The external intelligent infrastructure

Abstract

Intelligent Infrastructures play an increasingly important role in the formation and operation of Extended Enterprises (EE), Virtual Organizations (VO) and Collaborative Businesses (CB). The main purpose of an Intelligent Infrastructure is to provide an interoperable platform for bridging the gaps between methodologies, delivery approaches, and continuous business solutions in such enterprises and organizations. This paper discusses what is meant by an intelligent infrastructure, and the state-of-the-art results as delivered by the EXTERNAL project, EU IST-1999-10091. The Intelligent Infrastructure is a platform for distributed, model-generated workplaces, concurrent development and management of models and meta-constructs, methodologies and customer solutions. Focus is on the services provided by the infrastructure, the structures of enterprise knowledge supporting them, and the contributions of Active Knowledge Modelling technology. © 2004 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.