Scalable structuration management

ASN. 1 is heavily used at the National Center for Biological Information as a format for exporting GenBank data and can be seen as a means for exchanging binary data with a description of its structure. The access concurrency is like flat files just manageable at file level, there is no support for queries, and it lacks on scalability. But because ASN. 1 files convey the description of its stmc-ture, it thus provides the flexibility that the client side does not necessarily need to know the structure of the data in advance (12). 

The multi-agent system approach proposed in this section provides a suitable architecture for rapid and agile response to any event. MCNES is scalable, as there is no overall controller—each organization in the chain or network will have its own agent management structure. 

Ball et al. [8] added to the research on scalability in ERP, specifically as ERP ties in to supply chain management (SCM) structures. They built a scalable supply chain test-bed that consists of the several distinct but integrated components ERP, SCM, a simulation, middleware, and visualization (see Figure 18.4). In the model, each supplier and customer is assumed to have its own ERP system, but they are linked by common end products and use collaboration techniques in their supply chain. The SCM component integrates all of these ERP instantiations. 

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