Collaborative modeling and simulation for order management in virtual enterprise

Collaborative modeling and simulation takes strong advantages of resource sharing across the Internet for the extended enterprise or virtual enterprise. Collaborative graphical modeling shows more attractiveness and difficulties when applied in web. One solution to integrate 2D-graphical modeling and web online analyzer is brought up and a prototype is realized through campus network. An order management model is designed collaboratively using modeling tool of EXTEND to map the operation in scheduling, production and transportation of a geographically distributed iron ore enterprise. The distributed managers can submit orders and then get the simulation results online from a web online analyzer which realized by apache web server, PHP and mySQL tools. The prototype shows effective experimental results. It will be studied more in creating complete model base for simulation server and graphical user interface for browsers.