630
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, VOL. 8, NO. 3, AUGUST 2012
Guest Editorial Special Section on Enterprise Systems
E
NTERPRISE SYSTEMS (ES) are also called Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). In the past decade, ES has emerged as a promising tool used for integrating and extending business processes across the boundaries of business functions at both intra and interorganizational levels. Due to the importance of this subject, there has been a growing demand for research about ES. In June 2005, at the IFIP TC8 Meeting held at Guimarães, Portugal, the international committee members intensively discussed the important role played by ES and the innovative and unique characteristics of Industrial Information Integration Engineering (IIIE) as a scientific discipline. At the IFIP 2006 World Computer Congress held in Santiago, Chile, the IFIP TC8 WG8.9 Enterprise Information Systems was established. In 2007, the Enterprise Information Systems Technical Committee was established within the IEEE SMC Society, the first technical committee on ES in IEEE. This emergence of ES has been fueled by the rapid development of information technology including industrial informatics. The advances in industrial information integration methods have spurred tremendous growth in the use of enterprise systems. In this process, a variety of techniques have been used for probing enterprise systems. This Special Section is intended to provide IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS readers an avenue to gain a fresh perspective on ES, an emerging information technology for industrial organizations, as the dialogue among researchers and practitioners in the industrial informatics and ES areas, as well as in the related IEEE societies, are growing. This Special Section includes six papers. The papers by Viriyasitavat et al. developed a service workflow specification language which allows arbitrary services in a workflow to formally and uniformly impose their requirements. They also present a requirement-oriented automated framework for formal verification of service workflows. For the multilingual semantic interoperations in cross-organizational ES, Guo et al. contribute to improving multilingual semantic interoperation by proposing a concept-connected near synonym framework. Yin et al. present a human-machine design methodology based on imaginal thinking which is radically different from traditional logical and intuitive thinking. To automate assembly planning for complex products such as aircrafts, an assembly planning and simulation system was introduced in the paper on AutoAssem which is an integrated system for assembly modeling, planning, and evaluation. Duan’s paper found that Business Intelligence has been intensively applied to Industrial Informatics as evidenced by about 30 related papers published in TII so far. We hope that this Special Section will serve our readers as an avenue to gain a new perspective on ES. We are grateful to the many individual reviewers who worked with us so diligently. ZU DE ZHOU, Guest Editor China Hubei Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Wuhan, 430070 China
[email protected] Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TII.2012.2197004
RICARDO VALERDI, Guest Editor The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0020 USA
[email protected] SHANG-MING ZHOU, Guest Editor Swansea University Swansea, SA2 8PP U.K.
[email protected] Zu De Zhou is the founding Director of the China Hubei Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing. He is the President Emeritus of Wuhan University of Technology. He held Visiting Professor appointments at the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include computer numerical control, intelligent control, digital manufacturing, reliability and fault diagnosis of manufacturing systems, and enterprise systems. He has published extensively in journals including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS. He is the author of the book entitled Fundamentals of Digital Manufacturing Science (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing) in English and Dutch translation edition. Dr. Zhou has been serving as Guest Associate Editor for journals including Computers & Operations Research published by Elsevier.
Ricardo Valerdi (M’95) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, and was a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, a Visiting Associate at the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at USC, and a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Aerospace Corporation. Formerly, he was a Systems Engineer at Motorola and at General Instrument Corporation. Dr. Valerdi is a member of INCOSE and served on its Board of Directors. He is the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation published by Taylor & Francis. Shang-Ming Zhou (M’01) received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China, in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Essex, Essex, U.K., in 2006. He is currently with Swansea University, Swansea, U.K. His research interests include industrial informatics, intelligent control, computational intelligence and applications, and others. He has published extensively in journals including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, among others. Dr. Zhou has served as a member of Program Committees for nearly 40 international conferences and general chairs of numerous international conferences in his research areas. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE.
1551-3203/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE
