Title
An interorganizational IT infrastructure for self-organization in logistics: Situation awareness and real-time chain composition
Author
Hofman, W.J.
Punter, L.M.
Bastiaansen, H.J.M.
Cornelisse, E.
Dalmolen, S.
Palaskas, Z.
Karakostas, B.
Gato, J.
Garcia, J.
Herrero, G.
Gonzalez-Rodrigues, M.
Publication year
2016
Abstract
To meet the challenges for more sustainable, effective and efficient transport services in global logistics, a new IT-paradigm is needed to harvest the opportunities that capabilities for situation awareness and real-time chain composition provide. The iCargo project provides such an advanced, highly distributed, IT infrastructure with, as fundamental features: - a highly distributed “system-of-systems” implementation with a minimum of centralized functionality, referred to as the “Hybrid Services Network” (HSN); - virtualization of the IT infrastructure (HSN) to shield the user from the complexities of the highly distributed implementation through the use of “access points”; - seamless interoperability by means of semantic technology deployed through semantic gateways. This paper elaborates these aspects of an interorganizational IT infrastructure for logistics. Additionally, the migration towards this innovative and advanced infrastructure is addressed.
Subject
Communication & Information
MNS - Media & Network Services
TS - Technical Sciences
Access point
Entity centric
Real-time chain composition
(Semantic) interoperability
Situation awareness
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/2287108x.2016.1195101
TNO identifier
745740
Source
International Journal of Advanced Logistic, 5 (2), 101-115
Document type
article