REA
From Value Network
The Resource-Event-Agent (REA)
REA was originally designed in 1982 for internal accounting in a single company. However, in the 1990's it was expanded to cover economic interactions among many companies in supply chains, and now in value networks.
You can read about it on the inventor's website
External links
- Bill McCarthy's REA papers
- McCarthy's original 1982 REA paper
- REA ontology paper
- A semantic model for Internet supply chain collaboration a little dated and most of the internal links are broken, but still useful
- ISO Accounting and Economic Ontology based on REA
- Beyond the Enterprise: Taking REA to Higher Levels by Bob
- Radically Distributed Supply Chain Systems by Bob
