Authors:
Nick Szirbik
and
Paul Buijs
Affiliation:
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Function-driven Development, Logistic Coordination and Control, Networked System Integration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
;
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
;
Scheduling and Planning
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
We propose a line of research for road freight logistics that may deliver novel enterprise information system (EIS) architectures, procedures, and novel ways of applying existing technology, with the direct objective of enabling and making more efficient a variation of an existing logistic scenario, which is presented to some extent in this position paper. We argue that the enabling and support of this setting via appropriately identified, tested, and practitioner-validated EIS functions may have the effect of increasing the load factors in palletized road freight, as well as allowing mass Just-in-time (JIT) trans-shipment from small scale suppliers and delivery to small scale end-customers.