactions in a pervasive Web environment. There is however still very limited research activity on modeling multi-party business collaboration underlying semantics. In this article, we demonstrate that an in-house business process has been gradually outsourced to third parties and analyze how task delegations cause commitments between multiple business parties. Finally, we provide process semantics for modeling multi-party collaborations.
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-794-4.CH005
Abstract: The ability to rapidly find potential business partners as well as rapidly set up a collaborative business process is desirable in the face of market turbulence. Traditional linking of business processes has a large ad hoc character. Implementing service-oriented business process mashup in an appropriate way will deliver the collaborative business process more flexibility, adaptability and agility. In this chapter, we describe new landscape for supporting collaborative business processes. The different solutions and tools for collaborative business process applications are presented. A new approach for supporting situational collaborative business process, process-oriented mashup is introduced. We have highlighted the security and scalability challenges of process-oriented mashups. Further, benefits of using process-oriented mashup are discussed.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00082-5
Abstract: A 120-kDa protein was purified from brush border membrane vesicles of the tortricid moth Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) based both on its activity as an aminopeptidase and the ability to bind the Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin Cry1Ac. The purified enzyme had a pI of 5.6 and was a leucine aminopeptidase, with some isoleucine, phenylalanine and tryptophan aminopeptidase activity. Further characterisation showed that the protein was also able to bind Cry1Ba. During purification, the molecular weight of the protein decreased from 120 to 115 kDa due to the loss of a glycophosphatidinyl anchor. The protein was N-terminally sequenced and, using this information and conserved regions within other insect aminopeptidase-N (APN) sequences, redundant primers were designed to lify the aminopeptidase coding sequence from E. postvittana midgut cDNA. The predicted protein sequence from the full-length cDNA was most closely related to the APN protein sequence from Heliothis virescens (61% identity) and shared other features of insect APNs including a Zn(2+) binding site motif and four conserved cysteines. The E. postvittana was expressed in Sf9 cells using baculovirus, yielding a protein of molecular weight 130 kDa, but with unchanged N-terminal sequence. Purified recombinant protein bound both Cry1Ac and Cry1Ba by ligand blot assays. However, despite the protein being expressed on the external surface of the Sf9 cells, it bound neither Cry1Ac nor Cry1Ba in vivo.
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 07-2004
Abstract: Contracts between multiple business parties play an increasingly important role in the global economy where activities along the value chain are executed by independent, yet co-operating, companies. Information technology to enact a value chain is now being deployed in the form of ERP systems, workflow systems, web services and e-marketplaces. However, there is little known on how to formally model a multi-party contract. In this paper, we investigate how to model a multi-party contract in a manner convenient for detecting the parties responsible for contract violations.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 05-2008
DOI: 10.1109/GPC.2009.20
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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