DIMS: Implementation of a Federated Information Management System for PRODNET II

The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support infrastructure for Industrial Virtual Enterprises (VEs). The Distributed Information Management system (DIMS) component of the PRODNET architecture supports the complex VE information management requirements and is based on a federated database architecture. In the design of DIMS, general concepts of federated database systems are specifically tailored and adapted to the specificities of the VE paradigm. In previous work, the federated information management requirements for industrial collaborative VE environments have been systematically analyzed. This analysis has identified the required data models and data manipulation operations for the PRODNET application domain. Based on this analysis, the need for federated sharing and exchange of information among the VE enterprises, while preserving their autonomy wi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: DEXA
• Authors: César Garita, Yasemin Ugur, Anne Frenkel, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Louis O. Hertzberger
• Keywords: Database, DEXA 2000, Federated, Federated Database, Federated Database Architecture