The ICEIMT'97 Conference has been a major event of the Enterprise Integration - International Consensus (El-JC) initiative, jointly supported by the European Commission through ESPRIT Project 21.859, and by the United States through the DOC/NIST Manufacturing Enterprise Integration project. The initiative is sponsored by FIAT and both the IFAC and IFIP organisations. I00 experts in the fields of engineering, business administration. and computer science attended the conference. Participation was from 2I countries and all continents with more than one third of the participants from industry. The goal of the initiative is to improve international consensus on issues in enterprise engineering, modelling, and integration technologies. The conference identified barrieiers, proposed solutions, and communicated results, thereby helping to justify the technology to industry so that key technology can be moved profitably from the international R&D domain to broadly based implementation.
Turin, Italy, October 28-30, 1997
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