Goran D. Putnik

Goran D. Putnik received his Dipl. Eng., M.Sci. and Dr.Sci. from the Belgrade University, both M.Sci. and Dr.Sci. in the domain of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. He is currently Associate Professor, at Department of Production and Systems Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal) and teaches, or has taught, a number of subjects in the area of CIM, IMS, Concurrent Engineering, Design Theory, and Virtual Enterprises on undergraduate and post-graduate studies. He served as the Director of the Centre for Production Systems Engineering (CESP) and as the Director of the Master Course on CIM, at the University of Minho. Dr. Putnik’s scientific and engineering interests are manufacturing systems and enterprises design and control theory and implementation, design theory and design engineering, formal theory of production systems and enterprises, and distributed, agile and virtual enterprises. He regularly publishes articles and presents papers on conferences. In last years his special attention is on the topic of Virtual Enterprises for which he organized a research group and a number of research projects and has been also an invited speaker by international research groups.

Publications

Technological Developments in Industry 4.0 for Business Applications
Luis Ferreira, Nuno Lopes, Joaquim Silva, Goran D Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2019. 451 pages.
One of the most important issues businesses face is how to adapt to changing operational and administrative processes. Globalization and high competition highlight the importance...
Emerging Applications in Supply Chains for Sustainable Business Development
M. Vijaya Kumar, Goran D. Putnik, K. Jayakrishna, V. Madhusudanan Pillai, Leonilde Varela. © 2019. 345 pages.
The application of sustainability practices at the system level begins with the supply chain. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to redesign...
Interface for Distributed Remote User Controlled Manufacturing: Manufacturing and Education Sectors Led View
Vesna K. Spasojević Brkić, Goran D. Putnik, Zorica A. Veljkovic, Vaibhav Shah. © 2016. 29 pages.
Recent economic crisis has shown that classical approach to individual and local product oriented company is not sustainable in modern economic reality. Possible solution lies in...
Dashboard Services for Pragmatics-Based Interoperability in Cloud and Ubiquitous Manufacturing
Luís Ferreira, Goran Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Zlata Putnik, Hélio Castro, Catia Alves, Vaibhav Shah. © 2015. 15 pages.
The real Cloud and Ubiquitous Manufacturing systems require effectiveness and permanent availability of resources, their capacity and scalability. One of the most important...
Dashboard Services for Pragmatics-Based Interoperability in Cloud and Ubiquitous Manufacturing
Luís Ferreira, Goran Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Zlata Putnik, Hélio Castro, Catia Alves, Vaibhav Shah. © 2014. 15 pages.
The real Cloud and Ubiquitous Manufacturing systems require effectiveness and permanent availability of resources, their capacity and scalability. One of the most important...
Collaborative Framework for Dynamic Scheduling Supporting in Networked Manufacturing Environments
Maria Leonilde R. Varela, André S. Santos, Ana M. Madureira, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2014. 19 pages.
Scheduling continues to play an important role in manufacturing systems. It enables the production of suitable scheduling plans, considering shared resources between several...
Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for Communication in Virtual Teams
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Patrícia Gonçalves, Joaquim Gonçalves. © 2014. 23 pages.
Several studies have highlighted the relevance of face-to-face communication, suggesting that computer-mediated communication can lead to decreases in group effectiveness and...
The Use of Customer Relationship Management Software in Meta-Enterprises for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, João Varajão. © 2013. 15 pages.
To make the Virtual Enterprise (VE) a real, competitive, and widely implemented organizational and management concept, it is fundamental to assure that the requirements of this...
Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Patricia Gonçalves, Nuno Lopes, Eva Maria Miranda, Goran D. Putnik. © 2012. 956 pages.
Given the widespread, frequent use of social networks as a means for people to communicate and share their interests, it comes as no surprise that they have become an important...
The Use of Customer Relationship Management Software in Meta-enterprises for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, João Varajão. © 2012. 15 pages.
