Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support Infrastructures: Applying Multi-agent System Approaches

Emerging Applications of the New Paradigm of Intelligent Decision Making Process: Hybrid Decision Support Systems for Virtual Enterprise (DSS-VE)

“…In the literature (Camarinha-Matos, Afsarmanesh, 2001; Camarinha-Matos, 1998), there are presented different types of classification for VEs according to the following aspects: duration (lifespan of the organization); the topology of the network; the flexibility of the structure; the level/ type of participation (a partner could participate in just one VE or several VEs simultaneously); the type of coordination (centralized coordination, democratic alliances, federation of partners) where the partners achieve their goals by creating a joint coordination structure; the visibility scope (related to typology and coordination/ dependencies among the partners).…”

Service Level Agreement Management in Federated Virtual Organizations

“…whether the virtual organization is a temporary organizational structure like a consortium or a more permanent structure such as a partnership [7]. The virtual organization in practice requires means of either aggregating the SLAs to determine the composite SLA for the whole service (offers-based approach) or using the external SLA in the contractual agreement with the customer to make negotiation demands on the potential members in the virtual organization (reverse-auctioning approach).…”

A Collaborative Framework to Realize Virtual Enterprises Using 3APL

“…In [3], a consortium of companies is called a Virtual Enterprise (VE) which allows for the development of a working environment to manage all or part of different resources towards achieving a common goal. Common information definition and sharing problem while forming Virtual Enterprises are discussed in [4].…”