楊哲彥

Virtual enterprising is viewed as one of the most promising business strategies for manufacturing industries to meet global competition. The essence of virtual enterprising is to integrate the processes, activities, and resources from different enterprises through enterprise alliance to quickly respond to customer expectations. The management and sharing of knowledge across enterprises is the basis for virtual enterprising. However, there is no commercially available knowledge management system suitable for storing, integrating, managing, and sharing knowledge in a virtual enterprise environment. Hence, the goal of virtual enterprise is still far from reached. 　　The objective of this research is to develop a collaborative knowledge management system framework to facilitate communication, coordination and knowledge sharing in a virtual enterprise environment, and consequently help increase productivity and competitiveness of enterprises. 　　The objective can be obtained by: (1) modeling an object-oriented knowledge model for storing, sharing and searching of knowledge, (2) designing a knowledge entity tag for knowledge representation and abstraction, as well as integration with business processes, (3) developing a collaborative system framework for development of knowledge management systems for virtual enterprising.