To make the Virtual Enterprise (VE) a real, competitive, and widely implemented organizational and management concept, it is fundamental to assure that the requirements of this...
Towards Effective Tourism Dynamic Packages
Luís Ferreira, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Zlata Putnik. © 2012. 21 pages.
This paper describes the Open Tourism Initiative (OTI) as a framework to support tourism activities, following the Tourism Virtual Enterprise (TVE) organizational model and...
Towards Effective Tourism and People Alignment
Luís Ferreira, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Hélio Castro. © 2012. 20 pages.
The new (e)commerce/(e)business paradigms forced enterprises to undertake important transformations and reorganizations. It happened with the web and will be repeated in the...
Web-based Technologies Integration for Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling in a Virtual Enterprise
Maria Leonilde R. Varela, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2012. 16 pages.
Today’s manufacturing enterprises face enormous competitive pressures stemming from the current dynamic and open business context. Global competition and market demand for...
The Agile and Virtual University
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Eva Miranda. © 2011. 11 pages.
The convergence of information technology developments, together with instructional and pedagogical developments, is creating opportunities for new paradigms of learning and...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2010. 18 pages.
The Virtual Enterprise model relies on dynamically reconfigurable collaborative networks, with extremely high performances, strongly time-oriented while highly focused on cost...
A Changed Economy with Unchanged Universities? A Contribution to the University of the Future
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2010. 22 pages.
Individualised open and distance learning at the universitycontinuing education and post-graduate education levels is a central issue of today. The advanced information and...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2010. 18 pages.
The virtual enterprise model is an emerging approach in answer to the new requirements of the business environment, relying on dynamically-reconfigurable partnerships, with...
Market of Resources for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2010. 7 pages.
Most definitions of virtual enterprise (VE) incorporate the idea of extended and collaborative outsourcing to suppliers and subcontractors in order to achieve a competitive...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2010. 18 pages.
The virtual enterprise model is an emerging approach in answer to the new requirements of the business environment, relying on dynamically-reconfigurable partnerships, with...
A Changed Economy with Unchanged Universities? A Contribution to the University of the Future
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2009. 22 pages.
Individualised open and distance learning at the university continuing education and post-graduate education levels is a central issue of today. The advanced information and...
Technologies to Support the Market of Resources as an Infrastructure for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Joaquim Pereira da Silva, José Paulo Oliveira Santos. © 2009. 21 pages.
The agile/virtual enterprise (A/V E) model is considered a highly dynamic version of the virtual enterprise (VE) model, and its implementation presents several requirements in...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2009. 17 pages.
The Virtual Enterprise model relies on dynamically reconfigurable collaborative networks, with extremely high performances, strongly time-oriented while highly focused on cost...
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2008. 2048 pages.
The virtual enterprise as a new organizational paradigm has three fundamental features: dynamics of network reconfiguration, virtuality, and external entities as environments for...
Technologies to Support the Market of Resources as an Infrastructure for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Joaquim Pereira da Silva, José Paulo Oliveira Santos. © 2008. 21 pages.
The Agile/Virtual Enterprise (A/V E) model is considered a highly dynamic version of the Virtual Enterprise (VE) model, and its implementation presents several requirements in...
The Agile and Virtual University
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Eva Miranda. © 2008. 9 pages.
The convergence of information technology developments, together with instructional and pedagogical developments, is creating opportunities for new paradigms of learning and...
BM_VE Architecture Reference Model for Concurrent Engineering
Antonio José Caulliraux Pithon, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 8 pages.
To support the requirements for the new organizational forms of enterprises, the cooperative work and work groups approach has appeared. Cooperative work may be defined as one...
Broker's Direct Cost and Time Variables and Expressions
Paulo Ávila, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cunha, Ana Madureira. © 2008. 10 pages.
In this work, we will present the direct costs and times of the broker for the resources selection process in our agile/virtual enterprise (A/VE) project designated by BM_Virtual...
