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UML-based virtual enterprise modeling method

  • Da Yong Zhang*
  • , Xiao Fei Xu
  • , Gang Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Virtual enterprise modeling (VEM) is regarded as the basic support for studies on virtual enterprises. A UML-based VEM(VEM-UML) method, is put forward. This modeling method leads the key modeling concepts of VEM into UML by extending the new metaclasses and stereotypes. The extension together with the inherent properties of UML makes the VEM-UML an efficient virtual enterprise modeling language. A virtual enterprise for designing and manufacturing helicopters is modeled to prove the effectiveness of VEM-UML in modeling virtual enterprises. Compared with the traditional enterprise modeling methods, the advantages of the VEM-UML method are highlighted in modeling virtual enterprises. Finally, the mapping mechanism from the VEM modeling concepts to the UML modeling elements is presented to provide VEM an abstract syntax and semantics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)515-521
Number of pages7
JournalJisuanji Jicheng Zhizao Xitong/Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, CIMS
Volume8
Issue number7
StatePublished - Jul 2002

Keywords

  • Agile virtual enterprise
  • Enterprise modeling
  • UML
  • Virtual enterprise model (VEM)

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