Trust and Distrust in Adaptive Inter-enterprise Collaboration Management

Trust and Distrust in Adaptive Inter-enterprise Collaboration Management

The success and competitive edge of enterprises has become increasingly dependent on the enterprises’ agility to become members in business networks that support their own business strategies. Therefore, integration solutions with their well-weathered strategic networks are no longer sufficient. Instead, there is need for more open business service ecosystems where previously unknown services a...

Automating Decisions for Inter-Enterprise Collaboration Management

The current trend towards networked business forces enterprises to enter federated, loosely-coupled business networks, since much of the competition takes place between networks and value nets. The Pilarcos architecture provides solutions for B2B interoperability middleware to support various kinds of collaboration and cooperation networks by business service discovery and selection, interopera...

Trust management for inter-enterprise collaborations

Enterprise computing is moving towards more open, collaborative systems, which involves issues in technical, semantic and pragmatic interoperability. Trust management focuses on pragmatic problems of whether two enterprises trust each other enough to want to collaborate in the first place, or whether they wish to end an existing endeavour due to perceived risks outweighing the trust between the...

Inter-enterprise collaboration management in dynamic business networks

The agility to collaborate in several business networks has become essential for the success of enterprises. The dynamic nature of collaborations and the autonomy of enterprises creates new challenges for the operational computing environment. This paper describes the web-Pilarcos B2B middleware solutions for managing the life-cycle of dynamic business networks in an inter-enterprise environmen...

Trust, Distrust, and Power