Enterprise Cost/Benefit Risk Analysis Using FMEA
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 8 pages.
A large body of knowledge covering enterprise integration architectures, modelling, and methodologies (EIAM&M) has been developed covering various types of enterprises. Most...
Environments for VE Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 9 pages.
Most definitions of virtual enterprise (VE) incorporate the idea of extended and collaborative outsourcing to suppliers and subcontractors in order to achieve a competitive...
Market of Resources: A Cost and Effort Model
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 8 pages.
Partners search and negotiation, selection, establishment of contracts, virtual enterprise integration, monitoring and enforcement of contracts, and so forth are complex and...
Market of Resources: Opportunities Domain
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 7 pages.
In the actual context of fast change, uncertainty, and competition, one of the most important factors of competitiveness is the organizations’ capability of fast adaptability to...
Market of Resources: Supporting Technologies
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Jaoquim P. Silva. © 2008. 7 pages.
The implementation of an organizational model characterized by very high interorganizational dynamics, such as the virtual enterprise (VE) model, presents several requirements in...
Market of Resources for Health Care Teleservices Management
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Ricardo Simões. © 2008. 5 pages.
According to a report on e-marketplaces for the health sector (Kuller, 2005), the European Health and Social Services sector is a complex web of “businesses” and “customers,”...
Market of Resources for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2008. 8 pages.
Most definitions of virtual enterprise (VE) incorporate the idea of extended and collaborative outsourcing to suppliers and subcontractors in order to achieve a competitive...
Taxonomy of Broker's Functions in Virtual Enterprises
Paulo Ávila, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cunha, António Pires. © 2008. 9 pages.
Not just with the emergence but also with the growing of the electronic market, that is, the growth of online suppliers of services and products and Internet users (potential...
Market of Resources as a Knowledge Management Enabler in VE
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2008. 13 pages.
Knowledge is, undoubtedly, an indispensable asset for organizations to compete effectively (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Murray, 2002). New organizational models, such as the virtual...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2008. 20 pages.
The virtual enterprise model is an emerging approach in answer to the new requirements of the business environment, relying on dynamically-reconfigurable partnerships, with...
Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Bruno Conceicao Cortes, Goran D. Putnik. © 2007. 382 pages.
Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions provides an authoritative review of both intra-organizational and...
Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions
Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2007. 368 pages.
Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents a collection of the most recent contributions in the areas of...
A Changed Economy with Unchanged Universities? A Contribution to the University of the Future
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2007. 21 pages.
Individualised open and distance learning at the university continuing education and post-graduate education levels is a central issue of today. The advanced information and...
Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Paulo Silva Ávila. © 2007. 23 pages.
The virtual enterprise model is an emerging approach in answer to the new requirements of the business environment, relying on dynamically-reconfigurable partnerships, with...
Agile Virtual Enterprises: Implementation and Management Support
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 402 pages.
Agile/virtual enterprise (A/VE) is seen as a new and most advanced organizational paradigm, and is expected to serve as a vehicle towards a seamless perfect alignment of the...
Business Requirements and Background
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 24 pages.
Before introducing the Agile/Virtual Enterprise organizational model and all the concepts underlying the topic of Agile/Virtual Enterprise implementation and management support...
A Review on Virtual Enterprise Models
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 55 pages.
In this chapter the most relevant and most discussed virtual enterprise models are introduced in a broader sense: the Supply Chain Management, Extended Enterprise, the Agile...
BM_Virtual Enterprise as an Agile/Virtual Enterprise Model
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 18 pages.
Chapter III presents the BM_Virtual Enterprise (BM_VE) model, as an Agile/Virtual Enterprise, in total or partial conformance with the BM_Virtual Enterprise Architecture...
Requirements for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Intetgration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 34 pages.
This chapter introduces the requirements for Agile/Virtual Enterprise (A/VE) integration, discusses reconfigurability dynamics and business alignment and proposes a virtual...
The Proposal of a Market of Resources
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 11 pages.
