Recent advances in engineering collaboration tools and internet technology have enabled the distribution of product development tasks to offshore sites and global outsourcing partners while still maintaining a tightly connected process. Most firms in complex engineering industries are indeed...

This case study describes how UPS has successfully migrated from a bricks-andmortar environment to a clicks-and- mortar environment. It focuses on the development of an IT capability that positioned UPS to aggressively pursue e-business opportunities. It then describes the firm?s wide ranging...

This paper describes the coupling of contexts and ontologies for semantic integration in the ECOIN semantic interoperability framework. Ontological terms in ECOIN correspond to multiple related meanings in different contexts. Each ontology includes a context model that describes how a generic...

"Appeared in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '92), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 1992"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [39]-[42]).