SBA based integration for the extended enterprise

Abstract

Extended enterprises will meet many difficult problems especially when it concerns complex products. For example, it's difficult to share scattered data and control dynamic changing processes. Here we give our solution that uses SBA (Simulated Based Acquisition) thought and ontology to provide complete supports to a long life cycle of complex products. In the grid environment all kinds of resources are composed into a resource tree that is stored in a knowledge base. The interfaces are in the forms of web services that can provide unified visits, and the resources are related to different activities described in a workflow. Everybody concerned in this process can get his/her suitable information from a resource tree that is provided through out the process, operate the resources and get advices from this system at each activity of it. By now a part of prototype system has been implemented.