Data Mining and Decision Support for business competitiveness: Solomon European virtual enterprise (Sol-Eu-Net)

To enhance competitiveness and find new business opportunities in the global IT market, the objective of this project is to provide access to cutting-edge IT technologies through a proposed model of a Virtual European enterprise composed of companies and research laboratories with highly specialized expertise in two IT areas: Data Mining and Decision Support. The Sol-Eu-Net virtual enterprise will be organized as a flexible network business structure made of small, cross-organizational, time-focused, task-driven work teams, providing problem solutions to end-users in industry, businesses and public services. The objectives of this project are: (1) the development and evaluation of the virtual enterprise model, (2) software for Internet and Intranet based collaborative work, (3) co-operative planning and scheduling of resources, (4) combining problem solutions and consensus building, (5) project monitoring and on-line consultation, as well as (6) new education and training methods, (7) work methods for prototype project workshops and (8) Web information source maintenance.

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Peter Flach, Shaomin Wu, Thomas Gaertner

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Support

This research is supported by the European Union (ESPRIT V IST-1999-11495).