5th International conference on digital enterprise technology

Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) is more than a concept. Companies are facing new challenges in a context where the references are mostly numerical. Nowadays, digital methods and tools are widely generalized. DET 2008 allowed excellent exchanges about "the collection of systems and methods for the digital modeling and analysis of the global product development and realization process, in the context of lifecycle management". This book of proceedings gives a short view of the keynotes and proposes the text of the papers that have been presented during DET 2008. This gives a clear view of the actual state of the art and of the industrial needs. This book of proceedings is organized with respect to the topics that were addressed during the conference.