EPM's R&D awards 2000

EPM has been awarded the following projects that will run from 2000-2002:

Norwegian R&D project Apotram, which seeks to implement the next generation of transaction system on top of EXPRESS Data Manager.

IST project MERCI which will develop e-commerce for the Management, Exchange and Represen-tation of (semi-conductor) Component Information. The system will be based on ISO 13584 (P-LIB) and will reuse Esprit CIREP results.

IMS project GLOBEMEN aims at Global Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise Networks. It is sponsored through IST but is also part of the global IMS program. GLOBEMEN will reuse results from the Globeman21 project. The project had its international kick-off in Finnish Lapland. More information can be found on http://globemen.vtt.fi/ IST project E-CONSTRUCT aims at developing a business to business language for the building and construction industry using the emerging eXtende Markup Language (XML). The system will be closely linked to the IFC specification developed by IAI.