Enterprise Integration Educational and Research Groups

The following are educational and government-funded bodies who are doing R&D on Enterprise Models and/or Enterprise Integration.

• MIT Center for Coordination Science at The Massacheusetts Institute of Technology provides a "Process Handbook", an extensive online knowledge base including entries for over 5000 business activities, and a set of software tools for managing this knowledge.

• CIFE Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University. is in the forefront of engineering design software and their annual summer program is a great way to find out what is going on in automation of plant engineering.

• Enterprise Intergation Laboratory at the University of Toronto is an good source of information on ontological models.

• IMS Intelligent Manufacturing Systems project is "an international research and development program established in 1995 to develop the next generation of manufacturing and process technologies". IMS is supported by the governments of 28 countries of the European Union, Mexico and the United States.
• Zachman International is a private educational institute, rather than a government or industry-supported body. ZI provides education and research on the Zachman Enterprise Integration Framework".
• Obsolete Educational, Industry and GovernmentL R&D Groups provides a list of bodies who did R&D on Enterprise Models and/or Enterprise Integration in the past, and whose results and documentation are still available online.

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