List of Acronyms
| ADACOR | ADAptive holonic COntrol aRchitecture for distributed manufacturing systems |
| AHT | Average Handling Time |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AmI | Ambient Intelligence |
| ANNs | Artificial Neural Networks |
| ATG | Advanced Technology Group |
| BCI | Brain–Computer Interface |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BMI | Brain–Machine Interface |
| BN | Brain/Neural |
| BP | Business Process |
| BRIC | Brazil, Russia, India and China |
| CAPPs | Computer Aided process Planning |
| CBR | Case-Based Reasoning |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CFM | Continuous Flow Manufacturing |
| CHON | Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen |
| CIVETS | Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa |
| C-MOS | Complementary Metal Oxyde Semi-conductor |
| CP | Combination of Particle |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility (collaborative work) |
| CYC | “enCYClopedia”, CYCorp AI project (Common Sense & ontologies) |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DB | Data Base |
| DES | Discrete Event Simulation |
| DFM | Design For Manufacturing |
| DFS | Design For Sustainability |
| DNA | Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid |
| DNI | Direct Neural Interface |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DRAMs | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DSS | Decision Support Systems |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ERP | Entreprise Resources Planning |
| FBMs | Field Bill of Materials |
| FFBMs | Field Feature Bills of Materials |
| FSNs | Fractal Structured Networks |
| GDP | Growth Domestic Product |
| GMOs | Genetically Modified Organisms |
| GNOSIS | Knowledge Systematisation-European IMS Project |
| GPS | General Positioning System |
| HMS | Holonic Manufacturing System |
| ICTs | Information and Communication Technologies |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMS | Intelligent Manufacturing Systems |
| IS | Information System |
| ITs | Information Technologies |
| JIT | Just-In-Time |
| KADS | Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring |
| KBS | Knowledge-Based Systems |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LBO | Leverage Buy Out |
| LISP | LISt Processing language |
| LMA | Line Manager Advisor (IBM project) |
| LOCs | Lines of Codes |
| LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| MERISE | Méthode d’Étude et de Réalisation Informatique pour les Systèmes d’Entreprises |
| MIDs | Mobile Internet Devices |
| MMI | Mind–Machine Interface |
| MRI | Magnetis Resonance Imaging |
| MTBFs | Mean Time Between Failures |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Reappear |
| NGOs | Non-Governmental Organizations |
| NLDS | NonLinear Dynamic Systems |
| NoSQL | Not only SQL (non-relational DB Language) |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| OMs | Operation Managements |
| OS | Operating System |
| PCs | Personal Computers |
| PLC | Product LifeCycle |
| PLOT | Plant Layout Optimization |
| PMA | Primary Mental Ability |
| PMI | Project Management Institute |
| PPC | Pay Per Call |
| PPT | Pay Per Time |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RAS | Reliability Availability Serviceability |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification |
| ROIs | Returns On Investments |
| RMS | Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| SA | System Analysis |
| SAAS | Software As A Service |
| SD | System Dynamics |
| SICs | Sensitivity to Initial Conditions |
| SIDs | Sensitive Initial Deviations |
| SLA | Service-Level Agreement |
| SMEs | Small Medium Entreprises |
| SOC | Self-Organized Criticality |
| SPQL | Shipped Product Quality Level |
| SRE | Social Responsibility of an Enterprise |
| STI | Synthetic Telepathy Interface |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic Acid |
| TCM | Thermal Control Modules |
| TTL | Transistor-Transistor Logic |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| VFDCS | Virtual Factory Distributed Control System |
| WAIS/WAIS-R | Wechsler test |
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