A review of VE integration-related literature reveals that although considerable research has been undertaken focusing on selection of cooperation partners, development of...
Information and Communication Technologies: Current Developments
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 47 pages.
“The introduction of reliable, low-cost electronic computers into the economy was the most revolutionary technical innovation of the twentieth century” (Freeman & Soete, 1997, p....
Traditional Technologies to Support Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 18 pages.
Since the mid-nineties, a considerable number of research and development projects and industrial initiatives have been undertaken to define infrastructures and supporting...
The Organizational Model for a Market of Resources
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 86 pages.
This chapter presents a complete specification of the Market of Resources, to allow a complete understanding of how is this environment able to support the implementation and...
Development o the Market of Resources
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 14 pages.
In earlier chapters we have presented the main information and communication technologies and applications that can be used to implement functionalities of the Market of...
Performance Analysis
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 38 pages.
Chapter VII discussed how traditional Internet-based technologies could support Agile/Virtual Enterprise integration. Chapter VIII presented the specification of the Market of...
Market of Resources: Exploitation and Future Trends
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 26 pages.
Electronic Marketplaces (e marketplaces) appear to be a promising solution to B2B e-commerce, however its role, as well as the role of other solutions we have identified that can...
Market of Resources as a Knowledge Management Enabler in VE
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2006. 11 pages.
Knowledge is, undoubtedly, an indispensable asset for organizations to compete effectively (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Murray, 2002). New organizational models, such as the virtual...
Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2005. 454 pages.
Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise...
Business Alignment in Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2005. 29 pages.
The concept of strategic alignment between business strategy and technology is essential for improving competitiveness. The driving force of business is to fully satisfy customer...
Market of Resources for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik. © 2005. 8 pages.
Fast change, uncertainty, and strong competition are challenges of the actual worldwide economic context. Competitiveness is a main requirement of enterprises, whose satisfaction...
Virtual Enterprise Integration: Challenges of a New Paradigm
Goran D. Putnik, Maria M. Cunha, Rui Sousa, Paulo Avila. © 2005. 31 pages.
Virtual enterprise integration (VEI) is virtually the most critical success factor for making virtual enterprise (VE) a real, competitive, and widely implemented organizational...
Business Alignment Requirements and Dynamic Organizations
Maria M. Cunha, Goran D Putnik. © 2005. 24 pages.
The business environment of today’s demands organizations to be permanently aligned with the market. As knowledge and physical resources associated to the development and...
BM_Virtual Enterprise: A Model for Dynamics and Virtuality
Goran D Putnik, Maria M. Cunha, Rui Sousa, Paulo Avila. © 2005. 21 pages.
BM_virtual enterprise (BM_VE) is a virtual enterprise (VE) in a total or partial conformance with the BM_virtual enterprise architecture reference model (BM_VEARM). BM_VE is a...
Market of Resources as a Virtual Enterprise Integration Enabler
Maria M. Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Angappa Gunasekaran, Paulo Avila. © 2005. 21 pages.
The search for increased competitiveness and efficiency during the last decade resulted in several organizational approaches that presented flexibility as a main characteristic....
Broker Performance for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
Paulo Avila, Goran D. Putnik, Maria M. Cunha. © 2005. 20 pages.
The implementation of the virtual enterprise (VE) model requires an agent, called a broker, who undertakes several functions and whose increased performance contributes to the...
Information Technology Infrastructure and Solutions
Maria M. Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Joaquim Silva. © 2005. 15 pages.
Agile and virtual enterprise (A/VE) is a leading organisational model characterized by a high flexibility and a fast reconfigurability or adaptability of the networked structure...
Market of Resources as an Environment for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Dynamic Integration and for Business Alignment
Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, A. Gunasekaran. © 2003. 22 pages.
We are assisting to a shift from traditional “self-centred closed-enterprises” to “global open-enterprises,” corresponding to the recent Agile/Virtual Enterprise (A/V E) model....