Enterprise Integration Laboratory University of Toronto 40 St. George St., Rm 8114, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 Tel: +1-416-978-6823 Fax: +1-416-971-2479 Email: msf@eil.utoronto.ca Updated: 22 November 2005

EIL Theory Knowledge Management Enterprise Modelling Agent Architectures and Coordination Constraint-Directed Scheduling EIL Applications Enterprise Design and Engineering Knowledge-Based Design Integrated Supply Chain Management. Others EIL Alumni EIL Research Papers Future of Enterprise Information Systems

Overview Director: Professor Mark S. Fox For the past ten years, the Enterprise Integration Laboratory has investigated the use of Information Technology to create a business infrastructure enabling the dissemination of information, coordination of decisions, and management of actions to and among people and systems within the organization and outside of it. EIL research explores the creation of Enterprise Integration concepts in a bi-directional manner, in that it is simultaneously theory and application driven; an underlying philosophy to this research is that solving real problems leads to breakthrough research. Our basic research has explored topics such as: Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling, Agent Architectures and Coorindation and Constraint-Directed Scheduling, and applied them to problems such as Supply Chain Management, Knowledge-Based Design and Enterprise Engineering. For information and papers on each of these topics, select the appropriate topics on the side bar. Latest Publications: Fox, M.S., and Huang, J., (2005), "Knowledge Provenance in Enterprise Information", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 4471-4492.